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The Party of Death in Convention Assembled
Playing up the War on Women meme and the Todd Akin gaffe, the Democrats are going to be celebrating their most sacred
rite right at their Convention in September:
Democrats said that they will feature Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parent Action Fund, Nancy Keenan, president of the NARAL Pro-Choice America and Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University student whose plea for federal birth control funding drew the ire–and a subsequent apology–from Rush Limbaugh.
What's more, the Democrats are expanding their list of women ready to assail the GOP on women's issue, adding Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski and actress Eva Longoria to the list that already includes Sen. John Kerry and Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren.
This goes hand in hand with their rejection of Cardinal Dolan's offer to pray at the Democrat convention. Dolan is giving the benediction at the Republican convention this week, so in an effort at even-handedness, he offered to do so for the Democrats. This offer was rejected out of hand. Why? It would have been smart politics for the Democrats to have the Cardinal pray for them, perhaps the visuals marginally helping them with Catholic voters. Yet they turned up their nose. I can think of three reasons for the rejection:
1. Complete contempt for the Cardinal who has been leading the fight against the HHS mandate.
2. Concern that the Cardinal would have slammed them in his prayer, or at least mentioned some of the ongoing controversies between the Obama administration and the Church.
3. Fear that some of their pro-abort and pro-gay marriage delegates might boo the Cardinal, demonstrating the tolerance that modern liberals are justly famed for.
I'd say one or three might be the most likely. At any rate the Democrats, unable to run on the pig of the economy that Obama has produced, are running pure Culture War this time around. Should be interesting.
Update: Now the Democrats have invited the Cardinal to give the closing prayer, no doubt partially due to the static they were getting from blogs regarding their initial refusal. It will be interesting to hear what the Cardinal says and how a group of fired up leftist Democrats react.
37 Responses to The Party of Death in Convention Assembled
The Party of Slavery.
The Party of Death.
My, how times have changed!
I hope that even women who favor legal abortion see this for what it is – shameless pandering. Silly me, I once thought that the whole point of feminism was to assert that women were to be recognized as equals and not simply as sex objects. What does this obsessive focus on BC and abortion do but reduce women to their sex organs? "Women's health" has come to mean abortion and birth control and breast cancer, as if those are the only reasons women need medical treatment and the only thing we have on our minds. Forget the economy, jobs, foreign policy, runaway government spending – no, we just sit around contemplating our reproductive organs all day long. We're apparently too dumb to be interested in any other issue. Who are the sexists here?
Well said, Donna V., well said!
Donna, I couldn't have said it better! I've long had the same thoughts that the early feminists were real women and mothers. They wanted to be able to vote, they wanted to be treated as equals. It's insane what it has come to mean nowadays.
This is a risky move by the Dems. Many independents do not buy into this phony war on women. Class warfare is a much better strategy for the Dems — dishonest to be sure, but more likely to be effective with middle and working class independents. The right to contraception meme, and placing Planned Parenthood front and center, will not play well with many undecided voters. Its only upside is turning out the base.
"I fled, and cry'd out, DEATH!
Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd
From all her caves, and back resounded, DEATH!"
Line 787, Book II, Paradise Lost
"So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,
Farewell remorse; all good to me is lost.
Evil, be thou my good."
Lines 108-110; Book IV.
"So spake the Fiend, and with necessity,
The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds."
Lines 393-394. Book IV.
"Necessity is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves", William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, Speech on the India Bill, November, 1783.
Its only upside is turning out the base.
I suspect they're having doubts that they can even solidify and motivate their base to turn out, Mike. First things first and all that.
I suspect that is true and not a good sign for them. Either party that makes efforts to appeal to its base risks alienating independents. For Romney, that means stick to economic issues. Obama's best version of that is class warfare. Many working class Dems are not fans of PP, etc., and placing this issue front and center is risky. I suspect that in the echo chamber that is Obama's campaign, they think most women are sympathetic to Sandra Fluke, when the truth is most never heard of her and most don't think government should be in the contraception business or promoting abortion.
Remember that Sandra Fluke's demand was specifically not for government to provide her birth control. Rather, it was a demand that government force Georgetown to provide her birth control, and that was her motivation for going to Georgetown in the first place.
Any time Sandra Fluke makes her way back to the limelight, this should be highlighted.
If you have some spare time, you ought to check out some of the pro-slavery tracts from that period. For instance, we often here from pro-abortionists, "If you are so opposed to abortion, how come you are not adopting unwanted children?" There was pro-slavery tract making exactly the same argument to the effect of, "if you are so opposed to slavery, why won't you pay fair-market value for them and free them yourselves?"
Scott W.
Somewhat Ironically, if the federal government had done just that it would have been an incredible bargain compared to the human and financial costs of the Civil War. Of course, such a scenario would be great fodder for alternative historians (perhaps Don has already pondered it).
Thanks, Don. I had not realized that. But I'm not surprised. The South's investment in slavery was more than just financial. It was cultural and entangled with its own sense of self-determination. The War was probably a tragic necessity.
Mike Petrik
The British Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 combined a system of indentures labour for former slaves and substantial compensation. It met with no resistance and also demonstrated that there was no economic case for slavery: the cost of sugar production actually fell after emancipation. The wages of a free labourer and the cost of a slave's subsistence was the same and a slave represented capital sunk in a wasting asset.
Likewise, there was no resistance to the abolition of serfdom in Russia in 1861
I have always thought that slavery in the South was supported, not only by slave-owners, but by the majority of those who were not, as a police measure, not an economic one. It was about controlling the black population. The "Jim Crow" laws, enacted after 1876 bear this out.
"If you have some spare time, you ought to check out some of the pro-slavery tracts from that period."
What I find interesting is how pro-slavery opinion "hardened" in stages between 1776 and 1860 in a manner not unlike the "hardening" of pro-abortion opinion from, say, 1920 up to the present. From what I understand (this is just a very basic outline), at the time of the Declaration, even Southerners admitted that slavery was not a good thing — it was a necessary evil that, hopefully, could be abolished someday, and in the meantime could be limited with measures such as the abolition of foreign slave trade.
