Tuesday, November 30, 2010

BREAKING NEWS: Rachel Carson kills millions!

300 million cases of malaria occur GLOBALLY each year. 90% of these cases (resulting in death) occur in Africa, mostly in children. DDT, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, was used as an insecticide to control malaria and other insect-causing diseases during WWII and beyond. Eventually, DDT was banned due to numerous side effects on humans and animals, and mostly the disastrous effects it had on our beautiful earth. DDT, along with many other insecticides were banned because of an environmental movement that was started by Rachel Carson and her book, Silent Spring. Since DDT was banned, malaria has been a leading disease burden throughout Africa. No longer can malaria be ceased, but it continues on it's killing rampage in a country lacking infrastructure and other vital resources to put this disease to an end, permanently.

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Animal Cruelty

I believe that animal testing is inhumane. I have pets and they are a part of my family, I would never want anything bad to happen to them. When such testing is done on poor animals, the lasting effects are unknown and could kill them. I don't think this is the answer.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

What are the odds....

...that you'll be struck by lightening? 1/750,000

...that you will give birth to quintuplets (without any medicine)? 1/55,000,000

...that you'll win the mega millions? 1/135,145,920

...the world will end by a gamma ray burst? 1/14,000,000

...that you will become the next U.S president?10,000,000 to 1

...that you will win an Olympic gold medal? 655,000 to 1