ENDOSULFAN KILLING HUNDREDS

Ever since the dreaded insecticide Endosulfan (alpha,beta-1,2,3,4,7,7-hexachlorobicyclo(2.2.1)-2-heptene-5,6-bisoxymethylenesulfite) had come to use on a vast scale in the Kasargode district of Kerala, India, to destroy the insect pests on plants especially cashew plants by spraying from helicopters, hundreds of children, youth and elders alike fell victims to life threatening diseases like cancer and deformities like mental retardation, abnormal body structures which inch by inch killed and still killing innocents on a large-scale. Social activists and environmentalists have taken up cudgels a few rulers in the corridors of power are justifying the usage of this evil. It is high time social activists and environmentalists across the world visited the site and see for themselves the harm this insecticide causes to the citizens. They should take it as a mission to exert pressure on the governments to ban this poisonous insecticide as a whole.