Letter: Local farms’ use of deadly chemicals must stop

Posted 9/19/18

To the editor:

A farmer's right to farm ends if his irresponsible use of chemicals ends

up in a town's groundwater or in the farm products he produces. Roundup (Glyphosate) has now been …

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Letter: Local farms’ use of deadly chemicals must stop

Posted

To the editor:

A farmer's right to farm ends if his irresponsible use of chemicals ends

up in a town's groundwater or in the farm products he produces. Roundup (Glyphosate) has now been declared a carcinogen, and all over the globe citizens and governments are suing Monsanto and now Bayer for contamination of human and animal food and water.

Sakonnet region beware! Those uniformly brown fields you see now are top killing of crops to facilitate harvest of both grains and potatoes. The problem is the glyphosate is directly taken up by the potatoes and grains prior to harvest! Please read the warnings, educate yourselves!

https://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/pre-harvest-roundup-crops-not-just-wheat/.

The Sakonnet region is the farm coast and many of our farmers are responsible, organic farmers. Others are not and need regulating to protect the town's public resources such as groundwater.

It is time for the town to begin to protect all the citizens of the

region by establishing a Farm Bureau. Such a body of farmers and concerned citizens could begin to test our groundwater for contamination and regulate the use of herbicides and pesticides to protect us all.

Question your present candidates for council on this issue and vote for those who believe it is time to protect the public health, safety and welfare from the irresponsible, and now deadly, application of farm chemicals.

Mimi Karlsson

Retired US EPA-AED

Little Compton and Hopkinton

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