{"id":1010,"date":"2012-01-26T18:17:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T18:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2012-01-26T18:17:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T18:17:04","slug":"how-they-tried-to-kill-the-tea-mosquito-and-save-the-cashew-nut-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/how-they-tried-to-kill-the-tea-mosquito-and-save-the-cashew-nut-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"How they tried to kill the Tea Mosquito and save the Cashew Nut Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In Kasargod a region of Kerala, South India<br \/>\nVillagers have been suffering for years<br \/>\nThe Municipal Government,thought it prudent to<br \/>\nDo away with Tea Mosquito&#8217;s,but by so doing\u00a0 heightened\u00a0 many fears<br \/>\nA helicopter spraying Endosulphan from the sky<br \/>\nHas increased the serious illnesses of people and<br \/>\nThey know why<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">this awful toxic chemical<br \/>\nprotecting Cashew Trees<br \/>\nEnds up in their villages and kills off all the Bees<br \/>\nIts an organochlorine,and it smells of turpentine<br \/>\nIts very very harmful to people down the line<br \/>\nLots have died excruciating deaths and many more<br \/>\nWalk about like zombies their bodies tired and sore<br \/>\nHow Bayer got this chemical approved in 54<br \/>\nwith USDA it just shows you somehow they did ignore<br \/>\nThe really perilous nature and so it was allowed<br \/>\nAnd tonnes of it have been made around the world and have been showered<br \/>\nMany I am sure have been injured and many more have died<br \/>\nSome have made a lot of money I am sure some souls have lied<br \/>\nBut now its being banned at last ,some 50 years of pain<br \/>\nChina and India use it still, but most others now refrain<br \/>\nBut only very recently despite Panna and those<br \/>\nWho fought to show the authorities how the terrible threat grows<br \/>\nIts been found as far as the arctic wastes<br \/>\nin breast milk near and far<br \/>\nwith a half life of some 60 years<br \/>\nOne must wonder how we are<br \/>\nWhen these awful chemicals are approved and allowed to be<br \/>\nused all over, whoever erred, will pay karmically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How it is that toxic chemicals are approved and then down the line banned because they are proven to be very dangerous.There should be more enquiries made rather than just ban them many years later. <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/01\/how-they-tried-to-kill-the-tea-mosquito-and-save-the-cashew-nut-trees\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-poems","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}