permaculture

[Victor Guest <vic@daena.eepo.com.au>]

>From: HELEN COLEMAN <helenc@southwest.com.au>
>To: Permaculture WA <perma@eepo.com.au>
>Subject: Roundup
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>I am continually being told that the herbicide Roundup, is 'perfectly safe',
>with one old codger telling me 'you could drink it!"  and that I should be
>using it on my garden to control the rampant kikuyu, instead of persisting
>with sheetmulching.  I am longing to argue with these relics, but I don't
>have the statistics that I need to convince them.  Can anyone direct me to
>some conclusive proof of the harmful effects of Roundup?
>
>Thanks for any help you can give,
>Helen Coleman
>

Regards,
          Vic
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