Overview
Municipalities have Anti-Pesticide Nazis operating to enforce PESTICIDE BANS.
In Richmond, British Columbia, eagle-eyed Anti-Pesticide Nazis conduct BLITZKRIEGS on the streets, and hand out COMPLIANCE INSTRUCTIONS and HORRIFIC FINES to residents and Professional Lawn Care businesses.
Because of PESTICIDE BANS, the owners, employees, and families dependent on professional lawn care businesses have faced terror, despair and destitution.
PESTICIDE BANS result in CATASTROPHIC CARNAGE caused not only by HORRIFIC FINES, but also by BUSINESS FAILURES, GARBAGE DUMP GREEN SPACES, STUNNINGLY EXORBITANT COSTS, and even ILLNESS and DEATH.
Pesticide Ban Trend
Anti-Pesticide Nazis in
Richmond, British Columbia
Beware !
Your municipality may have Anti-Pesticide Nazis operating soon.
Richmond, British Columbia, with a population of almost 190,000, is generally recognized as that part of « Metro Vancouver » that contains the airport and the 2010 Olympic Oval facility.
It may soon be better known for a negative than those two positives !
In Richmond, by-law officers ( a.k.a. anti-pesticide Nazis ) are on the lookout for lawn law-breakers and guerilla gardeners USING ILLEGAL PESTICIDES to spruce up their gardens and grass.
Weekend yard patrols are scheduled throughout the summer, according to a report presented to a Richmond City Council Committee on July 3rd, 2012.
The target ?
Home-owners and landscapers spraying their lawn with products like Killex or Weed 'N' Feed — products BANNED under Richmond’s needless, senseless and malicious prohibition against pest control products used in the urban landscape.
Blitzkrieg
According to the report, eagle-eyed by-law officers conducted a BLITZKRIEG on the streets on Saturday, May 26th, 2012, and handed out « compliance instructions » to 27 residents and six landscaping firms, and fines were issued.
The fines are $100 dollars for the first offence, $500 dollars for the second, and $1,000 dollars for the third.
Richmond’s ANTI-PESTICIDE PROHIBITION applies to residential and city property, but excludes industries like farms, golf courses, and indoor extermination that use the very same ingredients as professional lawn care companies, as well as individual homeowners.
Although the use of pest control products is BANNED for so-called cosmetic reasons in Richmond, local retailers are still permitted to sell the chemicals.
FORCE OF NATURE — VIOLATING PROHIBITION — 2012 07 09 — ANTI-PESTICIDE NAZIS TERRORIZE HOMEOWNERS & BUSINESSES — RICHMOND, BRITISH COLUMBIA ( Reports )
VIOLATING PROHIBITION – BLITZKRIEGS AND TERRORISM BY ANTI-PESTICIDE NAZIS
Special Committee on Cosmetic Pesticides
Nonetheless, on May 17th, 2012, British Columbia’s Special Committee on Cosmetic Pesticides stopped the trend towards needless, senseless and malicious prohibition.
The Special Committee announced that it would NOT RECOMMEND PROHIBITION against pest control products used in the urban landscape.
PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA – SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON COSMETIC PESTICIDES ( Web-Page )
Canadian Consumer Specialty Products Association
Furthermore, a recent poll conducted by Canadian Consumer Specialty Products Association ( CCSPA ) con-firmed that the vast majority of residents in British Columbia are opposed to the prohibition of conventional pest control products, and they actually favor the continued use of these products around their homes and in public green spaces.
THE WISDOM OF CANADIAN CONSUMER SPECIALTY PRODUCTS ASSOCIATION – THE PUBLIC DOES NOT WANT PESTICIDE BANS ( Web-Page )
Carnage
PESTICIDE BANS result in CATASTROPHIC CARNAGE caused by business failures, garbage dump green spaces, stunningly exorbitant costs, horrific fines, and even illness and death.
PESTICIDE BANS have inflicted carnage in jurisdictions such as Halifax Regional Municipality, and the Provinces of Québec and Ontario.
Because of PESTICIDE BANS, the owners, employees, and families dependent on professional lawn care businesses have faced terror, despair and destitution.