Then along came the cotton gin and the rise of the cotton industry in the South, which increased demand for slaves. (You could say that the cotton gin, by jump-starting the cotton industry, did for slavery what the Pill, by jump-starting the sexual revolution, did for abortion — counterintuitively, it increased demand for the very thing one would think it would replace.) Consequently, intra-state and inter-state slave trade also became more lucrative, and growing slave populations in the older slave states "had" to go somewhere.
Hence the ballistic reaction of Southern Congressmen when in 1819, a Northern Congressman proposed a rather mild scheme of gradual emancipation for slaves as a condition for admission of the Missouri Territory as a state (no present slaves would be freed, but any slave children born after statehood would be freed on their 25th birthday). The ensuing debate, which included not so subtle threats of secession and war by representatives of Southern states, was the first real indication that the South had shifted from "Slavery is a bad thing and we'll get rid of it eventually" to "Slavery is NOT going away and you Northerners had better find a way to live with it."
The way that was found to "live with" slavery was, of course, the famous Missouri Compromise setting a geographic boundary between slave and free territory. After that, slavery kind of went on the back burner as a national issue until the mid-1840s, when the annexation of Texas and the Mexican War presented the prospect of a vast expansion of territory potentially open to slavery.
By this time, Southern opinion had hardened even more and they were now insisting upon expansion of slavery or else. The result: the so-called Compromise of 1850, which included, among other measures, a stricter Fugitive Slave Law compelling residents of free states to cooperate in the return of escaped slaves to their owners. Now, the pro-slavery side had moved beyond a "just leave us alone" stance to insisting that slave ownership couldn't be merely tolerated, it was an absolute "right" that the federal government should protect.
Finally, there was the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Dred Scott decision, which basically turned slave ownership into a "right" that could not be geographically limited except, perhaps, by popular vote. Now slave owners, for all practical purposes, had the right to own slaves anywhere and at any time — just as today's Planned Parenthood, et al. fight for the right to abort babies at any time and for any reason.
One difference is that abortion was legally murder until 1973 when the Supremes conjured a Constitutional right to "privacy."
T Shaw,
That is a bit of an exaggeration. First, the legality of abortion was a state question, and state laws varied — including several where if was legal on demand. Further the trend favored liberalization. Second, in states where if was criminalized, it was not classified as murder, and penalties were not comparable.
Mike Petrik
Under Scottish practice, abortionists were, invariably, charged, at common law, with using an instrument or administering a poison or other noxious substance, with intent to procure a miscarriage.
In this way, prosecutors did not have to prove that the child was alive at the time of the offence, or, even, that the woman was pregnant; it was enough that the abortionist thought she was, or even, might be.
Given the rule, "Testis unus, testis nullus" [one witness is no witness] prosecutors usually had to rely on the evidence of two women who had undergone abortions (such witnesses to a course of criminal conduct being regarded as mutually corroborative). Now, a witness's precognition cannot be used against them and, once they testify as a socius criminis, they are immune from prosecution anyway.
As a matter of practice, therefore, the prosecution of the woman would usually face insuperable obstacles.
The fact is that the liberals already have their photo opportunity with Cardinal Dolan at the Al Smith Dinner and they can use that night and its images to portray singularity with the Catholic Church, which they know luke-warm Catholics will eat up in their effort to find an excuse to vote for and defend Obama or other liberal agendas. They don't need another moment of Cardinal Dolan's time, he has already been very generous to offer a moment for the liberal media to feed on. it's a good thing that Cardinal Dolan isn't being welcome at the DNC, he should not be giving blessings to a party that has used the HHS Mandate to make Catholics in this country question their values and morals, and will also be using pro-abortion as its major platform for the DNC. The Catholic Church should not be seen anywhere near an event that upholds this murderous ideology.
T. Shaw says:
"One difference is that abortion was legally murder until 1973 when the Supremes conjured a Constitutional right to "privacy.""
I did not know that there was not a right to privacy enjoyed by all people. If the Supreme Court was affirming the "right to privacy", then it must have affirmed the "right to privacy " enjoyed by all people. If the Supreme Court was rewriting the unalienable "right to privacy" endowed by "their Creator", then the court corrupted true freedom.
How did the Court go from the "right to privacy" enjoyed by all people to the "right to privacy" for the woman's body for the perpetration of abortion, and paid for by all men, women, and children including those unborn of our constitutional posterity?
Mike Petric, Michael Paterson-Seymour:
How does the termination of a human being's existence become less of a crime only because legal authorities do not have the wherewithall to prosecute?
If human rights came from the government, the government can tax you for taking human rights away.
"We shall go before a higher tribunal – a tribunal where a Judge of infinite goodness, as well as infinite justice, will preside, and where many of the judgments of this world will be reversed." Thomas Meagher, late B/G, Commander Irish Brigade, March 1862 to May 1863.
Don, I can see where you're going with this. You're calling for reparations for the descendants of slave-owners, right? That sounds like political gold!
Mary, many sins are not crimes, and in some cases that is precisely for prudential reasons such as unenforecability. While Christendom long treated abortion as a sin and a crime, the offense was not really considered a variant of murder and penalties were almost always directed toward the abortionists rather than the mothers. The word "right" has an uneasy relationship with Catholic tradition, but governments will always secure rights imperfectly, and necessarily so. This is not to suggest that abortion is not a serious sin that should be criminalized (it is and should), but current human circumstances, or perhaps the human condition itself, makes it very difficult, and probably unwise or even unjust, to criminalize it as murder.
Mike Petric "the offense was not really considered a variant of murder and penalties were almost always directed toward the abortionists rather than the mothers."
The abortionist is precisely the individual who must be held accountable. The abortionist's crime is more than scraping the human soul, God's will from the womb. The abortionist's crime is not aiding and assisting in the mother's, another human being's, time of need.
The sin is in the abrogation of God's Will by killing the unborn baby, i.e., God's creation.
Pinky says:
Don, I can see where you're going with this. You're calling for reparations for the descendants of slave-owners, right? That sounds like political gold!
