January/February 1975
By the Mother Earth News editors
SO WHAT IF THE ARMY KILLS 14 MILLION BLACKBIRDS? The U.S. Army apparently has no intention of filing an environmental impact statement on its decision to kill 14,000,000 blackbirds--two percent of the nation's total--this winter. According to the Army, the plan (a masterful piece of strategy involving spraying the birds with wetting agents to cause death by exposure) poses no significant threat to our ecosystem. The Environmental Defense Fund, however, understandably disagrees and will take the military to court if an impact statement is not prepared.
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THE DEFOLIANTS DROPPED BY THE U.S. ON VIETNAM will inflict disease and death on that country's people and crops for the next 100 years . . . so says a recent report derived from a three-year study conducted by the National Academy of Science. The researchers found that children were often the first victims of the "smoke" and that thousands of youngsters died of dioxin poison. A total of 100 million pounds of chemical herbicide--six pounds for every inhabitant-were dropped during the "crisis" to defoliate jungles and destroy "enemy" crops. And some of the same poisons--2,4,5-T, for instance--are now being heavily used to "improve" thousands of acres of scrub forest in Missouri, Arkansas, Pennsylvania and other states. Have your children been inexplicably listless, irritable and ill lately?
