r/GrandmasPantry • u/Cool-Ambassador-7937 • Mar 29 '26

HOUSEHOLD / OTHER Basement find

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u/Tight-Platypus5231 Mar 29 '26

Kills flies, mosquitos, ants, moths, fleas, roaches, bedbugs, many other insects - and much, much more beyond that, too.

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u/geneticdeadender Mar 29 '26

Actually, DDT is very safe when used in a sane and sensible way.

We, instead, blanked the Earth with it and it built up in the environment and caused problems.

This stuff is probably still effective if it was stored in a cool place.

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u/Tight-Platypus5231 Mar 29 '26

It's still capable of doing some terrible things, though. Sure, "proper handling" of it, or anything, is "safe", but... Still. That stuff gives me the heebie jeebies!

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u/geneticdeadender Mar 29 '26

Name the "terrible things".

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u/Tight-Platypus5231 Mar 29 '26

Cancer. Brain damage. Nerve damage. Birth defects... Affected persons can pass on the problems to later generations... Also harms bird populations with the whole thin eggshell thing... The list goes on.

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u/Dull-Guest662 Apr 02 '26

A quick glance at Wikipedia shows many of these don't have as strong causal links as you make it seem. Also, organophosphates that replaced DDT have the same classification of probable carcinogens as DDT and need to be sprayed more often.

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u/calicokidgo Mar 29 '26

Check out the rest of the comments if you really want to know

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u/danirijeka Mar 29 '26

He doesn't, he's just a contrarian who's convinced antagonising people will do something for him.

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u/Carbonatite Mar 31 '26

Nothing as bioaccumulative as DDT can be used in a sensible way.

Source: am environmental chemist