After the Civil War, every freed slave was offered one mule and forty acres of land to support himself. Some accepted the offer. Others went west. There was a movement to make reparations to the descendants of slaves by counting each black persons' vote as two votes. Not fair, nor is it conducive to good government. Many people did not own slaves. Immigrant people may even have been slaves. How can it be fair to tax a person who has not owned slaves because he has become an American citizen? If Lincoln had not offered a settlement of forty acres and a mule to every slave, a settlement would be necessary.
As Nicholas P. pointed out above, the progressive liberal Catholics have their nod of sanction from the Al Smith dinner. It would be a bit hard to take for the Cardinal to say a benediction after hours of speeches dedicated to the killing of the unborn. I assume he offered since his offer was accepted for the Republican convention. He appears to be trying to be meticulous in not being cast as backing either party.
The 40 acres and a mule offer was never official US policy, but was the substance of a single ad hoc order by General Sherman (Special Field Order N0. 15) intended to apply to Blacks who were in the proximity of his army as it marched through Georgia. Sherman even set aside South Carolina's Sea Islands for this purpose, and that acreage was quickly absorbed by the intended beneficiaries. But the idea that freed slaves were more generally given this option is mistaken.
Mary – I was kidding.
Pinky- For the record, I'm all in favor of reparations. Anybody who is a descendant of a slave must make reparations TO the US for having had the privilege of being born here as a result. Lord knows where they would have been otherwise.
ry de Voe wrote, "How does the termination of a human being's existence become less of a crime only because legal authorities do not have the wherewithall to prosecute?"
It doesn't. I was merely pointing out the limits of enforcement.
In the same way, in France, the maximum penalty for procuring an abortion was 5 years imprisonment. Had it been more than 5 years, the accused would have been entitled to a jury trial and juries notoriously refused to convict a « faiseuse d'anges » [angel maker] as the French call village abortionists. Even so, every village had one; everyone knew it; no one talked about it; the police regarded it as "women's business." It was only when a woman died that the Parquet, like Captain Renault, in Casablanca, professed themselves "shocked, shocked, to discover" that such things went on and M. le curé would preach an edifying sermon on the following Sunday.
Michael Paterson-Seymour:
Statutes against abortion were wiped away by Roe v. Wade. These statutes were for the edification of all people to know that the government valued the newly begotten human being. And even though they may have been unenforceable, the statutes defined the culture.
When my mom got pregnant with my sister, the local midwife asked: "Do you want it?". After my sister was born and mom got me, the local midwife again asked: "Do you want it?" I was able to write: "Here I am. Mom chose me." This midwife was the richest woman in the county.
Still, Michael, the statutes define our culture and our culture of life has been expunged from our neighborhood, stolen from our senses and evicted from our consciences, as has the reality of the human being's immortal soul. Let us at least have the statutes to point to when the day of wrath comes upon us. Thank you, too, for your fine reply to my post.
Mike Petrik:
"The 40 acres and a mule offer was never official US policy, but was the substance of a single ad hoc order by General Sherman (Special Field Order N0. 15) intended to apply to Blacks who were in the proximity of his army as it marched through Georgia. Sherman even set aside South Carolina's Sea Islands for this purpose, and that acreage was quickly absorbed by the intended beneficiaries. But the idea that freed slaves were more generally given this option is mistaken.
Thank you for this, Mike Petric. My ignorance is showing. And who would have thought it would be Sherman? But thinking, at the time, our country had open space that could be squatted on as in the Homestead Act (which is still viable, see indwellers ) and became yours after seven years. Being a free man and a citizen, the former slave could own property and vote, and as Paul D. writes. It is pretty good to be a U.S. citizen.
As an aside, Clinton wrote an Executive Order making all free lands and waterways the purview of the chief executve. Squatter's rights be damned, but these rights do exist in the laws.
Pinky says:
Mary – I was kidding.
Pinky: I was laughing.
Mike Petrik, So sorry I misspelled your name.
If Cardinal Dolan gives the benediction reaffirming the unborn, begotten human being's right to life, he may not escape with his life. Mother Teresa did at the Prayer Breakfast with the Clintons and at the Noble Peace Prize. Did anyone notice Obama skipped the Prayer Breakfast. too dangerous for a communist.
Cardinal Dolan is quite capable of affirming man's unalienable right to life and his freedom of conscience.
Congress passed the Affordable Healthcare Act handing over its authentic authority to speak for the people in government. Congress does not have the power to trade away representative government's checks and balances. The Affordable Healthcare Act is legislative nonsense. The HHS mandate is totalitarianism. Congress cannot legislate nonsense.
No worries at all, Mary.
FWIW I doubt Cardinal Dolan will disappoint.
Mary de Voe
I agree that laws can serve for edification and affirming moral values. I would simply add that sometimes a less than ideal measure of enforcement is better than none at all.
For example, drunkenness is a bad thing, but we only prosecute drunkenness in a public place. Lying is wrong, but we only prosecute the more harmful forms – Falsehood, fraud and wilful imposition, or perjury and so on. We sometimes give immunity to thieves, so they can testify against a resetter.
A great Catholic jurist, Portalis – he had suffered for the Faith during the French Revolution and was one of the people who drafted the Code Napoléon, said, "Christianity, which speaks only to the conscience, guides by grace the little number of the elect to salvation; the law restrains by force the unruly passions of wicked men, in the interests of public order/public policy [l'ordre public]"


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Alive (1993 film)
Theatrical release poster
|Directed by
|Frank Marshall
|Produced by
|Screenplay by
|John Patrick Shanley
|Based on
|Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
by Piers Paul Read
|Narrated by
|John Malkovich
|Music by
|James Newton Howard
|Peter James
|Edited by
|Distributed by
Release dates
Running time
|127 minutes
|United States
|$32 million[1]
|Box office
|$36.7 million[2]
Alive is a 1993 American biographical survival drama film based upon Piers Paul Read's 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, which details the story of a Uruguayan rugby team who were involved in the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed into the Andes mountains on Friday, October 13, 1972.
