CHAPTER 11 - The Best Control 2

the gender-confusing powder onto other males who are attracted to the sex pheromone and the cycle continueson and on.Black’s Law Dictionary defines “intoxication” as a situation where, by reason of taking intoxicants, an individualdoes not have the normal use of his physical or mental faculties, thus rendering him incapable of acting in themanner in which an ordinary, prudent and cautious man, in full possession of his faculties, using reasonable care,would act under like conditions. About 6,000 new synthetic chemicals are added to our environment in just theU. S. every year! Today we have 500 chemicals residing in us that were not there in 1920; we have become full oftoxins - intoxicated - only apparently we can’t sober up! To add even more toxic, volatile poisons to this cesspoolwe carry is truly absurd! Especially if these volatile poisons do not even control the target pests! Obviously, weno longer have the normal use of our faculties. It is time to get clean and sober and use some Pestisafes ® !INTELLIGENT PEST MANAGEMENT ®The Art of War - In any war, one must have a sword (an offensive weapon) and a shield (defensive protection)- when we choose to only use volatile, synthetic pesticide poisons to “control” pests, we have no shield, noprotection and our only “weapon” is attacking us and not our enemy.In our ongoing war against home and garden pests, over 70 million American households make more than4 billion pesticide applications each and every year. At least 85% of Americans or 84.5 million householdsmaintain a poison arsenal of at least 3-4 synthetic poisons ranging from no pest strips, pesticidal shampoos,aerosols, granules, liquids and dusts. There are over 21,000 different over-the-counter household syntheticpesticide poison products containing over 300 active ingredients and as many as 1,700 “inert” ingredients per a1990 EPA study prepared by Research Triangle Institute. The “National Home & Garden Pesticide Use Survey”found at least 75% of all American households use insecticide poisons, and consider cockroaches and ants astheir leading pest enemies.In 1993, there were over 140,000 reported pesticide poison exposures; 93% of these involved home poisonuse reported nationwide to poison control centers - about 25% had (acute) pesticide poisoning symptoms (overhalf involved children under 6).The Chinese Sage, Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War” written in China 500 B.C. clearly warned: “There has neverbeen a protracted war from which a country has benefited.”Since the 1940s advent of volatile, synthetic pesticide poisons we have waged a protracted war againstpest populations and now our air, water, food, mother’s milk, blood, and adipose tissue all “normally”contain significant residues of these poisons, their metabolites, their “inerts” and contaminates! Wehave suffered an ever-increasing array of health effects, damages, and deaths - yet our pest “enemy” continuesnot only to flourish, but to increase. We have continually killed our own allies (the beneficials), poisoned ourown water, air, and food and, thereby, sickened, wounded or killed ourselves and our own forces and continuallyignored our enemy’s natural weaknesses and engaged in warfare using only one (useless) weapon! Wehave totally forgotten how to protect ourselves and how to successfully wage war on our pest enemy. In 1950fewer than 20 species of insects showed signs of synthetic pesticide resistance. In 1960 Rachel Carson haddocumented 137 species were resistant to at least one pesticide poison and noted it was the early rumblings ofan avalanche of synthetic pesticide resistance. By 1990 the number of documented pesticide-resistant insectand mite species was 504 and, obviously, is still increasing. In addition to insects and mites, we have manyother pesticide resistances developing, e.g., bacteria, fungus, weeds, etc.In 1993, 1 in 7 Americans got cancer. We now have spent $25 billion on cancer research (a river of gold),now 1 out of every 2 (or more) Americans will get cancer breast; cancer will be the #1 killer and prostatecancer will be the #2 killer of Americans! When I wrote this at least one in eight women was doomed toget breast cancer. Since 1960 - 2000, more than 950,000 women had died from breast cancer and almost halfof these deaths had occurred in the last 10 years! Putting this in perspective - only 617,000 Americans havedied in all the wars our country has fought during the 20th Century! Unless we desire death of our own race, wemust stop releasing tons of virtually untested, unstable, synthetic pesticide poisons that are creating a synergistic388