In what some would see as a "policy turnaround", the Canadian Cancer Society {CCA] has finally grown some balls and is speaking out about the cancer-causing effects of pesticides.
The CCA is urging municipalities across New Brunswick to ban the use of pesticides on residential and public property.
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Of course, there is a corporate interest saying the one thing most dangerous for cancers:
"no pesticide used in Canada is known to cause cancer"
- this is based on the idea that there is no easy way to prove such a link, and that no effort has been put into trying to find out!!
They simply don't include the information that shows people exposed to the pesticides GET cancers, its just impossible to show the mechanism, and so they say that means "no proof".
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So it is obviously a bogus statement made by a corporate interest.. all the others are saying it now - that pesticides DO cause cancers, and you can be the corporate side is angry with the CCA.
A big pat on the back of the CCA for finally doing this. They have played down the pesticide link to cancer for many years now, so that makes this even tougher to do.
Good on them - the CBC program must have embarrased them.
"Cancer society pushing pesticide ban " - April 2006
http://www.cbc.ca/nb/story/nb_banpests20060312.html
The CCA is urging municipalities across New Brunswick to ban the use of pesticides on residential and public property.
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Of course, there is a corporate interest saying the one thing most dangerous for cancers:
"no pesticide used in Canada is known to cause cancer"
- this is based on the idea that there is no easy way to prove such a link, and that no effort has been put into trying to find out!!
They simply don't include the information that shows people exposed to the pesticides GET cancers, its just impossible to show the mechanism, and so they say that means "no proof".
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So it is obviously a bogus statement made by a corporate interest.. all the others are saying it now - that pesticides DO cause cancers, and you can be the corporate side is angry with the CCA.
A big pat on the back of the CCA for finally doing this. They have played down the pesticide link to cancer for many years now, so that makes this even tougher to do.
Good on them - the CBC program must have embarrased them.
"Cancer society pushing pesticide ban " - April 2006
http://www.cbc.ca/nb/story/nb_banpests20060312.html