Pesticides
Sir,—l hope at least some of those who read, on Saturday, the advice of D.S.I.R's Mr A. D. Lowe to home gardeners to load up their e prayers and wage war on aphides will turn up Rachel Carson’s series of three articles in the “New Yorker” (June 16, 23, 30) on the wide and increasing use of chemical pesticides. The epray Mr Lowe recommends to home gardeners may be among the safest of the many available, including the one which only farmers and commercial growers are permitted to use, “because of health dangers," as he says. But Miss Carson shows, from a wealth of evidence, that these dangers are greater and more pervasive than has been supposed and amount to the poisoning of man’s environment, his water supplies, his foodstuffs, his allies in Nature as well as his enemies and bis own body.—Youirs. etc.. BORGIA. November 18. 1962.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29985, 21 November 1962, Page 9
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