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A herbicide is a pesticide leilanidude.
A pesticicide may be a insecticide, herbicide, fungicide, nematicide, a rodenticide, or others.
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Go ahead with the ban hammer but add the communication that will mean parks and roads have funding and authorization to hire armies of weed whacker, brush hauling, and compost trucking workers along with the added equipment, the two stroke fuel they will be using, and the maintenance of the added fuel burning equipment. The reason herbicide is used is to reduce labor costs. If ballooning labor costs are pocket change for this county, so be it.
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If ballooning labor costs are pocket change for this county, so be it.
Guaranteed employment. Eventually, County maintenance crews can employ half the island, to keep it looking nice for the other half.
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quote:
Originally posted by kalakoa
If ballooning labor costs are pocket change for this county, so be it.
Guaranteed employment. Eventually, County maintenance crews can employ half the island, to keep it looking nice for the other half.
If it is a jobs program, why not just say it? Why continue to spread lies and misinformation about chemistry as a cause? What is it around here, every word has to be turned around to mean its opposite? Why does every "movement" have to be surrounded with deceit, deception, treachery? Activists are actually obstructionists. Protectors are just pretenders. You can see the payola line in all these protests, using the smokescreen of scapegoat fat cat local as the one to condemn, while receiving an envelope of untraceable cash in their hand behind their back. Organic means using poop for fertilizer and a wide range of toxic minerals as herbicides and pesticides. This is in line with the paranoia of chemistry with these groups. They use chemistry on a macro level, then freak out if processes can be refined at a molecular level. All of this stuff boils down to one thing, since many of the manipulating people involved behind the curtain are mainland transplants: total failure of the Amerikan education system.
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If it is a jobs program, why not just say it?
Socialism bad. Hot-button wedge issues good.
total failure of the Amerikan education system.
No, it's working exactly as designed: the point is to teach children how to be institutionalized into a factory and/or prison. Look no further than the ever-more-common "random" shootings to measure how well the system is working.
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" expose potential homeless campers"
let me guess...they were naturists?
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I thought I would share a little regarding the recent IARC pesticide evaluations
The IARC assesses potential cancer hazards whereas various regulatory agencys around the world (EPA, FDA, USDA in the U.S.) assess cancer risks.
In light of this I think its appropriate to share the difference between hazards and risks.
A hazard is something with the potential to cause harm. For example,
Some hazards would be:
-Driving on the road
-Shaving your face
-Using a blowdryer
A risk is the chance you will be harmed. For example,
Some risks would be:
-Driving in a blizzard
-Shaving a bear
-Using a blowdryer while in the bathtub
Thank you, I hope this helps you understand the meaning of the IARC classifications.
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A good opinion article in today's Trib.
By Curtis Beck
Well, we cannot say we didn’t see this coming. Fresh off her successful gambit to remove the word from the county’s budgetary lexicon, Margaret Wille and her rag-tag band of enviro-alarmist supporters have just rolled out the next salvo in the “War on Roundup”(also known as glyphosphate).
"The opening salvo was to rename a county budget item from Roundup to the more bureaucratic-sounding term, “vegetation management.” Now that the public has been mesmerized by this use of politically correct sleight-of-hand, Bill 71 will re-define the term “vegetation management,” as it relates to the county’s weed control efforts, to exclude the use of its most cost-effective management tool."
More here :
http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/comm...ar-roundup
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Hawaii residents want pesticide alert!!
This is for ElysianWort.
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Yeah we do. Lots of us. Not talking about alerting when an individual treats for fire ants or casual homeowners toxic Roundup use but whenever it's done on a large scale. Farms, nurseries, roadside county spraying, etc. Some of us don't want to breath it. Look at the labels on the back of those bottles. They are SCARY!
So by saying everything is toxic when you get enough of it, even water - very weak argument. Bet you wouldn't want to take a spoonful of some herbicide before you go to bed or wash your hair in it? How much water would you need to get sick? I've heard of a college hazing where they forced some poor kid to drink water and he wound up dying but only after a ridiculous amount. How much water would get you sick when you soaked your hands in it?
NONE.
I know of individuals, ex-professional tree trimmers who are very sick with neurological damage after a few years of herbicide use. A bit too much dripped on his hands or he breathed too much.
It is toxic stuff, including Roundup and the huge lawsuit coming up next month will start to open peoples eyes a bit more. Many other countries have banned Roundups use. Hello? Wake up people, the big money giants, like Monsanto, want to hide any evidence that their chemicals do damage and sell you more. And more. Then some more.
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