Basil Chupin wrote:

The bit about the leeching of chemicals from the treated pine has been
done to death in this and other forums :-). As far as I am concerned the
amount of leeching would be so small that it wouldn't matter.

I suspect that you get more crap into you from the environment around
you - like being in your house where you are inhaling all sorts of
carcinogenic fumes, get contaminated by the teflon coated kitcheware and
the plastic cling wrap; and if you are a male (which you are) and you
are in the habit of wearing Japanese Riding Boots (thongs that is) then
you are absorbing estrogen from the rubber which rubbing between your
toes and will end up growing boobs.

Cheers.


Loved the bit about the oestrogen! Thanks for the smile!

I don't know the answer to this question, but I have wondered why we
haven't heard any reports of people passing away abruptly (or even
procrastinatorily) from treated timber garden improvements. Wouldn't you
think that if the copper salts are all that significantly toxic to
people, there'd be an actual death rate from their use? Does anyone know
of any figures? I mean, if you look in the Australian Year Book, there's
actually a death rate from being hit on the scone by a Bunya Pine Cone
(or, at least, there was last time I looked which was, admittedly, a
good while ago).

I'm afraid I'm with you, Basil! The amount of growth hormone and
antibiotic and other chemicals we actually *eat* each day in our
processed foods ought to have killed us all by now. Like it or not, we
seem to be evolving to cope with all the toxins we generate in and for
our foodstuffs.

My favourite bugbear is pesticides! My DH uses enough Baygon to sink the
Missouri, let alone a tiny cockroach. I *have* to wonder what it's doing
to my family! (NB. This is where your Riding Boots come in - they're far
more effective on cockroaches than *any* insecticide!) ;-D

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Trish {|:-}
Newcastle, Australia