The follow-on attack targeted the DDT pesticides, which likewise have never killed a single person as they were specifically developed for their extraordinary quality of being nontoxic to humans.  With the first victory in the bag, this follow on ban was eventually successful after a ten year fight, while the costs incurred became infinitely greater.  At this point, however, the public's consciousness had been sufficiently disabled so that it would accept the ban in spite of the murderous consequences.

The cost of the DDT ban is quite huge in financial terms, as the so-called replacement pesticides are much more expensive and less effective.  Still, the financial cost is minute in comparison to the substantial losses in food crops that result from the ban.  As the so-called replacement chemicals cannot prevent these losses, the losses in food production are killing millions of people annually through increased starvation.  Some would call this murder.  These losses need to be judged by the known production increases that were achieved when DDT was put into use in the U.S., where reliable data had been compiled, where "cotton, peanuts, and potatoes harvests increased 60-119 percent,... and the production of alfalfa seed increased from 300 to 600 percent."

On top of the indirect killing that results from the reduced protection of food crops, comes the more direct murdering of human beings as their prime defense against insect born diseases has been eliminated.

It is reported by some researchers that the banning of the DDT chemical is currently killing upwards to three million people annually in the world's tropical areas where insect born disease can no longer be effectively combated through insect control.  Dr. Edward G. Remmer, president of the American Council for Science and Health stated in 1992, "The restricted availability of DDT results in over a million unnecessary deaths per year and 100 to 200 million cases of malaria in places such as Africa and India."  The Executive Intelligence Review reports, "In India, before DDT, there were more than 100 million cases of malaria and the disease killed 2.5 million people each year.  After the government initiated a DDT spraying program, the number of cases dropped to fewer than 100,000, with fewer than a thousand deaths per year."*(Mazel Hecht, The DDT ban: ecologism as a weapon of mass destruction, EIR Sept. 8 1995, p.17)  A similar pattern was reported for Sri Lanka, with the added comment, "When the spraying stopped, the malaria rates again climbed into the millions."

Dr. J. Gordon Edwards, Professor of Entomology at San Jose State University in California, states, "If you consider just malaria alone, we can say that at least 10 million people die yearly from Malaria.  If you add in all the other preventable and treatable diseases which all take their toll, and then you add in starvation and malnutrition and the effects of general weakening, then directly or indirectly 100 million men, woman, and especially children die every year as a result of the successful anti-DDT campaign."

Dr. Dixy Lee Ray states in her 1993 book, Environmental Overkill p.76, "DDT prevented more human death and disease than any other man-made chemical in all of human history."

The real reason for the ban, as a certain Dr. Remmer points out, is not to save human life and health.  He stated in 1992, "Most of those opposing DDT today have a strong anti-science, anti-population orientation, calling either for zero population growth or a reduction to 1 billion persons globally.  To these individuals, the restricted availability of DDT furthers their intended policy of genocide."

Dr. Dixy Lee Ray comments on the food related aspect of this anti-DDT genocide, "Given the extraordinary success of high yield agriculture, why are there so many attacks upon it?  Would the opponents and critics prefer that less food be grown?  I believe the answer to this question is 'yes.'"*(All quotes are from 21st Century, Fall 1994 p.47-54)

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