Dear Ina, I agree with you. Comercial growers get exemptions to use some really nasty stuff. If you go online I think there is a site that rates just how toxic a chemical is. Lets face it if you drink 5 gallons of water I don't think you would survive. We live in a world saturated with too many man made chemicals, antibiotics and weed/bug killers. It all started after WW1 when doctors wanted to save lives, then in the 1930s with farmers wanting to grow more food. I doubt if there are many places that are chemical free anywhere on earth. Have you ever seen the profit reports for drug/chemical companies. If people would moderate the use of many of these chemicals it would help. But we do not live in a perfect world. In a message dated 4/2/2013 9:46:58 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, klazina@orcon.net.nz writes: Alberto, do you have any idea of all the poisons which are sprayed on the commercially grownveges here? I don't know what it is like elsewhere, nor could I tell you,but have read enough articles to decide me I would rather eat my own home grown than even the supposedly organic ones, which have a mix of poisons sprayed on them which individually are safe, but altogether make another poisonous brew. Anyonewhocan tell me what is sprayed on commercially grown fruit and veges? Or what will kill Kikuyu grass? As neither vinegar nor boiling water affects it unduly. Ina Ina Crossley Auckland New Zealand Zone 10 On 3/04/2013 11:00 a.m., Alberto Castillo wrote: > This for whom said Roundup was used on the vegetable plot. _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/