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ro the editor:
It is with great dismay and concern that I write this letter. Midsummer, and the sweet smells of Virginia have been lost fo uncontrolled herbicide use and orchard spray residues. Apparently, people seem to think poisoning weeds and looking at dead, brown, wilted stalks is a “cleaner” look than a bit overgrown fence rows.
There is various cutting machinery on the market, but of course, it’s not “cost effective.” Regardless of all arguments and money matters, the fact is that the toxic residues of poisons are extremely detrimental to clean water sources, plant life and the great food chain, in which we all tak part, both in this local area and down river.
Even the air stinks, and to me, it is a slap in the face to be living in the “clean country.” At the cost of my health, I am forced to be near sprayed areas.
There are lots of articles out there, research, tests, actual examples. (Look at California, San Joaquin. Do California people drink their own water any more? Bottled water is a million dollar business.) That proves these toxins do not disappear. Just because man does not fall over dead after exposure, no one bats an eye, who cares if an exotic flower was just permanently extinguished? Only the true weeds, mostly introduced aliens to this area, the victims to be killed, survive and return profusely the following year. The cost of continual spraying is serious, why doesn’t anyone care?
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