Barry Finn,

Uh! Oh! You've hit on one of my pet peeves.

DDT is one of the safest insecticides ever made.

The problem was caused by indiscriminate use.

SO, the powers that be decide to remove this valuable tool in our fight against insects and still allows the indiscriminate use of far more potent poisons.

With the use of DDT, malaria (just one insect borne disease) was reduced to around one million deaths per year world wide.
Since the banning of DDT, that figure has almost doubled.

I Think that....
No poison should be administered without some form of control.
We need DDT to control insects.
A lot more attention need to be paid to mechanical and organic methods of control.

Let me get down from my soap box. Bert.