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Laboratory studies of the ingredients in seven popular flea and tick repellents have shown adverse health effects in all animals tested. The effects of these well-known and aggressively sold products range from convulsions, body tremors and difficulty breathing to thyroid cancer, brain lesions and tumors of the liver and lungs. However, TV commercials with reliable-looking veterinarians only present the happy side of these products.
Which flea and tick pesticide do you use for your dog and / or cat? If your favorite treatment contains the active ingredient fipronil, imidacloprid, methoprene, permethrin, pyriproxyfen or the inert ingredient butyldiroxytoluene, butylhydroxanisole, carbitol, ethanol or polyvinylpyrlipidone, you should know about the not so good side of these products.
If you think your veterinarian or local pet store would never sell you such a sinister poison, think again.
Advantage (Bayer Corporation), Adams Spot-On Flea & Tick Control (Farnam Pet Products), BioSpot Flea & Tick Control (Farnam Pet Products), Defend EXspot Treatment (Schering-Plow Animal Health), Frontline Top Spot (Merial Limited), Frontline Plus (Merial Limited) and Zodiac FleaTrol Spot On (Wellmark International) – all contain one or more of the aforementioned active or inert ingredients.
The results of the toxicology and morbidity of these pesticides were collected over a decade of laboratory tests by the United States Environmental Protection Agency; Occupational Safety and Health Administration, US Department of Labor; Extended toxicological network; Journal of Pesticide Reform; Pesticides Action Network in North America and other sources, with additional information provided by the material safety data sheets.
Most tests were performed in favor of new product manufacturers to qualify for EPA registration. Scientists have overdosed on laboratory animals to determine how much of the product will kill 50% of the test population. The information is then extrapolated and assumptions are made that may apply to domestic animals and humans.
According to laboratory tests, Fipronil (Frontline Top Spot and Frontline Plus) is a neurotoxin and a putative agent for cancer in humans. Fipronil can cause liver toxicity, thyroid cancer, kidney damage, high cholesterol, incoordination, difficulty breathing, miscarriages and delayed offspring.
Imidacloprid (Advantage) laboratory tests on mice, dogs and rats have shown that this insecticide is neurotoxic to laboratory animals, and also causes incoordination, difficulty breathing, thyroid lesions, birth weight and increased birth defects.
The synthetic broad-spectrum pyrethroid insecticide permethrin (Adams Spot-on Flea & Tick Control; BioSpot Flea & Tick Control; and Defend EXspot Treatment) has been shown to be an endocrine disruptor and a cause of lung cancer and liver tumors in laboratory animals.
Methoprene and Piriproxyfen (Zodiac FleaTrol Spot On; and BioSpot Flea & Tick Control) are known to regulate insect growth (IGR), both of which limit flea growth to the young stage where reproduction is not possible. Laboratory studies have shown that Methoprene causes an enlarged liver and kidney degeneration.
Unfortunately, few people actually read EPA test results. They are even less eager to hear about the many laboratory test subjects (unwanted dogs and cats) killed during and after research to determine damage to specific systems and organs. But it only takes a few people with clear thinking to bring about change. Are you ready to stop this madness? There are effective alternatives, as you know.
Today there are completely natural remedies against fleas and ticks – completely harmless to children, pets and the environment – made from pure botanically essential oils. Some natural products work relatively well, others do not, and some work much better than toxic things!
The way it works – the way these natural remedies kill fleas and ticks – is to disrupt the insect’s ability to function by blocking a substance called octopamine. In nature, some plants have developed natural protection against insects. These “octopamine blockers” in plants are extracted as oils and used as active ingredients. Octopamine for the insect is what adrenaline is for humans. When blocked by the system, the insect dies quickly. No noise, no noise. No one was hurt except the bug.
Please start today to stop supporting heartless laboratory tests of innocent animals, the insidious cover-up and rush to the big business market and the unintentional harm we can do to our children, pets and our planet.
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Source by Gary Le Mon