l'HEUREUX: Pesticides Legality
Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 5:35 pml'HEUREUX: Pesticides Legality
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Letter to the Editor - Western Producer - Open Forum - April 18, 2013
In another few weeks, many agricultural producers will be taking to the fields using toxic chemicals to grow grains for human consumption. I question the legality of this practice. Let me explain.
If your cows come onto my property or my pigs go onto your property, we have a problem.
We have to repair or put up better fences to keep damages from occurring and to keep the peace between neighbours. However, if your toxic farm chemicals drift over onto my property via air, groundwater or surface, it’s all legal and OK?
Since no agri-producer can guarantee that his or her chemicals will stay on their property, and they do not, can this practice be legal?
Does anyone have the right to expose others around them with noxious products?
When it comes to the foods produced, we can make choices to eat non-contaminated foods, but it seems that our choices don’t apply to air and water.
Farmers have been brainwashed for years by the large agricultural multinationals to produce more to feed the growing population of the world.
Well, it is not our responsibility to feed the world at our detriment. We should trade our surpluses and help in other ways. We are producing more quantity when the focus should be on nutritional quality.
A solution is to insist on third party testing of all chemicals. Secondly, we must insist on full disclosure of all ingredients of these products, never mind the need for patent infringement protection.
The consumers should have more rights than large corporations or are we not simply poisoning ourselves slowly all the way to the bank?
Paul-Emile L’Heureux,
White Fox, Sask.
< http://www.producer.com/2013/04/letters ... l-18-2013/ >
Letter to the Editor - Western Producer - Open Forum - April 18, 2013
In another few weeks, many agricultural producers will be taking to the fields using toxic chemicals to grow grains for human consumption. I question the legality of this practice. Let me explain.
If your cows come onto my property or my pigs go onto your property, we have a problem.
We have to repair or put up better fences to keep damages from occurring and to keep the peace between neighbours. However, if your toxic farm chemicals drift over onto my property via air, groundwater or surface, it’s all legal and OK?
Since no agri-producer can guarantee that his or her chemicals will stay on their property, and they do not, can this practice be legal?
Does anyone have the right to expose others around them with noxious products?
When it comes to the foods produced, we can make choices to eat non-contaminated foods, but it seems that our choices don’t apply to air and water.
Farmers have been brainwashed for years by the large agricultural multinationals to produce more to feed the growing population of the world.
Well, it is not our responsibility to feed the world at our detriment. We should trade our surpluses and help in other ways. We are producing more quantity when the focus should be on nutritional quality.
A solution is to insist on third party testing of all chemicals. Secondly, we must insist on full disclosure of all ingredients of these products, never mind the need for patent infringement protection.
The consumers should have more rights than large corporations or are we not simply poisoning ourselves slowly all the way to the bank?
Paul-Emile L’Heureux,
White Fox, Sask.