It has been over seven years since it was recommended that the City of London pass a pesticide by-law. Other municipalities, such as Hudson (Quebec), Toronto and Halifax fought for the health of their citizens. Even with such precedents our city has been throwing road block after road block against banning pesticides. The Environment and Transportation Committee (ETC) has been going round and round on this issue; meanwhile, everybody is unnecessarily being exposed to this toxin.
First the city hid behind its lawyers, who stated that the municipality lacked the legal authority. Now they are on "the pesticides have been tested and approved and safe" bandwagon and are looking for more loop holes via the wording of the proposed by-law.
Relevant government bodies including the city keep protecting the pesticide industry at the expense of their constituents. The precautionary principle is continually ignored regardless of mounting data on the health effects of pesticides.
The rest of this article is at Share The Wealth
Stumble It!
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The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfield deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.
- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, The Iraqi Informat
Just another industry sticking it to the spineless.<br />
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Here is a link to "EPA & Chemical Industry To Study Effects Of Known Toxic Chemicals On Children"<br />
<a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/epa-alert.htm">www.organicconsumers.org/epa-alert.htm</a><p>---<br>"Yeah, well, [Mr. President] we used all five fingers because that's the way our mittens are made." Antonia Zerbisias