The film was directed by Frank Marshall and narrated by John Malkovich.[3] One of the survivors, Nando Parrado (portrayed by Ethan Hawke in the film), served as the technical advisor for the film. The film also starred Vincent Spano and Josh Hamilton.
The film opens with a collection of photographs of the Stella Maris College's Old Christians Rugby Team. Carlitos Páez explains that the pictures were taken by his father and points out several members of the team, including himself as a young man, Alex Morales, Felipe Restano, Nando Parrado and the team's Captain Antonio Balbi. Carlitos then reflects on the accident in a brief monologue, speaking of heroism, the gravity of the situation and of solitude and faith.
The story moves to October 13, 1972 as Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 flies over the Andes. The raucous rugby players and a few of their relatives and friends are eagerly looking forward to the upcoming match in Chile. Nando's sister, Susana, praises the beauty of the mountains and happily observes that the plane will be landing in 20 minutes.
However, after emerging from clouds, the plane encounters turbulence and collides with an uncharted mountain peak. During the collision, the wings and tail are separated from the fuselage of the plane, and the remnants of the fuselage slide down a mountain slope before coming to a stop. In the process, six passengers and one flight attendant are ejected from the plane and die. Antonio, the team captain, takes charge of the situation, coordinating efforts to help the injured. Roberto Canessa and Gustavo Zerbino, both medical students, are the first to address the injured. Shortly afterwards, another six die including both pilots, Alex, Nando's mother Eugenia, and an older couple. Nando, who sustained a head injury, falls into a coma, and Susana suffers harsh internal injuries.
As the sun sets, the survivors begin to make preparations for the night. Canessa discovers that the seat covers can be unzipped and used as blankets. The survivors go inside the fuselage and curl up beside one another to stay warm. Antonio, Roy Harley, and Rafael Cano plug the gaping hole at the end of the fuselage with luggage to keep out the wind. Two passengers die during the night from their injuries, including Mrs. Alfonsín, causing Carlitos to feel ashamed after earlier yelling at her as she moaned about the pain she had been experiencing. With nothing to hunt or gather on the mountain, Antonio declares they will use rationing when the survivors find a tin of chocolates and a case of wine. After seeing a plane dip its wing, the survivors celebrate. Expecting to be rescued the next day, everyone except Javier, his wife Liliana, and Antonio eat the remaining chocolates.
The survivors listen to a radio for word of their rescue but are devastated to hear the search called off after day nine. This causes a quarrel among Antonio and several others for eating the chocolate. Meanwhile, Nando regains consciousness through the care of Carlitos and Hugo Diaz. After learning of his mother's death, Nando watches over Susana vigilantly. Knowing she will die of her injuries within a few days, he vows to set off on foot and find a way out of the mountains. When Carlitos reminds him that he will need food, Nando suggests consuming flesh from the corpses of the deceased pilots to survive his journey to find help. Susana dies from her injuries.
After great debate, the starving passengers decide to eat the flesh of their dead companions in order to survive. Zerbino, Rafael, and Juan Martino set off to search for the tail of the plane in hopes of finding the batteries for the plane's radio to transmit their location. Among pieces of the wreckage, the teammates find additional corpses, but return to the group with news that the tail of the plane is likely a little farther away. Later in the week, an avalanche hits the plane and floods the interior with snow. Most manage to climb out of the snow, but some are unable to escape; eight of the remaining survivors are smothered by the snow or freeze to death, including Antonio, Liliana, and Juan; Liliana was the last of the five women aboard to die. A second team, made up of Nando, Canessa, and Antonio "Tintin" Vizintin, finds the tail of the plane. Unable to bring the batteries to the fuselage, they return to the fuselage to get Roy, who is rumoured to have experience setting up electrical equipment. They bring him to the tail of the plane (where the batteries are located) to see if he can fix the radio. When Roy is unsuccessful, the team returns to the fuselage once more.
Federico Aranda and Alberto Antuna die from their injuries soon afterward, as does Rafael, leading Nando to convince a reluctant Canessa to search for a way out of the mountains, taking Tintin with them. Two days into the journey, they send Tintin back to the fuselage so they can appropriate his rations and continue on their own. After a 12-day trek, the two escape the mountains and alert the authorities of their companions' location. As helicopters land on the glacier, the other 14 survivors celebrate.
The film then shifts to the present as Carlitos explains the survivors later returned to the site of the crash and buried the corpses under a pile of stones, marked with a cross. The memorial is then displayed with the film's dedication to the 29 deceased and 16 survivors.
James Newton Howard's end credit music was reused in a number of film trailers, most commonly during the mid-1990s.[citation needed]
Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 70% of 23 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 6.3/10.[4]
David Ansen of Newsweek said that, while, "Piers Paul Read's acclaimed book ... paid special attention to the social structure that evolved among the group ... Marshall ... downplays the fascinating sociological details—and the ambiguities of character—in favor of action, heroism and a vague religiosity that's sprinkled over the story like powdered sugar."[5]
Others, such as Ray Green, praised the tactful nature of the film stating that, "despite the potential for lurid sensationalism, Marshall manages to keep his and the film's dignity by steering an effectively downbeat course through some grim goings on thanks in no small manner to the almost allegorical ring of Shanley's stylized dialogue."[6] Green continues by describing the film as, "thrilling and engrossing as it is at times, Alive is more than an action film—in its own way it is also a drama of ideas, and of the human spirit as well."
Roger Ebert wrote "There are some stories you simply can't tell. The story of the Andes survivors may be one of them."[7] He also questioned the realism of how normal the actors' bodies looked after portraying two months of near starvation.[7]
A companion documentary, Alive: 20 Years Later, was released at the same time as the film. It includes interviews with the survivors, as well as documentary footage of the rescue. The 30th Anniversary Edition of Alive: The Miracle of the Andes (on DVD) includes this documentary in the Extras section.
Related media[edit]
- I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash
- Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
- Stranded: I've Come from a Plane that Crashed in the Mountains
- Survive! (film)
See also[edit]
- Survival film, about the film genre, with a list of related films
- ^ http://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Alive#tab=summary
- ^ "Alive (1993) - Box Office Mojo". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
- ^ NY Times movie review, 1993
- ^ "Alive Movie Reviews - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2015-09-18.
