Your Say

Increasingly research is showing us that previously documented (albeit the research to produce the documentation was “limited”) safe pesticides are anything but safe.

Roundup has been demonstrated for some time to have “problems”. The latest study adds to that body of information — see, http://www.panna.org/.

Tasmania uses large amounts of Roundup; it is the most commonly used pesticide by agriculture, the forestry industry, local councils and the average gardener.

Where are the public health measures to ensure that people going about there everyday business can feel protected from the effects of these biocides? Where are the “safe policies” to protect their food and water supplies? What has happened to prevent the precautionary principle being used to protect man, his descendants and his environment?

Who is documenting the impacts these pesticides are having on us and our environment?

The defining element of the precautionary principle is the lack of certainty between a cause and its effect. Common sense needs to prevail. The indiscriminate use of toxic chemicals (pesticides) when scientific information is incomplete, but already showing harm, must cease.

Alison Bleaney
St Helens 7216