Re: [SG] hello
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Re: [SG] hello
- From: m* l*
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 08:37:39 -0600
- References: <344b8685.24d2d8ec@aol.com>
At 10:00 AM 7/30/99 -0400, you wrote:
>>I can't use round up or anything like that I have been hand pulling and so
>>has my wife.
>>I used to work for a major lawn and tree care company here in the No East
and
>>my liver is messed up from all the herbicides and pesticides I was exposed
>>to. I now am totally natural or organic.
>
>Let's all think long and hard about this post. Garden Guy, you have our
>sympathy and best wishes. Your experience has a lesson in it for all of us.
>
>Bill Shear
>Department of Biology
>Hampden-Sydney College
>Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
>(804)223-6172
>FAX (804)223-6374
>email<bills@hsc.edu>
>
Yes, I found it very disturbing. EPA or any other govt. agency doesn't
seem to be effective at protecting the sprayees or the sprayers. I got a
faceful of insecticide on a "non windy" day while griping about their
spraying when my dog was outside. Lawn care company brought me unwanted
surprises: field bindweed and Canada thistle. Then the neighbor's lawn
spray people used my patch of violas odoratas for a urinal. Now there's
nobody to complain to...this is not a political statement, I think the
government's impotence is bipartisan. Margaret L
