Cerumen wrote:

"Rusty Hinge" wrote in message
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Yet the story has spread. It has appeared in at least two _Government_
press releases and as even been copied by the BBC.

But who believes Government press releases, especially about weeds of
mass destruction?

Or even about the mass destruction of weeds? Anyway somebody leaves a
horse run free and it breaks into my land and eats the ragwort or indeed
nibbles on the Yew, foxgloves, belladonna or any other toxic plants and
trees they get what they deserve?

The issue is more that when ragwort produces seed that seed travels
over a huge area and there are tens of thousands of viable ragwort
seeds produced by a single plant. If you're ragwort was guaranteed not
to spread beyond your garden owners of grazing animals wouldn't be so
worried about it.

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Chris Green )