Re: RC: poison plants

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated 11/2/99 7:22:07 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
robandcarla@hotmail.com writes:

<< You are starting a petetion to eradicate a PLANT!!!  >>

No, not trying to eradicate the plant.  Simply trying to get the CA highway 
department to discontinue its policy of using oleander as a median for 
thousands and thousands of miles of divided highways, and to remove the ones 
that it has already put there over many years.  This has been a very 
artificial use of the plant, way beyond how it grows in nature.  If it is 
eradicated IN THE HIGHWAY SYSTEM and no longer used as an ornamental by 
public agencies, that doesn't mean by ANY stretch that it will stamp it off 
the face of the earth.  It thrived long before there was a government to 
reproduce it like wildfire, for goodness sake.  This plant is a SERIOUS 
health hazard to animals and humans.  Its flagrant propagation by the 
government, IMO, is just as outrageous as the wholesale passing out of 
experimental pills to our Gulf War forces by the military, leaving many with 
serious and permanent neurological damage.  The problem here is a government 
that doesn't check the facts before going off on some half-baked scheme, not 
the preservation of the hardy and plentiful oleander!

Heidi


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