Brian Fredericksen wrote:

> Sir you are partially incorrect: (do you own stock in these chem companies you seem so fond of ?) 

Wish I did, especially Monsanto. Unbelievable return on investment 
over the past couple of years.

The key is still that the so called cosmetic chemicals are still not 
banned but have to be identified and the reasons for banning backed up 
by at least bad science. And that will not happen until next April.

Which, and I repeat for the umpteenth time, was the whole reason for 
all the posts on this subject, your desire to ban all "cosmetic" lawn 
chemical, science be damned. Even the Canadians disagree with that 
since they have exceptions and those nasty chemicals will still be 
manufactured and used in Canada.

And, if you did look at all the posts I have made on the BeeL you 
would know that I practice organic farming and do not use pesticides. 
But what I do as a small gardener has little carryover to large 
farming operations, just as what I do as a two to four colony hobby 
beekeeper has little to do with an outfit with 30,000 colonies.

What I defend is not the large chemical companies, but the Luddite 
approach that some have toward manufactured chemicals and the painting 
of LARGE CORPORATIONS as totally bereft of any moral or scientific 
base. There are examples of that, but if you pick up your local paper 
you will see small time lapses of the same morality. The reason they 
make the papers are that they are the exception.

Truth is, I have no problem if the whole of Canada bans all pesticides 
for any use. They could even ban free speech.... but then again, they 
already have.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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