As Kolbert points out, 1080 interferes with energy production — it is a universal metabolic poison that can kill birds and insects, even the maggots that would scavenge the corpses.
If there is no global response to this breaching of a universal taboo on using poison gas, the world will be a much more dangerous place.
It was the Red Line drawn by the world, by the international community -- both legally by international treaty, and morally by universal revulsion against the use of poison gas by Assad.
But now that life without parole is a universal fact, the shooting, electrocution or poisoning of criminals subject to permanent custody has become an exceedingly burdensome artifact.
In view of the nearly universal use of insecticides that are liver poisons, it is noteworthy that a sharp rise in hepatitis began during the nineteen-fifties and is continuing a fluctuating climb.
The fact that every meal we eat carries its load of chlorinated hydrocarbons is the inevitable consequence of the almost universal spraying or dusting of agricultural crops with these poisons.
Poison in the Well is quintessential Bell, addressing universal themes with simple words and familiar images.
Allied military intervention, better late than never, is necessary to avoid future atrocities, spare innocent lives – and neutralise the vicious poison that everywhere is corroding faith in the universal rights of man, the international order, and international law.
Experimenting with different formulations and trying them out on condemned prisoners, he compounded various antidotes to produce a single universal one, which he hoped would protect him against any poison.
