Victor Davis Hanson
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2,022 appearances
16 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 23 Mar
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And I know from my own family here on a farm for six generations, and we went through the whole from 1870 when they started until now, every iteration of chemicals.
My grandfather would say, use nicotine powder.
It won't hurt you at all to kill leafhoppers.
Oh, boy.
And then my mother said, well, they said arsenic is absolutely perfect as a herbicide.
We all use arsenic.
And DDT was a big thing when I was a kid.
You know, it doesn't make you sick like anything else.
And we had DD powder everywhere as a pesticide.
And then parathion was absolutely...
When I was growing up, parathion was deadly, but people used it all the time, and it was Saigon B. It was basically a derivative of what German chemical companies had used during the Holocaust.
Yes, and we went very organic very early, like 1980 at farmer's markets, and people would come over and say, you're crazy, there's no –
Yeah, you had the last laugh on that one.
That's why I'm very sympathetic.
Yeah, I think anybody who grew up on a farm in the 1950s and 60s, and remember what people told you, they always had pest advisors that would come out.
And even when I was farming full-time in the 80s, they would come out and say...
I remember I got this pesticide all over my hand.
The pump blew up, and it turned orange from my elbow to my wrist, and I could taste it from the skin.
It would taste like salmon.
And I told the pest advisor, I won't name the name because it's not used anymore.
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