Citizens,
As Rick recently corrected Mr. West, the harmful effects of RoundUp can
occur at very minute levels. And in my past review of the literature, I
recall that the breakdown of the active poison can take more like a
week, despite the corporate marketing about drying time.
When trouble occurs with corporate products, the first denial centers on
victims using the product differently from recommended guidelines.
During the drenching of Clark Park over the past ten years, a couple of
6" x 6" plaques from TruGreen are placed at a couple of the entrances in
the park. In very small print, the only warning simply says, "Please
stay off grass until dry."
The use of herbicides on suburban private property is very different
than use on an urban neighborhood park used by thousands of people over
a single weekend! If some silly suburbanite hires TruGreen to poison
the lawn around his isolated castle, presumably that family knows the
poison is coming and these tiny plaques at least inform the family of
the application.
When I've discovered these plaques over the years in Clark Park, I've
done so only because I used to enter the park multiple times a day. The
vast majority of the people of West Philly would not have been likely to
see these plaques on any occasion they happen to wander into the park
and lie down in the grass with the children and dogs. It is likely that
many local people have been exposed to the wet chemical immediately
after its use, that even the corporation warns against! (Sam rolls in
the wet grass and I then get it through kissing and hugging his wet fur.)
The vast majority of Clark Park users don't know they've been exposed!
Based on my observation of the pattern over multiple years, it seems
that Clark Park has received this "treatment" at least once each spring
and fall! That's when I've discovered the plaques, but I've been barred
from the secret meetings for a decade. (UCD/FOCP officially blame and
Fentonize the TruGreen employee for putting the wrong plaques out when
distributing "organic fertilizer.") Hahaha, that guy seems to screw up
each spring and fall and organic fertilizer kills a hell of a lot of
plant species as well as the soil. If Tony, Chance, Halligan and Brian
were Monty Python characters, maybe this would all be funny!
What idiots thought that this suburban business model with unacceptable
notification was adequate warning for a heavily used urban park??? I
haven't talked to a single person outside of the FOCP gang that thinks
using herbicide AT ALL is a reasonable policy for any Philadelphia
park! Have any of you? Are Dandelion and Clover flowers that
oppressively ugly to you that massive killing is justified even if the
poison was safe???
I consider this indiscriminate slaughter of life around the planet to be
a most vile sin. It is an act of murder against the earth goddess and
contempt for the sanctity of all life.
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