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Perhaps not, but true, if you mishandle chemicals whose toxicity is
unknown. Since the toxicity of ALL garden chemicals is unknown, you can
draw your own conclusions.

My conclusion for some time has been that they could all be dangerous
and should be handled with extreme caution. My conclusion is also that
I do not fire the first volley of gratuitous insults at another poster.
But that's usenet. I'm used to it.

Shock has value. There is NO excuse for using these chemicals at home.
Not ever.

So who is going to dig all my dandelions, kill all my Virginia Creeper,
kill all my unknown kudzu-mimicing vine, all the underground root systems,
all my oxalis, all my creeping charlie, all my crabgrass, all my lamb's
ears (pull that by hand because of my violets), all my stuff that looked
like marijuana that nobody ever id'ed, my volunteer walnut tree that
refuses to give up when I whack it, and who knows what else is lurking out
there? This is my reward for my environmentally friendly, bird-loving,
pet-protectionist, self-protectionist do-nothing approach for years. It's
getting a couple apps of some broadleaf pesticide a year and paint
brushing from now on. I'd do it myself, but the tank when full weighs 40
pounds and you wear it like a backpack. It's bad enough I have to hand
weed my wildflowers and some other spots.

I think I'll go dump all my old gasoline and chemicals in the rain drain
across the street because I don't want to waste fossil fuel, my time and
my energy driving it to the hazardous waste center where disposal is by
appointment only. I'm just kidding. I did dump gasoline in it years ago
before I knew better.

My yard is looking better every day since I got rid of most of those
weeds.

Unless we buy 100% certified organic food, we are eating products that
have been treated with chemicals by the hundreds of tons. I never will
spray my fruit trees though. One lady who wanted an apple from my tree
wouldn't let her kid pick any until I assured her they hadn't been
sprayed. Just about everything around us has one kind of chemical or
another in it.

Interesting last paragraph. Based on that logic, we're wide open to do
almost anything we want, simply because somebody else is doing it. This
reminds me of my mother's nagging: "Just because your friends do stupid
things, it doesn't mean YOU have to do them, too".