Birds vs. Humans

By ACSH Staff — Jun 17, 2002
"If this is a battle between thinning eggshells and human health, we stand firmly on the side of human health...Some of these activists don't pay attention to human life, especially in Third World countries where it's not in their narrow view of life and not affecting them in their backyards in the suburbs." Jeff Stier, Esq., ACSH's associate director, on activists who banned the malaria-fighting pesticide DDT to protect birds, at a cost of millions of human lives (as quoted by the Greenwire news service, June 14, 2002).

"If this is a battle between thinning eggshells and human health, we stand firmly on the side of human health...Some of these activists don't pay attention to human life, especially in Third World countries where it's not in their narrow view of life and not affecting them in their backyards in the suburbs."

Jeff Stier, Esq., ACSH's associate director, on activists who banned the malaria-fighting pesticide DDT to protect birds, at a cost of millions of human lives (as quoted by the Greenwire news service, June 14, 2002).