Smart Louisianians

While studying, I ran across this tidbit from the Morning Advocate in 1979:

Agriculture Commissioner Gil Dozier says he is willing to write off a northeast Louisiana lake in order to allow cotton farmers near the lake to spay toxaphen to kill bugs.
Lake Providence is contaminated with the pesticide to the point that eating a fish from it would be inviting cancer. Dozier insists it poses no danger to human health so long as fishing is banned.

Wow. Yeah. It's okay to pollute as long as you avoid the fish. I'd avoid fish in northeast Louisiana if I were you.