PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF THE 1960S
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chemical pesticides
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organic fertilizers
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insect-resistant seeds
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plant-based herbicides
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Detailed explanation-1: -Following World War II, chemical companies and agricultural experts promoted the use of synthetic chemicals as pesticides on weeds and insects. It was, Pete Daniel points out, a convenient way for companies to apply their wartime research to the domestic market.
Detailed explanation-2: -DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) was developed as the first of the modern synthetic insecticides in the 1940s. It was initially used with great effect to combat malaria, typhus, and the other insect-borne human diseases among both military and civilian populations.
Detailed explanation-3: -World War II was the first U.S. war in which diseases – many like typhus and malaria carried by insects – killed fewer people than bullets and bombs. The reason was DDT. The insect killer – or “insecticide” – had been discovered in 1939 and used extensively by the U.S. military during the war.
Detailed explanation-4: -Insecticides are chemicals that are sprayed over crops to kill insects. Some examples of insecticides are D.D.T. and B.H.C.