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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Re: undercutting
  • Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:39:15 -0500

>Paul:Take the family l
> iving by a large field where they have to close all the windows to keep
out
>pesticide drift. They want it regulated to protect them.
>
>Oldtimin: As a Libertarian, I feel a persons right to spray pesticides on
>their field extends only so far as I am safe to leave my windows open,
after
>that you are stepping on my rights.


Technically, the law agrees with you. By law, pesticides are only to be
sprayed on the target crop, nowhere else. Enforcement hasn't caught up for
some reason.

Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center





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