The Clinton-Gore Administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has again proven to be the unchallenged center for environmental nonsense and dishonesty.

Despite not one case of proven illness, the EPA has banned a major pesticide, methyl parathion, that has been used in fruit and vegetable production for decades. The result will be less productive farming, or the need to cultivate more land to grown the same numbers of crops.

We currently feed twice as many people as lived in the 1950s with essentially the same 37 percent of the planet's land area. These higher crop yields, due to advances in farming — and judicious use of pesticides — have saved more than 15 million square miles of wildlife habitat which would have otherwise been plowed.

As for the dangers of pesticides, we've added 30 years to our lifespan in the 20th Century, eight of them since we started spraying pesticides. The activist Clinton-Gore EPA's clean air standards were recently found false and not based on demonstrable scientific data by a federal court.

Now we have this pesticide ban that will require more habitat and woodlands to be turned into acreage. Whose side are these guys on? Do they know what they're doing?

Write your congressman and senators and tell them you protest the Clinton-Gore decade of deceit — and especially the knuckleheads at EPA.

William H. Fielder
Peachtree City





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