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EYE-EATING FUNGUS NEXT WEAPON IN DRUG WAR?

IN THESE TIMES:

On April 16, the New York Times ran a full-page ad from contact lens producer Bausch and Lomb, announcing the recall of its “ReNu with MoistureLoc” rewetting solution, and warning the 30 million American wearers of soft contact lenses about Fusarium keratitis...

...That same week, the House of Representatives passed a provision to a bill requiring that the very same fungus be sprayed in “a major drug-producing country,” such as Colombia. ... [*]

The little ol' eye eater, as our Congresscritters like to call it, has spread rapidly across the US. Earlier attempts to use it as a herbicide in the US were doomed by its intense ability to mutate and its deadliness to the immuno-compromised.

But it's good enough for use in foreign lands, which tend to be inhabited by God-forsaken foreigners, many of them with swarthy complexions. The fact that 12% of Columbia's population is malnourished and could be possible victims, should not be seen as genocide, but as abortion-free family planning! What's not to like?

Comments

Well, yes, genocide, but as I recall, isn't genocide the mass killing of people?

But seriously though, the free market will fix any problem that crops up there. By the very will to power of capitalism, the dead shall rise and be made whole again...

Adam Smith said so...

mojo sends

Isn't biological warfare against the Geneva Conventions? I think that there is a certain humanitarian value to quaintness that is not going to be denied.

It's not a biological weapon, its a herbicide. And DU is not a radiological weapon, its a munition .

The fact that innocent people could die from them is just a sad, sad thing that we regret deeply...

Moj, if you read the link it said it could be fatal for those w/ compromised immune systems - such as those with malnutrition.

Hence genocide - people/ version

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