美国威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校动物学系主任和环境毒理学教授华伦波特（Professor
Warren P. Porter, University of Wisconsin in Madison）发现，一滴混合农药进入食水中，就能影响动物的学习能力和暴力倾向。这可以说明，农药已经影响儿童在学校的表现，导致家庭解体，忽略及虐待儿童，以及使社会暴力事件增加。
他说，你能够想象家长将自己的子女暴露在农药吗？事实上，他们每天都这样做！也就是说，他们在家里和花园喷洒虫药，吃含有残余农药的蔬果，允许学校用药，以及在他们的草场使用农药。他说，这似乎在说，我们保护实验室动物的努力，做得比保护我们的子女更加好。
“我们的研究只专注在一天的暴露反应，如果将内分泌的工率增加到1.00ppt(parts per
trillion，约等于20个游泳池中的一滴水)，而你干扰了内分泌正常功能，并且可以改变生物化学轨道，你即已经触动生物学的开关制并带来长远的冲击。”
他说，“没有人对Roundup（年年春）的外力变质进行过可以转变基因表现的冲击研究，而它可能是一辈子的。”
读过“法灭尽经”的人，一定会联想到很多事情。包括……
Pesticides and
Aggression
For the past 25 years, tens of millions of Americans in
hundreds of cities and towns have been drinking tap water that is contaminated
with low levels of insecticides, weed killers, and artificial fertilizer. They
not only drink it, they also bathe and shower in it, thus inhaling small
quantities of farm chemicals and absorbing them through the skin. Naturally,
the problem is at its worst in agricultural areas of the country.
The most common contaminants are carbamate insecticides
(aldicarb and others), the triazine herbicides (atrazine and others) and
nitrate nitrogen.[1] For years government scientists have tested each of these
chemicals individually at low levels in laboratory animals -- searching mainly
for signs of cancer -- and have declared each of them an "acceptable
risk" at the levels typically found in groundwater.
Now a group of biologists and medical researchers at the
University of Wisconsin in Madison, led by Warren P. Porter, has completed a
5-year experiment putting mixtures of low levels of these chemicals into the
drinking water of male mice and carefully measuring the results. They reported
recently that combinations of these chemicals -- at levels similar to those
found in the groundwater of agricultural areas of the U.S. -- have measurable
detrimental effects on the nervous, immune and endocrine (hormone) systems.[2]
Furthermore, they say their research has direct implications for humans.
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