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Prime Minister of Kenya Urged to Ban Lion-Killing Pesticide After Child Dies From Ingestion
Offbeat  (tags: animals, pesticides, child, death, protection, Furadan, environment )

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- 45 days ago - news.mongabay.com
On Monday October 26th a three-year-old girl mistakenly ate the pesticide Furadan (also known as carbofuran) in western Kenya. Her father, a teacher at a primary school, said that he had no knowledge of how dangerous the pesticide was, which he had
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Bee Hive Lady (342)
Tuesday November 10, 2009, 10:56 am
Terrible, pesticides should be banned. They mean death to so many creatures, including ourselves. All the new sugar substitutes started out as pesticides, And who, can forget Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring", DDT a pesticide was killing all of our birds. The Prime Minister of Kenya must act on this -- it is truly urgent now that a ckild has also died.
 

Past Member (0)
Tuesday November 10, 2009, 11:39 am
Have we not learned a darn thing about killing pesticides generation after generation? If there was regard to any particular form of life here. They would have not put it out in the first place!! Humans are the pests sad to say.
 

Glenda Jasper (139)
Tuesday November 10, 2009, 12:45 pm
It's saddens us all that we have to everyday read things as this but reality has hit the ban wagon and our courageous behavior will stand together as ONE
 
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