![]() ![]() In the case of the gypsy moth the populations were already well controlled before the government launched a program to spray several million acres of land with organic insecticides on a yearly basis. There are many accounts of men, women, and children being soaked by passing planes, unaware of what the long term effects on their health would be. Both involved raining gallons upon gallons of toxins down from the sky onto our yards, crops, livestock, and gardens. Two major programs in this chapter were those against the gypsy moth and the fire ant. Directing the control, divisions of the Department of Agriculture has been “the-ends-justify-the-means philosophy” for far too long, with the misuse of insecticides as one of her most recent examples. From planes, a variety of insecticides showered onto the earth, towns, cities, forests, and fields including those without a pest problem. ![]() The care, originally taken regarding the use of toxic chemicals, was all but discarded. Rachel Carson discuses the wide use of organic insecticides beginning with the introduction and surplus of planes from both world wars. A brief summary of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring Chapter 10 by Jessica Stottlar ![]()
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