Researchers testing a cheap, homegrown oil in Uganda found what cats knew all along – it worked as well as the artificial chemical used globally
  • JDvecna [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    211·
    3 months ago

    As a lobbyist and chemical engineer for DuPont, I believe we should delay publication of this study because we don’t know what long lasting environmental effects may be incurred by planting this regular old plant that anyone could grow practically for free. It’s safest for you and your family to continue to slather yourselves in DEET. I know it makes your lips numb and dissolves plastics, but that’s just how you know it’s working. Think about what it’s doing to those mosquitos!

    • mrfugu [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      14·
      3 months ago

      DEET may sting and is poison but think about your poor sweet lawn of non-native grass! Catnip would decimate it and you’d be left with a lawn full of cats instead of mosquitoes which is actually way more dangerous if you ignore diseases and only consider physical damage to your body!