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Keep Your Lawn TruGreen Free
From Deborah Loring
Recently, a spokesperson from the TruGreen (ChemLawn) company was quoted in Seven Days as saying that the chemicals used by his company on people's lawns are "safe". Here are the facts about those "Safe Chemicals".
MCPA is just one of the chemicals in the Tri-Power herbicide used by TruGreen. The estimated lethal dose of MCPA for a 160 pound person is less than one ounce. This is equivalent to less than 5 tablespoons of the Tri-Power herbicide. For a forty pound child, this is approximately 3 tablespoons of the Tri-Power herbicide.
And how do we estimate this dose? We feed the chemical to rabbits, birds, dogs, mice, and many other species of animals. We chronicle the toxic affects it has on these poor creatures. How many of them suffered seizures? How many of their offspring had birth defects? How much of the chemical did it take to mutate their bone marrow cells? And how much of the chemical did it take to finally kill them? Then we estimate the lethal dose for humans.
Knowing all of this, we are assured these products are ?safe?, and we spray them on our grass, because they kill weeds.
These chemicals pose a very real danger to human health, and to the health of our pets and native wildlife. It has taken 40 years to restore just one creature, the bald eagle, in Vermont; its population having been decimated by something once thought to be ?safe? - DDT. There are a myriad of truly safe ways to have a beautiful lawn. Spraying poison on it just isn?t one of them.
For more information, visit the Toxic Action Center Website below.
More Info: http://www.refusetousechemlawn.org/
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