Editor:
Re: The April 1 letter from Jacquie Doherty of Grassroots Liquid Fertilizer and Weed Control (‘No need for a provincewide cosmetic-pesticide ban,’).
I strongly disagree with not having a complete-pesticide ban.
Doherty states: “Ramming through such a ban just to strengthen his tenure would certainly prove [Environment Minister Terry] Lake is not capable of handling this important decision.”
I am not a B.C. Liberal and I not defending Lake, though I think he is moving forward in this decision for the sake of our children, pets and the environment. This has been on the province’s to-do list for at least five years.
Doherty also states there is no need for a knee-jerkdecision and says we must rely on experts in this field— not the Canadian Cancer Society. The OntarioCollege of Family Physicians states pesticides cannot beconsidered safe at any level of exposure. The federalgovernment states pesticides registered for sale inCanada are not deemed safe, but permits the sale ofcigarettes in Canada.
OCFP REPORT COMMENTS : http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/pest/faq-eng.php#has
SAFE TO USE PESTICIDE 2,4-D http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/pest/faq-eng.php#isitsafe
If you think 2-4-D is safe, please give your head ashake because we all know that, when you have to weara mask, protective clothing and be regulated to apply this product, it is definitely not safe.
SAFE TO USE PESTICIDE 2,4-D http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/pest/faq-eng.php#isitsafe
Lawn care (all users, homeowner and professionally applied) uses more than eight times pesticides per area thandoes a farmer — just to grow grass.
Where does the excess go? It either washes off the lawn and goes directly down the storm drain, where it generallypasses directly into local waterways, or it leaches it way down into the water table.
Is the solution in Turf Logics Lawn Products? His Products do not leach into the waterways? Studies have been conducted on this claim: Brian Horgan discusses this here :
Pamela J. Rice, Brian P. Horgan, Cathleen J. Hapeman and Laura L. McConnell (2011). Efficacy of Management Practices to Mitigate the Off-Site Movement and Ecological Risk of Pesticides Transported with Runoff from Agricultural and Turf Systems, Pesticides – Formulations, Effects, Fate, Margarita Stoytcheva (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-532-7, InTech, Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/efficacy-of-management-practices-to-mitigate-the-off-site-movement-and-ecological-risk-of-pesticides
We all know these pesticides are not safe nor for us, our children, our pets or our environment, so let’s make achange in our world and start preventing the problem and stop treating the symptoms with these harsh chemicals.
SAFE TO USE PESTICIDE 2,4-D http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/pest/faq-eng.php#isitsafe
SAFE FOR PETs? http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/pest/faq-eng.php#aremy
Tony Costantino
TNT Landscape and Lawncare
Kamloops
Tony, Just to let you know : 2,4-D usage is Safe for your Lawn, Safe on Your FOOD and Safe in Your Drinking Water.
