The Ontario government has a chance to win my heart this Valentine's Day if it commits to making a strong law to ban the cosmetic use of pesticides throughout the province. But the pesticide industry wants to make sure cosmetic pesticides can continue to be sold at your local gardening store, leaving the law to limit only their use.

Why keep them on store shelves if it's illegal to use them?

What do you think?

You can auto-magically send a pesticide-free, zero-emission flower* to Premier of Ontario Dalton McGuinty for Valentine’s Day, letting him know you want a ban on the sale, as well as the use.

Let’s walk through this for a minute.

Sixteen-hundred cases of acute pesticide poisoning in Ontario each year—about a half of those are children under the age of six...  pesticide exposure is linked to cancer and other health problems...  children are particularly vulnerable to the harmful effects of pesticides....kids like to play on lawns … pesticides kill friendly insects that pollinate flowers and agricultural crops.

All that for what…making sure a lawn doesn’t have clover or dandelions?

Hmmmm…..

Are you thinking what I’m thinking?

Premier McGuinty has opened the public debate on this - let him know that you support a ban on both the use  and the ­sale of lawn and garden pesticides.

You can also send a pesticide-free, zero-emission flower* to Premier of Ontario Dalton McGuinty for Valentine’s Day, letting him know you want a ban on the SALE, as well as the use.