REALITY CHECK:

HEALTH:
During visits, do you feel as though you're keeping your doctor from an urgent round of gulf?

Chemical Lawn Care

What If We Stopped Poisoning Ourselves?

by Roland Kriewaldt

I once worked part time for a chemical lawn care company in Toronto. It was my job to convince former customers to reconsider after they had cancelled the company's lawn care services.

The most tragic and shocking reason why former customers had cancelled the service turned out to be that their dog or cat had died or become ill from coming into contact with the poisonous chemicals that were sprayed on the lawn. And here I was, hired to talk these poor folks into signing up again. "Hey, you've got a new dog, right? Get over it!"

Needless to say, I didn't last long at that job. It did inspire a reality check about Ecology though: How high does the food chain climb, beginning with the worms marinating in your toxic lawn chemicals?

When you think about it, golf courses are a haven for dew worms. This is why pro worm pickers often go to golf courses to stock the bait shops for fishermen.

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