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PROTECTING THE
ENVIRONMENT
The
ingredients of our product, RAGE All Natural Insect Repellent, are
based on Tewa Native American formulation and have
been approved by the United States Environmental Protection Agency as
"Registration Exempt" due to their extremely safe constituents. Our
product is more
powerful
then DEET based repellents, yet gentle on the
environment and completely all natural and biodegradable.
In
sharp contrast, environmental
concern regarding synthetic pesticides has left insect and other
arthropod populations increasingly genetically resistant to
wide-spectrum chemical application. To date, the standard chemical
industry response to biological resistance to any number of pesticides
has been to subscribe to the notion of "more is better".
In
other
words, synthetic chemical manufacturers churn out an increasingly more
diverse spectrum of increasingly toxic chemicals. Long-term impacts on
higher organisms seem to be reflected in the latest amphibian
population crisis. Since first being discovered in Minnesota by
schoolchildren in 1995, scientists the world over have noted a dramatic
increase in the frequency of deformities in amphibians such as frogs.
It is thought that while most of the deformities found in amphibians
are the result of parasitic infections, the highly permeable skins of
these animals allows for rapid absorbtion of pesticides contaminating
their home waters. These pesticides have been shown to deeply depress
amphibian immune systems, making them much more susceptible to
deformities.
Do
you really want this on your skin?
Even
today, in the first half of the 21st
Century, biological
systems in North America are still being damaged by
exponential bioaccumulation of chemicals such as DDT within entire
food chains. Synthetic insect control compounds such as
DEET can have
devastating ecological effects due to their chemical
toxicity, biomagnification and long residence time, and are now either
banned in the U.S. or coming under greater environmental scrutiny and
regulation by the EPA.
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