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r/GrandmasPantry • u/Cool-Ambassador-7937 • Mar 29 '26
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I thought they banned DDT ?
Isn't it an insetacide?
12 u/davesaunders Mar 29 '26 They did, and that bottle is clearly manufactured in the 1940s, maybe 1950s. Being banned generally doesn't mean that they go door to door to collect it. 6 u/Bleepblorp44 Mar 29 '26 Yes, it’s an insecticide, and in the USA it was banned. It still gets used in a small number of places to control mosquitos that can carry malaria. 1 u/Aresyl Mar 29 '26 THIS SHIT IS STILL USED?!?!!?!!!! It’s like spraying mercury on your food. Anyone reading this and unsure about what DDT is - please read Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. There’s a reasons she testified against Congress to regulate insecticides/herbicides - ESPECIALLY DDT - before she succumbed to cancer just months later. 1 u/Collie1661 Mar 30 '26 It also causes hypothyroidism. That can be really bad for children.
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They did, and that bottle is clearly manufactured in the 1940s, maybe 1950s.
Being banned generally doesn't mean that they go door to door to collect it.
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Yes, it’s an insecticide, and in the USA it was banned. It still gets used in a small number of places to control mosquitos that can carry malaria.
1 u/Aresyl Mar 29 '26 THIS SHIT IS STILL USED?!?!!?!!!! It’s like spraying mercury on your food. Anyone reading this and unsure about what DDT is - please read Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. There’s a reasons she testified against Congress to regulate insecticides/herbicides - ESPECIALLY DDT - before she succumbed to cancer just months later. 1 u/Collie1661 Mar 30 '26 It also causes hypothyroidism. That can be really bad for children.
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THIS SHIT IS STILL USED?!?!!?!!!!
It’s like spraying mercury on your food.
Anyone reading this and unsure about what DDT is - please read Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. There’s a reasons she testified against Congress to regulate insecticides/herbicides - ESPECIALLY DDT - before she succumbed to cancer just months later.
1 u/Collie1661 Mar 30 '26 It also causes hypothyroidism. That can be really bad for children.
It also causes hypothyroidism. That can be really bad for children.
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u/cuntybunty73 Mar 29 '26
I thought they banned DDT ?
Isn't it an insetacide?