Well there were a lot of guys who were in Vietnam that got sprayed with Agent Orange and died from cancer.So whatever was in Agent Orange was in the spray farmers used for a long time.I just want to add that Agent Orange was made by Monsanto.
So that caused a bunch of farmers to die probably.Also since then who knows what they have took out of, or put in weed killing spray.I notice most people here hire the COOP to spray for them.It is probably a lot better now since they have cabs on the sprayers,or some people use planes to spray. It might be interesting to see if guys who do the spraying have cancer more often than the rest of the population.
I think what it was in Agent Orange was PCBs or something.
I will say this though,my grandpa never used tractors at all,only horses.He died of cancer in 1968 at 77 years old.It was probably a type of cancer they could fix now maybe.He drank a lot of coffee,ate a lot of salt pork.
You are going to die of something,and it doesnt hurt to be careful with chemicals.Actually I think that bug spray,pesticide, or Aldrin would kill you before Treflan(which was kind of a mild form of Agent Orange) would,but Im no scientist either.Also smoking ,drinking coffee,or a lot of caffeine,eating a bunch of sugar,all are hard on you.
Doctors tell you that drinking a lot is bad for you.Well with car wrecks and stuff if you drive drunk you might get killed,or kill other people,but most everybody I knew that drank whiskey lived a long time if they didnt get killed in an accident.Plus some people that drank a lot died before they made 50 years old.Usually of cancer or something.
So for one thing what they say about it and what the facts are might be a long ways from what reality is.Some people get heart disease and others dont.Some people get cancer and others dont.There are things that they say cause cancer,which are probably found in other stuff besides weed killer and dust.
Another thing is proven too is that the more pollution in the river,the further downstream the more cancer there is.Like the Mississippi has a lot of people with cancer way down there.
Pollution does cause bad stuff to happen.Also they do find evidence of the stuff in weed killer in the water that everybody drinks.
So I think the right thing to say about this is that man causes cancer with all of his crap he has made.Back when there wasnt a lot of man made crap if you made it to 50 you were an old man.So extreme temperature change,burning wood in the winter with out much regulation of the heat,going from heat inside to extreme cold outside in the winter,eating food without refrigeration and other things have killed lots and lots of people.So man has made things to where you can live longer if you are lucky as well.
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