Mercury clean up

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Originally Posted by andysutherland

Not trying to start a debate or anything, Scott, but DDT has saved billions of lives. I'd go without eggs if it meant billions not dying from malaria. BTW, there is also no proven link between DDT and cancer. I couldn't tell you about cancer and mercury, though.
End thread jack.

Andy, the egg thing doesn't have any connection to cancer (and I didn't know there was even controversy as to ddt being a carcinogen).
DDT gets in the environment, then gets in the animals.
It causes the shells of eggs to become very fragile. This goes for all egg laying critters.
As a result, the eggs break, and no baby critters.
That's all good proven stuff.
I don't think we disagree at all. It had it's time, and it did a lot of damage that's been reversed by it's discontinuation.
There's new more gooder stuff nowadays that doesn't cause the damage DDT did. It's cause we got a bit smarter. I hope.
I'm all for chemicals, by the way. I just use stuff I'm not afraid to drink.
I spend a lot of time reading all the little black letters on the white paper, not that it helps, but the things I use are stuff that hasn't killed me yet.