What are the lower-risk alternatives to conventional pest control products?
The so-called lower-risk alternatives, or green alternatives, that are being proposed to replace conventional pest control products are not all as low risk or non-toxic as some people assume them to be. Nor are these products as efficient or efficacious as we are being led to believe. Nonetheless, the Government of Ontario will likely adopt some or all of the following criteria regarding products acceptable under its prohibition, using the relentlessly-flawed use of logic and facts: • The green alternative must be biological. • The green alternative must be arbitrarily ecological. • The green alternative must be natural. • The green alternative must be arbitrarily non-cosmetic. • The green alternative must be non-synthetic. • The green alternative must be allegedly non-toxic. • The green alternative must be organic. • The green alternative must be allegedly reduced-risk. In the fertilizer industry, many of the above criteria have been in use for municipal quotations and for organic and
