#chemlawn

Let me tell you about how I (and others) almost died because of this company, TruGreen/Chemlawn.  This also happened to me:

For the price of green lawns, children are also being poisoned. In 1985 a married couple in Sarasota, Florida, felt pressured by their neighbors to get their lawn treated. They hired a company, never thinking their 2-year-old daughter would be jeopardized. The company declared the yard would be safe about an hour after the chemicals were applied. However, soon after playing barefoot on the grass, the couple's daughter developed a rash all over her body, her urine turned dark brown, and she ran a high fever. Her doctor prescribed antibiotics, but her condition grew steadily worse. Her hands and feet swelled to twice normal size, blistered, and peeled. Her lips turned black and bled. Years later she is still permanently prone to headaches and has 40% hearing loss in her right ear.

The only difference is I'm not def, I was in NY, 3 or 4 years old, and WE DIDN'T USE THEM - OUR NEIGHBORS DID.

They told my parents that I was likely to die over the night. 

This company is inhumane and cruel to both humans and wildlife.  My friend told me just now:

Our former next door neighbors used to use them. They either sprayed my elderberry bushes that had ripe fruit or they were coated by the drift. I had an entire family of catbirds die. The parents had been teaching the babies how to get fruit off the bushes. I had dead birds all over my yard. Another time baby chickadees fledged out of the nest box on our trellis and they all died in the poisoned grass as the parents were trying to get them to safety under the hostas.

Hide yo kids, hide yo wife, hide yo husband, and hide yo wildlife, they poisoning every body out here.

In March 2005, the Toxics Action Center published a 96-page report listing the dangerous chemicals in the pesticide products of TruGreen ChemLawn. For more information about this report and Toxics Action Center campaign to pressure TruGreen ChemLawn to provide safer products, see www.toxicsaction.org.