spraying poison on weeds - Page 2

Thanks Alex for restoring the post. I can assure the original poster I meant no personal rudeness or abuse. On re-reading, yes it was a bit fierce. Certainly it was a bit Victor Meldrew on a bad day and I apologise for any offence it may have caused. I just get so frustrated when Brits want to run Spain and tell the Spanish what they should be doing - it really annoys me because the very same people would likely be the first to complain if the situation was reversed and eg Spanish immigrants were telling the UK what they should and should not do. I'm willing to be judged and at the mercy of the members on this. 

Apology yes, but change sentiment, no xx

1. I am not  brittish i am dutch and european

2. I was looking for support. Wring place “dogs are not important aparently”

3. I will not shut up because i am told to do so

4. In Netherlands “round up” is poison and forbidden

5. I don’t blame you. I know I am in Spain but i have a lot if spanish german norwegian and brittish friends who have dogs and children playing in that area and i just wanted to warn them and other dog friendly people

6. Perhaps you have contacts in the community who want to listen to my complaint

Thanks for giving me this oportunity to hear what and why i had to say this

Well an innocent post on a query about potentially dangerous chemicals being used and all the dog haters come out in force and miss the whole point.

So perhaps those that complained about asbestos years ago should have kept quiet?

Children could get this on their hands and lick it and it be fatal. I think there is a valid reason to react that way and has nothing to do with whether they are English living in Spain. It is about keeping a safe environment for a to live in.

There are enough chemicals killing this world. 

Hello, I believe you are correct to worry about RoundUp but did you know:

Along with wheat and oats, glyphosate is used to desiccate a wide range of other crops including lentils, peas, non-GMO soybeans, corn, flax, rye, triticale,buckwheat, millet, canola, sugar beets, and potatoes. Sunflowers may also be treated pre-harvest with glyphosate.

So, the parents are probably feeding their children this poison with their breakfast cereal and bread, along with many other foods, on a daily basis. We all demand cheap food and most of us eat foods which have been flown thousands of miles and/or out of season and kept fresh by the use of even more chemicals.

The alternative is to pay a lot more for food which is grown naturally and to accept that bad weather may ruin crops and to also pay farmers for crops lost this way. I doubt many people would be happy to pay the farmers for failed harvests. How many of us, when food shopping, on finding, for example, no bread because the crop failed, would pay for it anyway: We wouldn´t.

As for weeds, we either have to accept them or pay for them to be removed manually, neither of which will be popular.

RoundUp is terrible, but we have all grown too used to having what we want, when we want it, at the price we want it. Nature cannot guarantee this.

I agree,  I think the reply was unfriendly and unhelpful. If people don't have anything constructive to say maybe they should refrain from replying.

We may well have to accept that failed crops mean lack of certain foods, a consequence of global warming, we have no one but ourselves to blame.

We cannot go on the way we are, plastic pollution has now reached Antarctica, I have lost count the amount of times I stand behind someone In  a Supermarket queue who asks for a plastic bag, every time we eat fish we are ingesting plastic bon appetit.

Quick question RayD as you seem to have your finger on the pulse of things in Spain, when have Spain committed to being net zero?