UGANDANS FEAR EU BOYCOTT

As I noted just the other day, Australia's self-styled DDT authority reckons you'd have to be totally clueless to think the EU would boycott or ban agricultural products from any African nation that reintroduces DDT for indoor anti-malaria spraying. Well, Ugandans are obviously clueless:

Uganda's agricultural exporters have petitioned President Yoweri Museveni to stop the government's planned use of DDT in the fight against malaria.

The exporters are arguing that the controversial chemical will turn buyers against their products.

In an open letter to the president dated April 25, the exporters argue that a government plan to spray DDT only indoors to ensure that it does not get into the food chain, is not enough to assuage the fears of consumers in the West.

"There is no such thing as 'controlled' indoor spraying; DDT effluents will at some point enter the food chain and negatively impact on Uganda's export market," the petition says. The stigma that will then attach to Uganda's export products will affect all sectors. "Already, some importers of Ugandan products in Europe have threatened to stop buying our products once the spraying starts," adds the petition, which was signed by representatives of traditional and non-traditional exports organisations from the dairy, honey, coffee, tea, fish, textile, organic and horticultural produce sectors.

Click the first link above to read what Roy Innis had to say about the EU's failure to support the use of DDT against malaria. Oddly, Malaria Man, who averages better than three DDT posts a month, has gone quiet on the subject.