CARNAGE CAUSED BY CATASTROPHIC ANTI-PESTICIDE PROHIBITION ( Web-Page )
Art C. Drysdale
The nation’s best-known celebrity horticulturist, plant expert, writer, speaker, radio and television broadcaster
Art C. Drysdale
Media highlights and accomplishments
Mr. Drysdale is one of Canada’s best-known horticulturists.
Mr. Drysdale is best known for his syndicated radio show and commercials for the Garden Claw.
For the past four decades, he has been writing, and presenting radio and television broadcasts, with PRACTICAL GARDENING HINTS on stations such as CFRB, AM740 and CFCA.
His radio GARDENING VIGNETTES are heard throughout South-Western Ontario over two radio stations ―
● Easy 101 FM out of Tillsonburg at 2:00 PM weekdays
● CD98.9 FM out of Norfolk County at 11:40 AM weekdays
Mr. Drysdale also presented all of Canada’s Weather Network GARDENING VIGNETTES, hourly from April to October annually for a decade.
He was the spokesman for the Garden Claw across the country.
As a speaker, Mr. Drysdale has addressed amateur and professional groups all across Canada, as well as in the United States, England, Holland, Switzerland, Australia, South Africa, and aboard cruise ships.
Art C. Drysdale
Fields of study and alma mater
1958 – 1961 ― Mr. Drysdale attended The Niagara Parks Commission School of Gardening ( now NPC Botanical Garden and School of Horticulture ), where he won all five awards presented at the graduation. He initiated and edited the school’s first yearbook.
1957 ― He graduated from East York Collegiate with the Ontario Secondary School Honour Graduation Diploma.
1955 – 1969 ― He was active and held several executive positions in the East York Garden Club.
Art C. Drysdale
Notable work at Shur-Gain
March 1961 – August 1962 ― After graduation, Mr. Drysdale worked with the Shur-Gain Division of Canada Packers where he …
● consulted with consumers and the turf industry
● developed new consumer fertilizer products ( Feed ‘n Weedaway )
● wrote various consumer literature
Art C. Drysdale
Notable work with Sheridan Nurseries
1962 – 1969 ― Mr. Drysdale was then employed with Sheridan Nurseries Limited.
Drysdale was Chief Horticulturist and Advertising Manager, with full responsibility for Sheridan catalogues and botanical nomenclature.
Art C. Drysdale
Notable work with Parks/Recreation Association
1964 ― Mr. Drysdale was appointed part-time Executive Director and Editor with the Canadian Parks/Recreation Association ( CP/RA ), with the office in his home.
1969 – 70 ― He was employed full-time as Executive Director of Canadian Parks/Recreation Association, and Editor of Recreation Canada magazine.
Early 1971 ― He set up Canadian Parks/Recreation Association’s first permanent office in Ottawa.
Art C. Drysdale
Notable work with Garden Writers Association
1973 ― Mr. Drysdale was appointed Regional Director ( Canada ) of the Garden Writers Association of America ( GWAA ).
1979 – 1981 ― He served as President of the Garden Writers Association of America, and was the first-ever Canadian to hold the office, representing over 1,000 members, mostly in the U.S.A.
Art C. Drysdale
Notable work with publications
December 1963 – March 1969 ― Mr. Drysdale wrote a feature column for a new magazine, CANADIAN NURSERYMAN. He was also a member of the founding committee.
1971 – 1978 ― He free-lanced as a horticultural writer, and published/edited RECREATION CANADA magazine.
Art C. Drysdale
Notable work with books
March 1975 ― Dent Canada published Mr. Drysdale’s book GARDENING OFF THE GROUND that he wrote on the invitation of the publisher. It was the first Canadian book for balcony gardeners.
July 1996 ― He self-published his book GARDENING OFF THE GROUND in a completely revised and enlarged version, including his own colour photos.
GARDENING OFF THE GROUND is Canada’s most successful and most practical book on container gardening.
April 2012 ― In 2012, Mr. Drysdale rereleased a NEW EDITION of GARDENING OFF THE GROUND.
