America tends to not react, then over-react. Right now we are over reacting to what was, let's face it, the wild west attitude of corporate America with a bumbling bureaucratic juggernaut. In the 70's insecticides were routinely sprayed on workers while in the fields....
here's a nice ad....
And an editorial-
"The blithe willingness to sprinkle DDT on everything from the barley to the baby, celebrated so colorfully in this advertisement, led in just a few years to widespread insecticide resistance among malaria-carrying mosquitoes. In Sri Lanka, Gordon Harrison observed[2] that
Anopheles culifacies, completely susceptible to DDT when the spray stopped in 1964 was now [in 1968] found resistant presumably because of the use of DDT for crop protection in the interim. Within a couple of years, so many culifacies survived that despite the spraying malaria spread in 1975 to more than 400,000 people.
This pattern was repeated in many places. If governments had paid more attention to Rachel Carson in the 1960s, this weapon against malaria might have retained its potency. "
We need more regulation than was in place, and less than we have now. Story of how things happen in the US.
But you know, not sure I miss the days when ads had to carry disclaimers like this...
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