The Use Of 1080 Poison, Different Viewpoints, Social And Biological Implications And The Biological Concept

In chapter 1 titled “Chloroform (CHCI3 )” of The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum, the most interesting story developed within the chapter was the unsolved mystery of eight deaths in a refuge called Odd Fellows Home. Frederic Mors, who claimed to be responsible for all these eight murders, confessed his own guilt in front of the district attorneys. As it was said, “To prove that these elderly residents had been poisoned, they needed solid evidence. [Rumors, suspicions, and anecdotes, a confession by a suspect who might just be crazy, weren’t enough to charge a man with murder.]” (Blum 13).

Through discussing possible solutions using a critical and cynical tone, Carson identifies the common mistakes and effects that humanity has been creating. The article starts by explaining how common poisoning as a way to control pesky animals has become. Rachel Carson demonstrates, “In southern Indiana, for example, a group of farmers went together in the summer of 1959 to engage a spray plane to treat an area of river bottomland with parathion. The area was a favored roosting site for thousands of blackbirds that were feeding in nearby cornfields. The problem could have been solved easily by a slight change in agricultural practice,” (12-19.) By presenting an example in which poision seems to be the answer and then presenting an uncomplicated solution which would benefit the ecosystem and the farmers, she is emphasizing how simple it is to destroy the Earth. To add on, when the author utilizes the words “easily” and “slight” she brings the audience’s attention to her critical tone by accenting the transparent fix. As the audience is exposed to how mindless their actions were with the the parathion, they understands the author’s discontent of the dangerous manipulation of the farmland.

In order to preserve the existence of birds in our environment, the government should generally integrate crop management techniques. These methods include; selective pesticides, avoiding spraying in during breeding season and when crops and weeds are in flower, and then minimise spray drift or creation of headlands. When these methods are put into practice, they can help minimize unwanted effects of pesticides on farmland birds.

Poisons such as parathion are known as universal killers, which kills thousands of wildlife each year. In the book, Silent Spring, written by a noted biologist Rachel Carson, she argues that deadly poisons, that are meant to kill annoying creatures, are a hazard to the humans, domestic animals, as well as wildlife. She also argues that farmers are ignorant to the radiating damage of the poisons like parathion, which can cause long-term effects on both humans and the environment. She argues that through the use of dark and war-like diction, characterization, as well as rhetorical questions.

After the past tragedies that have hit the Mountaineer community this fall; I consumed myself in wondering what could’ve been done to change the outcome. What if your best friend read the directions wrong and took something s/he shouldn’t have, wouldn’t you want to know how to save them? “Nearly 40 percent of college students engage in binge drinking,” heavy drinking such as this is directly related with injury, health problems, and a decline in academic performance (Random Control). This is so relevant in colleges that most resident assistance are expected to serve as first-aid providers, but the reality is no program exists for them to take (resident assistant training). If the resident assistance don’t have a class that they have to

The use of pesticides is an important decision that thousands of communities face each year. Nobody likes dealing with mosquitos and the diseases they bring so using chemicals and pesticides is an option but with other consequences. Mosquitos carry West Nile Virus that affects the city of Genericville every year with 50 cases projected this year in the city and two fatalities as well. On the other hand, the chemicals proposed for controlling the mosquito population has its own risks. The pesticide Malathion is also dangerous to people if they come in contact with it before it degrades. The potential for citizens of the city being exposed is almost a certainty

In chapter two titled “Chloroform” of The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum. The most interesting story in this chapter a murderer called Mores he said “ [He] liked chloroform for its efficiency… its wonderful poison” (9). As the story continues Mores used chloroform as an advantage for murder, he took this, as an advantage because he said that when investigators did an autopsy there was no way of finding the cause of the death since autopsies showed no clue of chloroform. This story relates to the title because as we read chloroform is a chemical, which is very poisonous and dangerous method of constraining a murder.

