Re: Re: CULT: Preemergent vs. Postemergent herbicides and health

Betty  --  OT, who happened to be visiting me when your message (below) came
in, read it over my shoulder with great interest.  Though not originally
from our planet, he has absorbed a lot of knowledge about gardening in the
time that he has been here.  "Ha!", he exclaimed, "the gentleman who
presented the Roundup program is a charlatan.  Suppose someone had taken him
up on his offer to drink it.  We all know how Roundup works.  Unless he was
giving his program outside in the hot sun, it probably wouldn't have
affected him at all.  And if it did affect him, it would be at least two
days before his hair started drying up, and possibly a week before he
withered away all together.  By then, his listeners would have been out
putting Roundup all over their lots.  His company should be ashamed of
itself."

Well, I couldn't argue with that, but it recalled to me the time a few years
ago when a new, agressive breed of bird watchers showed up in our area and
attempted to end the waterfowl hunting that has been going on here since
before George Washington was a boy, and which was one of his favorite
pastimes as an adult.  One day, while my partner and I were hunting from his
blind about 100 yards offshore near the end of my street, the birdwatchers
showed up along with a game warden.  The warden was there because he had to
respond to a call from a local politician who was indebted to the
birdwatchers for campaign support.  Although he explained to the
birdwatchers that the blind was legal, that it faced the river, not the
shore, and that a hunter would have to climb up on the gun rail and aim
backwards over the roof in order to fire toward the shore, the birdwatchers
still maintained that the blind posed a threat to people on the shore.
Finally, the warden, using his bullhorn, asked one of us to come to shore.
My buddy, John the Mudcrawler, got in the boat and rowed ashore.  There, the
warden invited one of us to shoot at him to demonstrate that he couldn't be
hurt at that distance.  The birdwatchers fled. You had to love the guy.  --
Griff

zone 7 in Virginia


----- Original Message -----
From: <Autmirislvr@aol.com>
To: <iris@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: [iris] Re: CULT: Preemergent vs. Postemergent herbicides and
health


> In a message dated 9/30/2005 5:26:12 P.M. Central Standard Time,
> richter@eecs.berkeley.edu writes:
>
> <<postemergents such as RoundUp.>>
> Several years ago, I went to an iris program on RoundUp. It was given  by
a
> toxicologist/iris hybridizer.  This gentleman told us that RoundUp was
> basically non-toxic to people.  He even offered to drink a  portion to
prove how
> harmless it is.
>
> At the time, I'd never used RoundUp, and, in recent years, I often think
> about this program.
>
>
>
>
> Betty W. in  South-central KY Zone 6
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