BOYCOTT REQUEST: Scotts Lawn Service = Monsanto

Can you prove any of this ? Or are you just slandering a great company .Give us the real reason you don’t like Scott’s

fuck me

I am with you, thanks for spreading the word, how we spend our money is the only real power we have left (its probably the only power average Americans ever had).

Fuck those satanic bitches.
Fucking, fuck them.

Good Lord SSS, all humanity is hypocritical to some degree or another and that is not the point. The point is removing the hypocrisy as much as you can and to eliminate supporting bad practices/bad actors as much as you can.

Israel nuked Yemen.

Just some unbalanced thoughts, apologies for hijacking the thread Stuck.

I spray Roundup by the 50 gallon drum. Is that bad?

And so they grow up to be men, instead of enviro-ninnys, patiently waiting for the day they, like llpoh before them, can spray 50 gallons of roundup at a time. And they will remember back, and tell their sons, we played football on starfckers grass, and it was great.

I spent the day repairing fence along a new cut from over the winter, pulling staples from cedar posts, re-stringing high tensile wire, that sort of thing. I can barely type right now because my fingers are so torn up. As I worked I kicked apart the cow patties from last fall, each one exploding into a shower of fine carbon and desiccated grasses. In the spot where the patties were, worms spun and twisted in the sunlight. Where the limbs and branches had been stacked there were large arcs of silvered wood chips spread out in a fan across the cleared land and everywhere the black loam was peppered with shoots of dark green vetch, clover and sorrel.

Do you know why people have lawns? They say that it is a mimicry of the stately commons from late feudal era, large open grounds where you had a good view of whoever happened to be sieging your castle and a clear line of fire for your archers and catapult operators. Lawns give you a safety zone and a clear demarcation of where people live and tend so no one gets the impression that it’s public land, but rather private. Personally I think it goes further back than that, I think it goes all the way back to when primates first came down out of the trees and ventured out on the savannahs. Having a clear line of sight so you had plenty of time to scurry back to the safety of the branches was probably crucial for an animal that had no natural defenses against fang and claw. I big, wide swath of open grass was the buffer and a clear advantage and so we mimic what made us feel safe so long ago that we’ve forgotten and we try to pretend that we’re just one castle shy of being a lord in our development.

All flesh is grass. The most important thing we raise on our farm is our family. I want them to be healthy, to grow strong, to be fertile and hale, so I feed them the food we produce using the seeds we collect and the animals we raise and all of it comes from the soil where we live. The rich dark earth is filled with countless living organisms. To intentionally poison the very foundation upon which all of our nourishment depends is symbolic, in a way, of our larger culture and it’s worship of all that is shallow, transitory, garish and without meaning- it is part of the worship of a death cult. A perfectly manicured lawn of a single grass type, maintained by the chemical application of toxins is the botanical equivalent of Mr/Ms Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair. It appears to be something that it is not. It mimics what it desires to be but can never be. It is a middle finger held to the face of God, immutable proof of mankind’s inability to accept its place in the natural order and to do whatever horrific and hateful act it can conceive of in order to clamber up the crenelated walls of Babel and proclaim itself Divine. It is, as the old saying goes, lipstick on a pig and it only fools those who wish to be fooled.

People who really love their lawns would be a thousand times happier if returned to the earth and saw to the cultivation of life for the sake of life itself.

Just sayin’.

HSF, I’ve been involved in commercial agriculture for 27 years, and it is a family tradition on my mothers side. Dads side also owned farms, but they had sharecroppers. In that 27 years, here are the herbacides and pesticides I have owned and applied. Round up. Garlon. Amdro fire ant granules. Bug geta snail pellets. That’s it. Round up I buy commercially. Garlon is supplied to us by the power company to keep easements brush fre

My theory is that a healthy, robust tree is almost impervious to attack by insects or pathogens. When we have a tree decline, we let it die or throw it away, natural selection. Only the strong survive. But we keep them strong. A lot to that, for another day. On most days my lawn has flocks of foraging white ibis, eating grubs from under the surface. There are large iguanas basking and foraging. Not a pesticide in 27 years

Thanks for bringing us this Stuck, forewarned is forearmed. I stick to non/less-deadly to human concoctions for weeds and pests. I will admit I used to use Round UP in the attempt to keep my asphalt and concrete and brick (so much of them all, the builder was a huge believer in paved over property) from being destroyed by weeds and ants. As it only works temporarily (they come back), AND I worried for my dog, and eventually my new daughter, I researched and switched to more natural concoctions. They are usually just as effective as petroleum based/commercial killers, they just take more patience, time and applications.

Every Spring I battle ants. EVERY spring. My husband doesn’t mind the ant destruction (our patio is sinking because the freaking ants have a massive colony, or many colonies, constantly pushing the dirt out), but I do because, to me, it is like watching a stream of people take dollars out of hand over a span of years. Eventually those little bastards are going to totally destroy the patio and we’ll have to fix it, well maybe, hub isn’t big on spending for house upkeep and maintenance, it could be crap for decades.

