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RE: Experimenting with herbicide
Thanks for sharing. This whole topic is so complex. Here in Europe pesticides/herbicides are at the moment a big topic as the EU is about to make a decision concerning those remidies, specially which contain Neonicotinoide. Last year a German/English/ Netherland study showed that 76% of the insect population in Germany disapeared due to the haevy use of pesticides/ herbicides in agrobusiness. Bee population is massively under pressure.
I don't know your place, but I wonder why you want to get rid of the grass in the first place? If only because of aesthetic reason, maybe you let it grow, keep it short and enjoy the tiny flying brothers and sisters in it.
76% is quite massive and scary and something drastic needs to be done. I do not know if such research has been carried out around here. We might end up causing significant ecological imbalance by their continued use. I think the only reason I want the weeds out is aesthetic, not really because of myself but those around me that would refuse to understand their ecological use. This might be the first and the last time I will be using the herbicide though, like I said, it is just an experiment.
You are definitely an open minded person, trying to find out by your own. There is so much reseach done about this topic. Most of it by big chemical companies which of course will tell you that everthing is fine with their products. And they want to sell them! A lot of products which are already forbidden in US or Europe get sold very well in developing countries where proper information is available only for few educated people.
you are quite right. Several environmentally dangerous products find their ways to Africa and other developing countries. A medium as this is one of the ways sensitization can take place. perhaps I will research some of the products and make post on it.