On 05/06/2014 05:45 AM, Richard J. Williams wrote:
On 5/5/2014 10:54 PM, awoelfleba...@yahoo.com wrote:
On 5/5/2014 11:48 AM, Bhairitu wrote:
> Perhaps you ought to read up of glyphosates.
>
It's just that most folks around here don't think it's important to take
up arms to oppose the use of Roundup in gardens. Go figure.
We can hardly find Roundup any more in Victoria. It has been pretty
much banned at the strength you used to be able to buy it. My
husband, because he is a lawn fanatic, loves the stuff. I forbid him
to use it and luckily he has a hard time getting his hands on it. But
like any addict, he usually finds some source - in this case another
woman who owns a sheep farm and can get the industrial strength stuff.
>
It's probably not going to kill you, Ann, unless you eat the grass or
use your lawn as a table. Roundup works pretty good on sidewalks and
driveways to kill unsightly weeds, but I wouldn't drink the stuff.
It gets into the water supply through runoff.
Some people around here have cesspools in the ground because they
don't have access to city waste facilities and they have wells to get
drinking water. You put the cesspools and the water wells too close
together and then spray Roundup all over, you're bound to get some bad
effects!
That way too though the small town I grew up put in a sewer system so
the well water wouldn't be contaminated.
Some city people have to drink tap water from a recycling plant. Or,
they buy Ozarka bottled water by the case. I wonder what happens to
all those plastic bottles? Somewhere I read that most bottled water
is really tap water. Go figure.
Most people recycle them. But it used to be easier to do that at the
grocery store. Unless the water is poured hot into the bottle you
aren't probably going to get much plastic. But we probably don't need
fluoride (also a glyphosate) in the water anymore. That was just a scam
by the aluminum companies to make money off their waste.
These days though, it's the monkeys flying out of my butt that I worry
about. They are all going down the toilet along with the crap - I
wonder what that does to the ground water used for drinking or growing
food?
I live near a creek that has the reputation of having "creek monkeys"
that escaped from a circus decades ago and there is a legend that they
lived for years near creek. Hmm, I might be able to turn that into a
b-movie horror film.