Jerry Baker offers hundreds of tips, recipes and tricks for using household products to make pesticides and herbicides to use for every occasion. I make a garden bug killer using tobacco, mouthwash and soap. He taught me you can use powdered laundry detergent to get rid of mushrooms and slugs (works great, just sprinkle it on and around the problem plants, doesn’t seem to hurt my hostas, nor my dog). I applied a couple times years ago, and neither one has come back while my earthworm population exploded. Healthy soil equals healthy good bugs, equals healthy plants and animals too.

Monsanto, under the dual guises of increasing food production and better living through chemistry, is killing us all.

While our (bought and paid for) scientists and government work double time to cover up any real independent science that proves the dangers (and real costs, we are in the very bad habit of not covering the real lifetime costs of our products), decimating the air, water, soil and natural plants that have survived millennium, and spending billions to convince Urban dwellers, and those that are still being held in awe at what technology has/can do, that this is the only, best way, in the meantime we are losing our ability to survive ANY contingencies.

Do you know that one bug, one virus, one blight, could nearly 100% decimate the earth’s commercial banana population? Thank technology, science and marketing that convinced ‘Murkins that “pretty” and “long lasting” fresh foods equal “quality.” ps, it doesn’t, it equates to a future loss and current loss of nutrition in exchange for appearance and shelf life and, the most important parts, power and money.

I won’t even get into what the CIA has done over the decades to further the likes of Monsanto and Big Sugar/Bananas/Coffee, not to mention marijuana, heroin and cocaine. Needless to say, without our “national defense” apparatus, the likes of Dole and Monsanto would not be as they are.

We live in a corrupted, polluted, chemical and technological soup, run by the corrupted and polluted. While we are being killed by it, the VAST majority believe and promote it while screaming that those that question the story as the crazy “liberal” ones.

Statist bitches all. Thankfully, I now believe they will all, as will I, be shown the errors of our ways and made to pay for what we/they created, or supported. Sadly, my grandchild will be the one that has to pay in this world for their folly, refusal to learn the truth, greed and hubris.

She, and her peers, will be the ones being burnt alive to buy a couple more years by the very real damage Monsanto and her peers in Big Pharma, have wrought. She will be the amongst the ones made to pay for all her great, and current, grandparents pride, hubris, and ignorance. Look around, the pain and suffering we are causing is utterly disgusting. And we blame God and the person for the fact we allowed other men to poison us in the name of, it doesn’t matter, production, profit, overcoming nature, whatever.

If that truth doesn’t make you at least start to question your propagandized belief system, then nothing will. I would feel sorry for you if I had the time, sadly, my time is being spent crying for those this morass is killing. At least they will no longer be in pain and being strip mined by the very same organizations as those of left have to look forward to.

Sickening, but a solid American institution and way of life. Party on, on your abnormally green, sterile, lawns.

TE, see if you can ID the ants that give you so much trouble. If they are fire ants (non-native, and they usually are the ones moving sand around) just get a little package of amdro. You only use a miniscule amount, like peppering your food, and it doesn’t affect anything else. But it will kill those fire ants. Invasive fire ants will destroy the ecosystem around them in several ways.

I don’t like any of the commercial products recomended for those 2 pests, as they kill indiscriminately, and have restrictions for storage and use. Other than that, poison isn’t part of our game. We get inspected by FDA, DERM and EPA every year. They used to search our entire properties, convinced we had a secret chemical storage bunker. They couldn’t accept we were pesticide free

A local company decided to send some employee’s to school. One of the classes was logic.

Bubba was one of the students

The next day, Bubba goes down to the college with the rest of the employees and takes his place in the front row.

‘Logic?’ Bubba says to the teacher .”What’s that ” ?’

The teacher says, ‘I’ll give you an example. Do you own a weed eater?’

‘Yeah.’

‘Then logically speaking, because you own a weed eater, I think that you would have a yard.’

‘That’s true, I do have a yard.’

‘I’m not done,’ the dean says. ‘Because you have a yard, I think logically that you would have a house.’

‘Yes, I do have a house.’

‘And because you have a house, I think that you might logically have a family.’

‘Yes, I have a family.

‘I’m not done yet. Because you have a family, then logically you must have a wife. And because you have a wife, then logic tells me you must be a heterosexual.’

‘I am a heterosexual. That’s amazing, you were able to find out all of that because I
have a weed eater.’

Excited to take the class now, Bubba sits quietly and eagerly listens to the lecture.

When he leaves the classroom he heads to the bar to meet SSS. He tells SSS about his
class on logic,

‘Logic? ‘ SSS says, ‘What’s that?’

Bubba says, ‘I’ll give you an example. Do you have a weed eater?’

‘No.’

‘Then you’re a queer ain’t you SSS .

TE….I use epsom salt,vinegar and water to kill weeds….works pretty well but you’ll have to spray a lot over the course of the summer/fall . There are plenty of natural bug killers on the market that work well too .