Having already established the harm to man, Rachel Carson now shifts to the effect the spraying has on birds, saying “So they sent in the planes on their mission of death-the casualty list included.(22-24). The reference to spraying as a mission of death lends it the connotation of being mass killing, in other words, genocide. The reference to the amount of dead as a large casualty list illustrate such sprayings as an act of war, of which the blackbirds were the innocent victims of. In addition, neat the end of the passage, another question is asked to the reader, demanding “Who has decided-who has the right to decide-”(56-57). The use of the word right appeals to the intended audiences sense of justice and belief in distribution of power and decision making. By asking this question, the decision to spray pesticides is seen as one made without the consent of all involved, and thus in need of changing. Both these descriptions and questions serve to provide an appeal to pathos for the

In the early 1940’s, a new technology emerged that was able to successfully combat crop-damaging and disease-carrying insects. A new age of synthetic chemical pesticides use arose. After their impressive success in fighting deadly insect-borne diseases during World War II, pesticides were used widely to combat insect pests for agriculture and public health. Few people challenged the benefits of the new scientific and technological products and many embraced pesticide use with enthusiasm. Despite its success, doubts about pesticide use began to appear a decade later in the 1950’s, when the government began a vigorous pesticide campaign across the country against insect pests. Scientists began reporting heavy losses of avian and

Parathions are extremely toxic compounds, which are formed by the elements phosphorous and sulfur, and are commonly used as agricultural insecticide. According to the Fish and Wildlife Service, areas exposed to parathions result in potential peril concerning domestic animals, wildlife and humans. Noted biologist, Rachel Carson, argues against the farmers’ use of parathion to kill blackbirds because they are also harming the environments of wildlife and humans. Carson applies offensive diction, imagery of the disaster created by parathions and pathos to evoke the audiences’ sorrow. She addresses her concerns to an audience that values nature in order to terminate the farmers’ utilization of parathions and conserve biological life.

She suggest chemical insecticides and herbicides be call biocides (toxins that kill many species) because these chemicals do their job at eradicating their target organism, but end up in the animal that eats the chemical’s target organism thus having the potential to kill this animal also. Carson is opposed to the use of most toxins.

The theme of The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York is: there are many ethical, social, and medical issues surrounding advancements in science. The following quote supports this theme because it demonstrates to social issues in the New York political system. The coroners were hand chosen by a city’s mayor; typically the mayors chose a political friend or ally to occupy the coroner’s office, rather than a medically trained individual. Thanks to shady, ill-informed, untrained, and occasionally drunk coroners, murderers continually walked free. In the subsequent case, the Mors murder case, the coroner’s misinformation resulted in a lack of evidence

Pesticides can be defined as a substance used for destroying insects or other organisms harmful to cultivated plants or to animals. Although many individuals believe that the use of pesticides result in a positive impact, Rachel Carson’s, “The Obligation to Endure” refutes such beliefs as she discusses the harmful consequences of lethal chemicals being released into the environment. Although Carson however never truly comes out to state that “we should never use chemicals to kill insects no matter what...”, she rather states that “using lethal insecticides to kill “pests” have huge consequences on the food chain, all the way to human beings” (Carson). Carson is one of the most famous environmental writers of the 20th century that describes within her book, Silent Spring, the “fictitious future in which deadly chemicals have killed all the insects and the birds that eat them and then sickened the animals higher on the food chain, including humans” (Carson 4), further going on to state that “it is an environmental worst-case scenario story” (Carson). Throughout this piece, Carson is repeatedly stating the same information to back up her statement, however incorporating new information and switching the structure of the sentence.

The chemicals that are sprayed on the ground, even household weed killers, have a tendency to wash into local streams and rivers with the first rain. This has caused many incidents of fish, numerous miles down a river, to be found dead due to the toxins in the water. Carson states that the best way to eliminate a pest problem is to use natural predators, which are non-toxic, and a better long-term solution then pesticides, since many pests will become immune to most chemicals.

In the book 'Silent spring ' written by Rachael Carson we find a picture of Carson 's deep concept about the connection between nature’s equilibrium and the web of life that has been ruined by the uncontrolled use of insecticides which in turn affected the healthy livelihood of this earth’s creatures. Furthermore, she tells the readers of substitute techniques of achieving the same ends. The title of the book is enough to make us understand that it was a hint of a spring season with no bird songs painting our atmosphere meaning that all birds had vanished due to misuse of pesticides.