Thanks Bob – I agree. Just because a substance reduces harmful insects doesn’t necessarily
making it an “-icide”. Particularly, if it were accomplished it indirectly –starvation
by lack of edible foods. Most likely,
it will just make them leave the plant – and that’s not a bad thing either. But even if it were accomplished directly
(the bacteria/fungi (whatever) devouring the insects protective coatings or
internals) – does this make it an “-icide”, as you put it? We’re running with terminology again – so lets change the
thought of ‘-icides’, as we think of them today. Lets show there is a better way – and that can’t be done by
hiding behind it – but by expressing where it works, and being honest by where
it doesn’t work (to me, the most important). If its something that is applied, that is non-toxic – remind
me, where is the concern? I agree
with Bob, its sounding like were afraid to express ACT for fear of … what
again? Mike -----Original
Message----- Is the EPA
such a threat that we can't openly enjoy the merits of ACT? Here we have
the solution for many of the problems that the EPA is searching for and we
choose to hide it from them? Maybe we need to be proactive. Show
them it has the answers they need. Get THEM to PROMOTE ACT. That is
their mission. I can buy poisons to reduce aphids.
Or apply a non toxic ACT that has the natural bio preditors of soft bodied
insects and aphids are less a problem. I can buy and apply slug bait, a poison,
and slugs leave slime all over the garden. It must be terrible way to die.
When I apply ACT the slugs are not a problem.. No evidence of
poison. My neighbors pets are not exposed to poisons, Nor his kids.
Nor my vegies. I can buy poisons to kill caterpillars and
spray gallons of it on my trees, kill everything, birds, bees, each other, the
water, fish and fish food. Or I can apply non toxic ACT and the
pillars quit eating the leaves. No poison. Just the natural bio that
eventually slows them down. They just quit eating. The EPA
should be delighted. I can spray poisons on my lawn to kill the
bugs there. Kill the fish, poison the water, and the kids. Or I can
apply ACT and the grass is not affected by those bugs. This
is what the EPA, the county park dept. asked for. The Strawberry experience, the palm
tree cure, the live oaks, the banana platation experiment, all these marvels of
natures way to balance a problem with normal bio instead of chemical poisons IS
WHAT THE EPA IS LOOKING FOR. All the results achieved by ACT support
what the EPA aims for. So we hide ACT behind a bush so
they won't notice? Is our government agency that hard to work WITH?
Unfortunately. But do we
let that condition prevail? Is this no longer the governent of the
people, for the people, by the people ? BY THE PEOPLE ! Did all those millions
who gave their lives to defend freedom do so, so that we, in utter
safety, would allow freedom to perish because we are proccupied,
timid? Not this kid, Bob
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