It has 168 pages, 70 sketches, six pages of colour photos and cover photo of my balcony. Now, breaking news,
Mr. Drysdale also converted the book into an e-book which avoids all the costs of printing, shipping and handling.
For a copy, simply send Mr. Drysdale an e-mail to art@artdrysdale.com OR call this Toronto number 647-977-7507.
Art C. Drysdale
Mr. Drysdale today
A life-long resident of Toronto, Mr. Drysdale is now a resident of Parksville, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island, just north of Nanaimo.
He has renovated an old home and has a new garden there.
Art C. Drysdale
Drysdale’s Wisdom
In his daily radio GARDENING VIGNETTES, and his weekly I-CAN-GARDEN BLOG, Mr. Drysdale has effectively and consistently spoken out against activists and anti-pesticide prohibitions.
Art C. Drysdale
Pest Control Products Are Scientifically Safe
The following LEADING EXPERTS have recognized expertise, training and background in matters concerning pest control products.
These EXPERTS have publicly stated, in one form or another, that pest control products are SCIENTIFICALLY-SAFE ―
● AMES, Bruce N., Professor
● BRANHAM, Bruce, Professor
● DOST, Frank N., Doctor
● DRYSDALE, Art C., Horticulturist
● EDWARDS, J. Gordon, Doctor
● FELSOT, Allan S., Professor
● HOLLAND, John J., Communications Director
● MILLOY, Steven J., Juris Doctor
● RITTER, Leonard, Doctor
● ROSS, Gilbert L., Doctor
● SCHWARCZ, Joseph A., Doctor
● SOLOMON, Keith R., Professor
● STEPHENSON, Gerald R., Professor
● SWITZER, Clayton M., Doctor
● WHELAN, Elizabeth M., Doctor
● WOOD, Joel, Doctor
THE WISDOM OF DRYSDALE, ART C. – CELEBRITY EXPERT HORTICULTURIST ( Web-Page )
For the original copy of this Force Of Nature Report, go to the following link …
NORAHG has archived more information on The Pesticide Truths Web-Site …
THE PESTICIDE TRUTHS WEB-SITE
THE WISDOM OF CANADIAN CONSUMER SPECIALTY PRODUCTS ASSOCIATION – THE PUBLIC DOES NOT WANT PESTICIDE BANS ( Web-Page )
THE WISDOM OF DRYSDALE, ART C. – CELEBRITY EXPERT HORTICULTURIST ( Web-Page )
THE WISDOM OF HEPWORTH, LORNE – THE NATION'S MOST EFFECTIVE AND CONSISTENT SPOKESMAN ( Web-Page )
THE WISDOM OF HOLLAND, JOHN J. – THE NATION'S MOST ELOQUENT AND INTELLIGENT WRITER ( Web-Page )
THE WISDOM OF MAINS, HOWARD ( Web-Page )
THE WISDOM OF SOLOMONS, KEITH R. AND SANDRA ( Web-Page )
THE WISDOM OF THE FRASER INSTITUTE ( Web-Page )
THE WISDOM OF ELIZABETH M. WHELAN AND AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH ( ACSH, Web-Page )
PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA – CONSPIRACY TO PROHIBIT PEST CONTROL PRODUCTS IN THE URBAN LANDSCAPE ( Web-Page )
PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA – COQUITLAM, CITY OF – AN ENVIRONMENT THAT IS UNHAPPY, UGLY, UNEMPLOYED, UNENLIGHTENED, AND UNHEALTHY ( Web-Page )
PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA – COQUITLAM, CITY OF – REFERENCES FOR LITIGATION ( Web-Page )
PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA – KELOWNA, CITY OF – ANTI-PESTICIDE WOMEN COUNCILLORS ( Web-Page )
PROVINCE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA – SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON COSMETIC PESTICIDES ( Web-Page )
VIOLATING FEDERAL LAW – LYING AND CHEATING WITH PEST CONTROL PRODUCTS ( Web-Page )
VIOLATING PROHIBITION – BLITZKRIEGS AND TERRORISM BY ANTI-PESTICIDE NAZIS
PESTICIDE BANS ARE A FARCE ( Report )
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