The Rural Voice, 1979-01, Page 17v
But the EPA not only demaded a test for each species of bug
infested plant, but also that the same testing be done in the
different regions where they were to be used. If, for instance it
didn't harm a blackbird in Oregon, it didn't prove that a catfish
in Georgia might not be effected by run-off. And so another
dream of Rachel Carson was shattered.
The EPA has recognized that agricultural cehmicals are
necessary if we are to feed the world. That's why highly toxic
chemicals such as parathion and others, that can kill any life, are
licenced for use. The irony is that the highly selective biologicals
that control the lifecycle of the insect are not.
The main problem at the EPA seems to be that it is run by
lawyers instead of by scientists. They have developed a huge
bureaucracy, and are trapped in their own web of regulations,
and in the web of dozens of environmental groups, who have
their own offices and their own jobs to protect in Washington.
After six years of EPA only six bio -chemical controls are
licenced in the U.S.A. and without the huge market of our
neighbors, no company is going to develope many more, as long
as they face the huge cost of development and testing.
In the meantime hundreds of proven bio -chemicals are resting
uselessly in the laboratories. Several companies who were
interested in bio -chemical research have ceased their research
altogether, or gone broke. The earlier mentioned Nutrilite
company, with their organic vitamins, sold everything in
frustration.
Scientists decided to find the reason, and they did. They
isolated the chemicals from these plants (yes, plants do make
chemicals) and used them just as the plants do. The results were
the same. But when the chemical companies, run by humans
instead of plants, began producing these same chemicals, the
EPA stepped in, demanding such expensive testing that all the
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These are facts:
• Tops in Reliability
• 24 Hour Record Setter 1,000 Mile Endurance
• Coast to Coast Endurance Champion • Tops in Owners Survey
The list goes on and on and they are all facts! The Scorpion Whip has proven Itself
to be the most reliable snowmobile year in and year out, mile after mile. On Dec.
4, 1977, Fritz Sprandel left Westport, Washington on a 1978 440 Whip heading
East. On Feb. 4, 1978, he reached Eastport, Maine, setting a U.S. Coast to Coast
Endurance record. His stock Whip covered more than 5,000 miles of trails,
mountains and ditches. In 1977 a group of snowmobilers, members of a club in
Gun Lake, Michigan, drove two stock 440 Whips around a slush filled lake for 24
hours and set of record of over 1,100 miles each! In 1975 and 1976, Snowgoer
Magazine ran a test for six companies running a single machine each for 1,000
miles and checked the results. You guessed it! Scorpion's family machine, the
Whip. . .was outstanding. Owner's surveys show without question just how
satisfied customers are, with their Whips. . . Study the facts and you'll choose a
Whip, cuz. when you get right down to It. . .Nothin' really comes close.
RAY POTTER & SONS LTD.
Sales & Service
275 Huron St. Clinton 482-9997
I firmly believe that any people gets the government they
deserve, be it a Union, an Agency or a Pierre Trudeau. As long
as the public lets itself be swayed by enthusiastic well-meaning
amateur biologists, or sits home and does nothing to change
things, the public will get exactly what it deserves. There is no
way the EPA could work the way it does unless the American
public let it. It should be a lesson to us in Canada, not to succumb
to the superficial, but to listen to those who are equiped to show
the advantages as well as the disadvantages of a product.
In a way it is unfortunate that we share the same language
with the United States. While receiving many benefits from it,
we also get snowed with all the emotional opinions held by our
good neighbors to the South. Opinons sometimes fostered by
monetary interests.
Proximity
Because of the proximity of the U.S. we read their magazines;
we listen to their radios; we view their television programs; we
see their commercial advertisements.
As Canadians we must always be vigilant and sceptical about
ideas coming from abroad and look for possible motives behind
them, or be sure these ideas apply to us as they do to the people
in the foreign country.
All the foregoing doesn't mean that 1 advocate a return to the
casual times of pre-war, when a child was send to the store for a
can of aresenic or Paris Green, in order to combat insects in the
vegetable garden. Far from it.
Everyone should carefully read the instructions supplied with
the chemical to be u sed, and follow these instructions to the
letter. If that is done, it is safe. There simply is no substitute for
common sense.
In a following issue we will examine some common
misunderstanding rampant in the mind of the public.
CAROLYN PORTER
Appointmenl
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Mutch Home Furnishings Is
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HOME FURNISHINGS
CLINTON -- 482-9505
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