Actually Tony wrote me offline and gave me whatever information he had that the FOCP was not involved and had no knowledge in the chemical spray of Roundup® during the Clark Park renovation.
That is not to say I should excuse him or Frank. Those of us who are volunteers in community associations must take the rap, as it were, for things which we may not have approved during our term but for what happened while we were involved when community members ask for information. Apparently, the latest link supports my original link. Even though I have no nickel in this dime I should think it IS a valid concern for which community leaders should respond to the community. It would be nice to say that all we do is work our tails off and plant flowers and trees, but the other things done in our association's name have nothing to do with us. Unfortunately, as I said before it's the "nature of the beast" and one has to take the heat. From: <[email protected]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:26:28 -0400 (EDT) To: UnivCity listserv <[email protected]> Subject: [UC] Roundup - you read it here first! Below is a link to today's Huffpost article on the important, recently-published review of the scientific literature on Roundup, its toxicity and its regulation. I provided a link to this study and to another on the issue of Roundup and RoundupReady crops in a previous post to this list (June 16th). This Huffpost article covers all the major issues discussed in the original study (for those of you who didn't have time to plow through that pretty dense report!) and also includes responses from scientists, Monsanto (Roundup's manufacturer), and governmental agencies charged with assessing the safety of Roundup and other pesticides. In fact, it supplies all those "details" about Roundup that Tony had promised to provide to anyone who stopped by the FOCP table in Clark Park. In fairness to Tony and to Frank Chance, who vouched for Roundup's harmlessness, it appears that even the German government was unaware of the study and its unsettling conclusions! From the Huffpost article: "German regulators declined to respond in detail for this story because they say they only learned of the Earth Open Source report last week." In a June 9th post, Wilma supplied a link to an earlier Huffpost article on the Earth Open Source study, so, I think you can argue that our listserv readers are better informed that the German government! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/24/roundup-scientists-birth-defects_n _883578.html
