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Pesticides and
Finger -pointing:
I don't know if every farmer will agree
with me, but lately it seems that everyone
is pointing fingers at us. The animal rights
groups, environmentalists, and government
all seem to think they have the right to
single out farmers as the culprits for water
pollution problems, cruelty to animals, and
food surpluses.
Why is it that a group that comprises
three per cent of the population has to take
this? The answer is right in the question,
isn't it? A very small minority of the pop-
ulation is farming. It is too bad that people
in urban areas don't realize that without
agriculture many of their jobs would be
eliminated.
Recently, my husband took the pest-
icide safety course currently offered on a
volunteer basis. I myself think that start-
ing these courses is one of the smartest
moves the government has made. The
only thing I object to is the exam that must
be passed at the end of the course. Could
someone explain to me why farmers, most
of whom are aware of the dangers of
chemicals, must pass this exam, while the
city dweller who has dandelions can buy
a chemical weed killer, dump the excess
either on his lawn or down his drain, and
does not have to take a safety course?
In The Rural Voice article about this
course (February 1990), John Hazlitt
asked, "But where are the wives?" Yes,
we do want to know what our husbands are
working with and what to do if faced with
a pesticide poisoning. But maybe Mr.
Hazlitt does not realize that many wives
nowadays have full-time jobs to supple-
ment farm income or have small children
and a full-day course requires pre -plan-
ning. I will take this course, but I felt that
since my husband does most of the work
with the chemicals, he should take it first.
Each generation has always been stuck
with a name — i.e. the "me" generation —
and I have begun to wonder if this new
decade will produce the "finger -pointing
generation" ("They did it, it's their fault").
Wouldn't it be nice instead if everyone
would say, "I contributed to the problems
and now I am going to help solve them."
What a wonderful world it would be.0
Maureen Agar
R. R. 2, Seaforth