[Jackie07]

30, 40 years after Rachel Carson's "The Silent Spring" brought up the 'environment' issue, we are still seeing (facing) the same kind of nonsense every day!

We were visiting my Father-in-law last week and for three days I felt that I was 'dying' there. He tore up the rat poison pouches that were supposed to be placed 'intact' and disposed when they are 'torn' by the rodent. He placed those poison in three regular 'saucers' in open air thinking that will attract and kill the rodent more effectively.

This WWII veteran and retired high school principal somehow is fond of any kind of chemicals that 'kills'. Over the years (21 since I've joined the family), he has used different kind of chemicals to kill crikets, flies, fleas, roaches, and now rats. Somehow he refuses to 'winterproof' his doors and windows which is the root source of all these problems.

Because it does not affect him - just like those fatty dishes that had caused the cardiovascular disease of both my late Mother-in-law and my husband - he thinks it could not possibly be harmful to others. "It won't hurt anything!" Well, it is his house. And he wonders why fewer and fewer people had come to visit...