- ^ Ansen, David (January 18, 1993). "Hot And Cold Survival Skills Newsweek.com". Newsweek. Retrieved 2010-02-17.
- ^ Green, Ray. "Alive." Box Office (March 1993).
- ^ a b Ebert, Roger (January 15, 1993). "Alive Review". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
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The Lethal Impacts of Roundup and
Predatory Stress on
Six Species of North American Tadpoles
R.A. RELYEA / Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology v.48, n.3, 1apr2005
R. A. Relyea
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Correspondence to: R. A. Relyea; email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Received: 22 April 2004 /Accepted: 3 July 2004
Abstract. The decline in amphibians across the globe has sparked a search for the causes, and recent evidence suggests a connection with pesticides. However, for most pesticides, tests on amphibians are rare and conducted only for short durations (1 to 4 days) and without natural stressors. Recent studies have discovered that the stress of predator cues in the water can make insecticides much more lethal to larval amphibians, but it is unknown whether this phenomenon can be generalized to other types of pesticides. Using six species of North American amphibian larvae (Rana sylvatica, R. pipiens, R. clamitans, R. catesbeiana, Bufo americanus, and Hyla versicolor), I examined the impact of a globally common herbicide (Roundup) on the survival of tadpoles for 16 days with and without the chemical cues emitted by predatory newts (Notophthalmus viridescens). LC5016-d estimates varied from 0.55 to 2.52 mg of active ingredient (AI)/L, which was considerably lower than the few previous studies using Roundup (1.5 to 15.5 mg AI/L). Moreover, in one of the six species tested (R. sylvatica), the addition of predatory stress made Roundup twice as lethal. This discovery suggests that synergistic interactions between predatory stress and pesticides may indeed be a generalizable phenomenon in amphibians that occurs with a wide variety of pesticides.
The global decline in amphibians came to the world's attention in the beginning of the last decade and was vigorously debated (Pechmann et al. 1991; Blaustein et al. 1994; Pechmann and Wilbur 1994; Fisher and Shaffer 1996; Wake 1998). Since that time, surveys of natural populations have become more extensive, and the general consensus is that some species are decreasing, whereas others have remained relatively stable (Fisher and Shaffer 1996; Wake 1998; Alford and Richards 1999; Houlihan et al. 2001; Davidson et al. 2002; however, see Skelly et al. 2003 for assessing the importance of different survey protocols). The apparent causes of these decreases are diverse and include habitat destruction, disease, parasites, invasive species, ultraviolet (UV) radiation, and pesticides (Berger et al. 1998; Alford and Richards 1999; LeNoir et al. 1999; Kiesecker et al. 2001; Relyea and Mills 2001; Sparling et al. 2001; Blaustein and Kiesecker 2002; Davidson et al. 2002; Hayes et al. 2002).
Pesticides are receiving increased attention as a potential cause of amphibian declines. Surveys of natural populations have shown correlations between population declines and proximity to agricultural lands (Davidson et al. 2002; Bishop et al. 1999; LeNoir et al. 1999; Sparling et al. 2001). However, assessing the impact of pesticides on amphibian populations is actually quite difficult because for most pesticides, we have few data on concentrations in nature, and we have few studies on pesticide impacts on amphibians. The reason for this paucity of data is that federal regulations for registering pesticides require testing birds, mammals, fish, and aquatic invertebrates but not amphibians (Cooney 1995). As a result, we often estimate the toxicity to amphibians based on other groups (e.g., fish). However, the impact of a pesticide on amphibians can be very different from the impacts on fish or aquatic invertebrates (Relyea 2003, 2004a, 2004b).
Because current regulations do not require testing of amphibians, many globally common pesticides have rarely been tested on amphibians. For example, one of our most frequently used pesticides is glyphosate, a broad-spectrum herbicide that is sold under a wide variety of commercial formulations including Roundup (Monsanto, St. Louis, MO) and Rodeo. Glyphosate is the second most widely used pesticide in the United States. It is currently applied to 8.2 million ha of cropland in the United States including 2 to 3 million kg for home and garden applications and 4 to 6 million kg for commercial and industrial applications (Aspelin and Grube 1999; National Pesticide Use Database www.ncfap.org/database/default.htm). Whereas glyphosate has been widely tested on birds, mammals, invertebrates, and fish, tests on amphibians have been rather limited until recently (Mann and Bidwell 1999; Perkins et al. 2000; Smith 2001; Lajmanovich et al. 2003; Edginton et al. 2004; Thompson et al. 2004; Wojtaszek et al. 2004). Despite the widespread use of glyphosate in North America, its effect on North American amphibians appears to have been tested in only a few species (Smith 2001; Edginton et al. 2004; Thompson et al. 2004; Wojtaszek et al. 2004). Thus, the need to test the impact of glyphosate on North American amphibians is paramount.
When we test the impact of pesticides on nontarget organ-isms such as amphibians, we ultimately wish to know the lethality under natural conditions. However, in standard tests, we typically remove all aspects of the species' natural ecology (U. S. Environmental Protection Agency [USEPA] 1985a, 1985b; Cooney 1995; American Society for Testing and Materials 1996). For example, most tests are conducted for short durations (1 to 4 days) and in the absence of most abiotic and biotic factors that occur in natural habitats. In nature, many species can be exposed to pesticides for longer durations (depending on site conditions) and in combination with numerous factors that can substantially alter the lethality of pesticides: temperature, pH, UV light, competition, and predator-induced stress (Lohner and Fisher 1990; Zaga et al. 1998; Boone and Bridges 1999; Boone and Semlitsch 2001, 2002; Relyea and Mills 2001; Relyea 2003, 2004a). For instance, two commonly used insecticides (carbaryl and malathion), which are slightly lethal to larval amphibians at low concentrations, can become highly lethal when combined with the stress of chemical cues produced by predators (Ambystoma maculatum or Notophthalmus viridescens; Relyea and Mills 2001; Relyea 2003, 2004a). Because living with predators is a common circumstance for most amphibians, amphibians exposed to pesticides will also be exposed to predatory stress. The synergistic interaction between pesticides and predator cues has been tested only with carbaryl and malathion, two broad-spectrum insecticides that inhibit acetylcholine esterase. Thus, the synergy experienced with predator cues may be restricted to only these insecticides (or to insecticides with similar modes of action). However, if synergistic interactions occur with other pesticides that have different modes of action (e.g., herbicides), then many pesticides may become more lethal under natural ecologic conditions.
