jim4596 - 7/4/2011 9:37 PM
troy goldsby - 7/4/2011 8:46 PM It is legal, and right, and the herbicides are needed!
I have refrained from posting since my first few posts. this is what makes our country great is that we can all have our own opinions. Happy July 4th everyone. anyway, your opinion is that its legal and right and needed. i will go out on a limb and say that no one on here agrees with you (or at least not many people). while i agree it is legal, its not right and its not needed. there are other alternatives than dumping poison in our waters. you have agreed with the statement that the grass can be removed by other means, but you say that its not "practical." practical or not, we (the member of CFF) dont want anymore chemicals dumped in our water. for me this has nothing to do with the fishing or killing the fish. i havent fished a tournament in over a year. in fact i think i have only fished a few times this year in TN. The reason i am against it is because herbicides are poison, plain and simple, and i dont want them dumped in the same body of water (TN river) that we get chattanooga's drinking water from. its that simple. you and your company are putting poison in our drinking water. It is poison that you are using, and anyone that read the labels on these items has to agree. you make money from dumping poison in the water. you are a salesman that must defend what he sales so that it remains legal so you can continue to do it to provide for your family. you want everyone to "think" its safe, good, and right. Good luck continuing to go around and tell everyone how "right and good" these chemicals are. while you are doing that, i will continue to stand up in opposition of your posioning of our drinking water. as i said before i am a lake front property owner and i am also a fisherman, but first and foremost i am someone that lives in chattanooga and i dont want the poison dumped in water that i drink from (hixson utility takes water from a spring located in soddy and tn american takes water directly from the tn river). this is no different than TVA dumping ash in the lake. it didnt kill anyone directly, but come back in 20 years and see how the cancer rates have changed in our area. posion is poison, and i dont care who approves of it. epa approved or not means nothing to me. this is simply the curtain that you hide behind to make money. that its "legal and epa approved." that alone doesnt make it right and healthy. there is nothing at all healthy, good, or right about what you do. this is evidenced by the "
<u><font color="#ff3300">no swimming</font></u> or drinking" after treatment. if you think that what you are doing is anything short of poisoning our water, then you are sadly mistaken. I will try not to post on this subject again as we are beating a dead, poisoned horse, but its awfully hard to stand by and watch people dump poison in our drinking water and then arrogantly try to tell us that its "good and right." you are screwing us with poison while you are personally profiting from it. plain and simple.
