Sherry Chandler » Who killed Fido?
Who killed Fido?
asks Deborah Bloom in the NYTimes:
… Pesticide contamination, not just in China but globally, occurs because we operate, deliberately, in a world of poisons.
We kill lots of animals — the ones we find annoying, destructive or unsafe. We regularly employ toxic substances against rats, insects, prairie dogs, coyotes and invasive fish, and yet we are shocked when those same lethal substances affect us.
We’ve been learning and forgetting this lesson almost since we began using industrial pesticides:
I fear that, in the end, we’re going to find our poisoning of the bees much more important than our poisoning of Fido.
Addendum: It should be noted that on March 30, the Food & Drug Administration announced that the toxin in the pet food was not rat poison but melamine, a substance used to make plastic and also as a fertilizer in China.
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