Animal "rights" revisited

I've met the odd lunatic in my time - oops, sorry, I meant vegetarian. Inevitably there will be some sloppy thinking about "we are all animals" or "morally we are no better than animals if we eat them" or other sentimental tripe. However they're usual willing enough to take medication that's been tested on animals. Which brings me to today's story. A malaria treatment that's been tested on animals looks like a break-through - http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/ ... ch.malaria

Or we could always revert to using DDT, which was well on the way to wiping out malaria until Rachel Carson's sloppy research got published - http://www.junkscience.com/ddtfaq.html

[Aunty]

I've met the odd lunatic in my time - oops, sorry, I meant vegetarian. Inevitably there will be some sloppy thinking about "we are all animals" or "morally we are no better than animals if we eat them" or other sentimental tripe. However they're usual willing enough to take medication that's been tested on animals. Which brings me to today's story. A malaria treatment that's been tested on animals looks like a break-through - http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/ ... ch.malaria

Or we could always revert to using DDT, which was well on the way to wiping out malaria until Rachel Carson's sloppy research got published - http://www.junkscience.com/ddtfaq.html

Of course, Beryl, you'd know about sloppy with your penchant for licking dirty arseholes! As for the quality and meaning of other peoples research, (or lack thereof) I don't think you'd know much at all.

But nobody figured it out until almost every country in the world had banned it.

Millions of people died, and billions of mosquitoes lived. Way to go, Rachel.

[RonanTheBarbarian]

"But nobody figured it out until almost every country in the world had banned it.

Millions of people died, and billions of mosquitoes lived. Way to go Rachel."

DDT was never banned for use for disease control in any country, you fool.

It was banned for crop pest control in virtually every country, but none banned its use in malaria control.

In the US and UK, that meant that DDT disappeared, as malaria control was not a factor in those countries.

But India used DDT so much in the 1950's to 1990s that the mosquitos there have now developed a resistance to it.