Ddt Informative Speech

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Think about a time where you were in a car crossing a big farmland and you see green plants surrounding you with a slow breeze swaying the leaves and farm animals grazing around. You then wonder how the plants are so healthy and green. This can be because the farmers are using DDT. You might be asking yourself now what is DDT? It is a colorless, tasteless, and almost odorless crystalline chemical compound, an organochlorine, originally developed as an insecticide that can benefit Plants In some ways. And when I say that it can benefit plants, I mean that it helps growing crops, curing diseases, and can be used often because it is cheap. Now I will tell you how DDT is beneficial.

One of the ways DDT is beneficial to use humans is because it cures diseases. From the article “Typhus” it says “DDT comes in a form of a vaccine and helps cure typhus.” Now I have just shown that DDT can cure Typhus(a type of disease) and can stop spreads of disease in which another person can get the disease. From the article “The Magic of DDT” it quotes “Malaria, a type of disease, can start in one place but can spread around the world through mosquitoes if nobody dealt with it. The insecticide DDT though can stop spreading malaria by killing the mosquitoes that are carriers which transmit the disease. To sum it all up, this paragraph was to show …show more content…

“DDT is indeed a very cheap and highly effective pesticide.,” Kemm said. (Conservative Spotlight). This cheap pesticide can help people cut down on their expenses and use their money for something else.“This cheap insecticide is saving lives and making an impact on the environment” (DDT Returns). The quote shows that DDT is very inexpensive and you can buy more DDT if it is at an affordable price and while doing that you are helping the world. In conclusion, DDT is a chemical at a modest price and lets you use your money wisely and companies can buy more supply of

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