In this study, I tested the effects of the herbicide Roundup on six species of larval amphibians from North America (wood frogs, Rana sylvatica; leopard frogs, R. pipiens; green frogs, R. clamitans; bullfrogs, R. catesbeiana; American toads, Bufo americanus; and gray tree frogs, Hyla versicolor). These species are not currently decreasing, but they are a diverse set of species that span a large geographic range and can provide insights into the lethality of Roundup. To determine if Roundup becomes more lethal when combined with predatory stress, I exposed each species to Roundup in the presence and absence of predator chemical cues. All collected (and cited) data are reported in units of milligrams active ingredient per liter (mg AI/L).
Roundup Background
Roundup is a broad-spectrum herbicide composed of both the active ingredient (glyphosate) and a surfactant that enables penetration of plant cuticles (polyethoxylated tallowamine [POEA]). The half-lives of glyphosate and POEA are 7 to 70 days and 21 to 28 days, respectively, depending on site conditions (USEPA 1992; Giesy et al. 2000). At current application rates, a water body with a mean depth of 15 cm and no intercepting vegetation can have a maximum concentration of 3.7 mg AI/L (Giesy et al. 2000). In natural habitats, Roundup has been detected at concentrations of 0.1 to 2.3 mg AI/L
(Newton et al. 1984; Goldsborough and Brown 1989; Feng et al. 1990; Horner 1990). At these concentrations, Roundup is moderately lethal or nonlethal to aquatic invertebrates (LC50 of 3.5 to 323 mg AI/L) and fish (LC50 of 2.8 to 25 mg AI/L). The few studies existing suggest that Roundup is moderately lethal to amphibians (LC5048-h = 1.5 to 15.5 mg AI/L; Giesy et al. 2000; Edginton et al. 2004). This moderate toxicity appears to be caused not by the active ingredient (glyphosate) but by the POEA surfactant (Mann and Bidwell 1999; Perkins et al. 2000; Tsui and Chu 2003).
The six species of larval amphibians breed at different times of the year, so I conducted 6 separate experiments. Each experiment used a randomized block design with each block containing a factorial combination of predator cues (present or absent) crossed with 6 concentrations of Roundup (0, 0.1, 1, 5, 10, and 20 mg AI/L). The 12 treatment combinations were replicated 4 times (4 spatial blocks) for a total of 48 experimental units/species. The experimental units were 10-L plastic tubs containing 7.8 L charcoal-filtered, UV-irradiated well water. All experiments were conducted at the University of Pittsburgh's Pymatuning Laboratory of Ecology during 2002.
I collected all 6 species of tadpoles as newly oviposited eggs in ponds and marshes from northwestern Pennsylvania (1 to 15 egg masses/species). Eggs were hatched in aged well water and kept predator naïve until used in the experiments. I initiated the experiments with tadpoles soon after hatching (Gosner 1960), i.e., stage 25. Initial mean mass ±1 SE: wood frogs 40 ± 0.3 mg; leopard frogs 25 ± 2.0 mg; toads 19 ± 1.0 mg; tree frogs 22 ± 2.0 mg; green frogs 14 ± 2.0 mg; and bullfrogs 9 ± 1.0 mg). Each tub contained 10 tad-poles, and the tadpoles were fed a daily ration of ground fish flakes (18% of their body mass). This ration was doubled halfway through the experiments to adjust for growth. Laboratory lighting was set at a day-to-night cycle of 14:10 hours. The experiment ran for 16 days to provide longer-than-typical (1 to 4 days) tests. Sixteen days is a large fraction of the larval period for some tadpole species (American toads and gray tree frogs) but a small fraction of the larval period for other species (green frogs and bullfrogs).
For the pesticide manipulations, I used a commercial form of glyphosate (Roundup) with a concentration of glyphosate (25.2% active ingredient, isopropylamine salt) that was confirmed using high-pressure liquid chromatography analyses (Mississippi State Chemical Laboratory). To achieve the desired glyphosate concentrations (20, 10, 5, 1, and 0.1 mg AI/L), I added 624, 312, 156, 31.2, and 3.1 ll of the Roundup solution, respectively. For the control treatments, I added 624 ll water. To prevent the tub water from fouling, I changed the water every 4 days and reapplied the chemical treatments (i.e., static-renewal tests). This protocol has been successfully used in several previous experiments without any problems of impaired water quality (e.g., decreased oxygen or increased ammonia; Relyea and Mills 2001; Relyea 2003, 2004a).
Predator cues were created by using caged predators, which emit chemical cues that diffuse through water and induce prey stress (Kats and Dill 1998; Relyea 2001, 2003). I chose adult red-spotted newts (Notophthalmus viridescens) as the predator because newts coexist with all six tadpole species. Newts were caged in 250-ml plastic cups (screened over the open end), and one caged newt was added to each tub assigned the predator treatment. The newts were fed conspecific tadpoles, approximately 100 mg tadpoles every 2 days. No-predator tubs received an empty cage that was lifted every 2 days to equalize disturbance across treatments.
