Dear Editor,
Re: “Herbicide risk low: Prof,” Richmond News, July 28, 2017.
Who’s asking this professor’s opinion on “risk.”
The concerned Burkeville resident should be concerned, as her garden is now no longer organic.
Chemicals don’t need a CDC-level confirmation of carcinogenic nature to still be harmful. What if the harm is negligible? Why should this person, or anyone seeking a chemical-free diet, not have such choice?
Perhaps, in 30 years, technology we don’t have now will show this herbicide is carcinogenic and what if our unnamed Burkevillian gardener has just died of the cancer it causes?
She should have the right and ability to protect herself as she sees fit.
As to the claimed safeness of this herbicide, do the applicators wear protective clothing and masks? Why?
Curiously yours,
George Pope
Richmond