The number of surviving tadpoles was counted each day and any dead tadpoles were removed. I measured the temperature and pH of
Table 1. The results (p values) of six separate repeated-measures ANOVAs from analyses of how six species of larval amphibians (in six separate experiments) survived under six concentrations of Roundup crossed with the presence or absence of predator cues with time
Green Gray American Leopard Wood Factors (df) Bullfrog frog treefrog toad frog frog Roundup (5) <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 Predator (1) 0.480 0.819 0.566 0.839 0.915 0.072 Roundup * Predator (5) 0.511 0.962 0.945 0.333 0.985 0.059 Time (15) <0.001 0.001 0.029 <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 Time * Roundup (75) 0.879 0.535 0.151 <0.001 0.004 <0.001 Time * predator (15) 0.809 1.000 0.974 0.407 0.074 0.001 Time * Roundup * predator (75) 0.993 0.963 0.898 0.503 0.667 <0.001
all tubs midway through the experiment (just before the second water change). The pH ranged from 7.8 to 8.3 among treatments. Temperature varied slightly among species, but the range for each species remained narrow among treatments (wood frogs 18.5 to 18.9°C, leopard frogs 18.6°C to 18.8°C, toads 20.1°C to 20.2°C, tree frogs 20.1°C to 20.3°C, green frogs 21.2°C to 21.3°C, and bullfrogs 21.3°C to 21.4°C). The experiments were terminated after 16 days.
Statistical Analysis
The response variable of interest was the proportion of tadpoles surviving in a tub. The treatments did not have homogeneous errors because survival under high concentrations of Roundup was 0% in all replicates (violating an assumption of parametric analyses). Thus, I conducted nonparametric analyses by first ranking the data and then conducting analyses of variance. The main effects of block and all two- and three-way block interactions with glyphosate and predators were not significant, so their degrees of freedom were pooled with the error term. To estimate LC50 values for each species, I used standard probit regression analyses.
Fig. 1. Survival (mean ± 1 SE) of tadpoles when exposed to a factorial combination of predator cues (absent = open symbols, present = closed symbols) crossed with six concentrations of Roundup. For these five species, there were no Roundup-by-predator interactions.
Roundup had significant effects on the survival of all six amphibian species (Table 1). For five of the six species (bullfrogs, green frogs, gray tree frogs, leopard frogs, and American toads), survival was affected by Roundup but not by predator cues or the Roundup-by-predator interaction (Fig. 1). All five species experienced 0% survival with 5 to 20 mg AI/L. At 1.0 and 0.1 mg AI/L, survival improved and was similar to controls (p > 0.1). The estimated LC5016-d values for the five species across both predator treatments ranged from 1.3 to 2.5 mg AI/L (Table 2).
In contrast to the other five species, wood frog survival was affected by Roundup, predator cues, and their interaction (Table 1 and Fig. 2). Survival was 0% in 5 to 20 mg AI/L regardless of predator treatment. However, at 1.0 mg AI/L, survival was 65% with predator cues absent but only 30% with predator cues present (p = 0.035). There also was a trend of lower survival with predators at 0.1 mg AI/L, but this trend was not significant (p = 0.304). At 0.1 mg AI/L, survival across predator treatments improved to 73%, which was still significantly lower than the 83% survival of controls (p = 0.010). The estimated LC50 for wood frogs was 1.32 mg/ L without predator cues and 0.55 mg AI/L with predator cues (Table 2).
Table 2. LC50 values for larval amphibians reared with different concentrations of Roundup
Species LC5016–d Bull frog 2.07 Green frog 2.17 Gray tree frogs 1.35 Leopard frogs 2.46 American toads 2.52 Wood frogs (no predator) 1.32 Wood frogs (caged predator) 0.55
The experiments indicated that the LC50 estimates for the six amphibian species ranged from 0.55 to 2.52 mg AI/L. Under current classifications, this means that Roundup is moderately toxic (1 to 10 mg AI/L) to highly toxic (0.1 to 1 mg AI/L) to these amphibians (Giesy et al. 2000). Previous work has concluded that Roundup is only slightly to moderately toxic to larval amphibians, but this work is based on relatively few species. In four species of Australian tadpoles (Crinia insignifera, Heleioporus eyrei, Limnodynastes dorsalis, and Litoria moorei), Mann and Bidwell (1999) estimated that the LC5048-h values ranged from 3.9 to 15.5 mg AI/L for Roundup, 108 to 161 mg AI/L for technical-grade glyphosate acid, and >450 mg AI/L for glyphosate isopropylamine salt (the latter two formulations lack the POEA surfactant). In Xenopus laevis tadpoles, LC5096-h values were 12.4 mg AI/L for Roundup, 6.8 mg/L for the POEA surfactant, and 9729 mg AI/L for Rodeo (a formulation that lacks any the POEA surfactant; Perkins et al. 2000). Another formulation of glyphosate (GLYFOS, a combination of glyphosate and the POEA surfactant) has been tested on South American tadpoles (Scinax nasicus) and found to have an LC5048-h of 1.74 mg AI/L (Lajmanovich et al. 2003). In experiments using Vision (a formulation that also includes the POEA surfactant) and three species of tadpoles from Canada (Bufo americanus, Rana pipiens, and R. clamitans), Edginton et al. (2004) found LC5096-h values of 1.5 to 4.7 mg AI/L. Thus, the LC50 values generated by the current study are relatively low compared with those reported in previous studies. These lower LC50 values are due, at least in part, to the longer duration of the current study. In addition, the previously mentioned studies suggest that the POEA surfactant, rather than the active ingredient (glyphosate), is the likely cause of the high toxicity of Roundup.
Although there are few data on the effects of Roundup on amphibians, there are numerous data on the impact of Roundup on other organisms. Giesy et al. (2000) recently completed an extensive review of the glyphosate literature. They found that Roundup is practically nontoxic to birds (based on 3 species) and mammals (based on 5 species). The toxicity of Roundup is variable for freshwater fish (based on 11 species), ranging from moderately toxic in bluegill sunfish (Lepomis macrochirus; LC5096-h of 2.8 mg AI/L) to slightly toxic in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss; LC5096-h of 25 mg AI/L). For aquatic invertebrates (based on 8 species), Roundup ranges from moderately toxic in crayfish (Orconectes nais; LC5096-h of 3.5 mg AI/L) to practically nontoxic in mosquito larvae (Anopheles quadrimaculatus; LC5024-h of 323 mg AI/L; Giesy et al. 2000). If we estimate the toxicity to amphibians using these data for fish and aquatic invertebrates, we would expect glyphosate to be slightly to moderately toxic to amphibians. However, the current study found that glyphosate is moderately to highly toxic to amphibians.
Fig. 2. Survival (mean ± 1 SE) of wood frog tadpoles when exposed to a factorial combination of predator cues (absent = open symbols, present = closed symbols) crossed with six concentrations of Roundup. For this species, there was a significant Roundup-by-predator interaction.
By comparing the LC50 values of the six species with the maximum concentrations in wetlands, we can assess the potential impact of Roundup on amphibians in nature. For a water body 15 cm deep with no overhead vegetation (a condition in which many amphibians live), the maximum concentration of Roundup is estimated to be 3.7 mg AI/L (Giesy et al. 2000), and observed concentrations range from 0.1 to 2.3 mg AI/L (Newton et al. 1984; Goldsborough and Brown 1989; Feng et al. 1990; Horner 1990). Based on the probit regression analyses in this study, 3.7 mg AI/L would kill 90% to 100% of tadpoles from all six species. At 2.3 mg AI/L, Roundup has the potential to kill 40% to 98% of the individuals of all six species. Thus, at the high end of observed concentrations, Roundup has the potential to cause widespread death in amphibians. However, recent experiments using field enclosures and the glyphosate formulation Vision, researchers found no significant impact of the herbicide on larval leopard frogs and green frogs in Canada (Thompson et al. 2004; Wojtaszek et al. 2004). Given the highly variable results of glyphosate formulations on larval amphibians, it is clear that much more work needs to be conducted to arrive at a general consensus of the impacts on amphibians. Moreover, whether deaths from a pesticide actually contribute to amphibian declines depends critically on whether pesticide-related death is additive or compensatory with other natural causes of death (e.g., predation, disease).
In one of the six species (wood frogs), Roundup became twice as toxic when combined with predator-induced stress. Although the mechanism underlying this synergy is unknown, previous work has shown that the synergy is not caused by caged predators altering the concentrations of ammonia or dissolved oxygen in the water (Relyea and Mills 2001; Relyea 2003, 2004a). This synergy between pesticides and predator cues was first discovered for the insecticide carbaryl (a carbamate that inhibits acetylcholine esterase, commercial name Sevin). Carbaryl became more deadly to tadpoles of gray tree frogs, bullfrogs, and green frogs when combined with the chemical cues emitted by salamander predators (Notophthalmus viridescens and Ambystoma maculatum [Relyea and Mills 2001; Relyea 2003]). A subsequent series of experiments with malathion (an organophosphate that also inhibits acetylcholine esterase) also found synergistic interactions, but only for gray tree frogs (Relyea 2004a). The discovery of synergistic interactions between predator cues and Roundup indicates that the phenomenon is not restricted to carbaryl and malathion (and possibly other carbamates and organophosphates). Rather, it suggests that predatory stress may make a variety of pesticides more deadly to amphibians. This is important because most amphibians live with the stress of predators. Although the study of synergistic interactions between pesticides and predator stress has currently only focused on amphibians, there is no inherent reason to believe that the synergies cannot happen in other taxonomic groups. Moreover, synergistic interactions with Roundup are not restricted to predatory stress. For example, Tsui and Chu (2003) recently demonstrated that zooplankton (Ceriodaphnia dubia) experience synergistic interactions between Roundup and suspended soil particles and between Roundup and pH. In short, numerous potential synergistic interactions exist between pesticides and natural ecologic environments.
The results also underscore the importance of running toxicity experiments for longer than the typical 1- to 4-day duration. For some species, extending the duration of exposure had minimal effects on survival. However, for other species, extending the exposure time had a profound negative effect.
For example, wood frog survival was excellent (100%) during the first 4 days with 1 mg AI/L. By day 6, however, survival began to decrease; after 16 days survival was decreased to 65% without predator cues and to only 30% with predator cues. Although we expect higher death rates with increased exposure duration (Cooney 1995), it is not clear why some species' death rates increase only marginally while other species' death rates increase substantially. Exposure times to Roundup may be short under high pH conditions, but Roundup breaks down much more slowly under low pH conditions, thus causing longer exposure times (USEPA 1992; Giesy et al. 2000). In short, by running experiments for longer durations, we can observe substantially higher estimates of a pesticide's toxicity (Relyea and Mills 2001; Relyea 2003, 2004a).
The global decline of amphibians is of paramount importance to both scientists and the general public (Pechmann et al. 1991; Blaustein et al. 1994; Pechmann and Wilbur 1994; Wake 1998; Houlihan et al. 2001). Like most biological problems, the causes are multifaceted and complex (Alford and Richards 1999; Kiesecker et al. 2001; Berger et al. 1998; Blaustein and Kiesecker 2002). Recent studies have implicated pesticides as important players in amphibian declines (Bishop et al. 1999; LeNoir et al. 1999; Sparling et al. 2001; Relyea and Mills 2001; Davidson et al. 2002; Hayes et al. 2002), yet we have suffered from a lack of data on how most globally common pesticides affect amphibian survival. The current study demonstrates that when we use realistic exposure times and the frequently occurring stress of predators found in natural ecologic communities, one of our most widely applied herbicides (Roundup) has the potential to kill many species of amphibians. Given that 6 to 9 million kg glyphosate are currently used annually across >8 million ha in the United States (Aspelin and Grube 1999; National Pesticide Use Database, www.ncfap.org/database/default.htm), Roundup with the POEA surfactant has the potential to play a major role in amphibian declines. How-ever, it is worthy to note that the manufacturer of Roundup (Monsanto Corp.) has recently released an additional formulation of glyphosate (Roundup Biactive), which contains a different (but unspecified) surfactant that is reported to be less toxic (Tsui and Chu 2003). The impact of this new formulation is certainly worthy of testing on larval amphibians.
Acknowledgments. My thanks to Josh Auld, Jason Hoverman, Laura Howell, Adam Marko, Christine Relyea, and Nancy Schoeppner for assisting with the experiments. I thank Josh Auld, Jason Hoverman, April Randle, and Nancy Schoeppner for reviewing the manuscript. This research was supported by the National Science Foundation.
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