Comments on: Scare Tactic: Green Industry Attempts Witch Hunt Lawsuit

By: Jeffrey Lowes

Jeffrey Lowes — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 02:13:33 +0000

Re: Nathaniel Mitchell’s Post

I would suggest caution when attacking a person’s character directly in a public forum.

Secondly you need to understand I have been tasked with recovering the reputations and lost revenues for professional applicators in the turf care industry.

This no longer takes place in a council chamber or in the media.

Third I only work on behalf of the applicators and not the manufactures of the products. Any claims made that I work for the chemical companies, (like on this forum) are false and misleading designed to question my integrity.

We have designed four principles for the industry (professional applicators)

• The products have to be registered by the PMRA
• The products have to work
• The products have to cost effective
• The products and methods can not increase our environmental foot print

As an industry we are indifferent on if the product is organic or synthetic as long as the product we are using meets our four principles. As an industry the door is open for anyone to bring new products to the table provided they meet the four principles. Our industry is always looking for new effective and efficient methods.

As to my actions in respect to the activists and government officials behind the pesticide ban in Ontario, Canada: Individuals are currently being pursued under criminal and civil actions to recover economic losses.

With this being an election year in Ontario, this will be a very public affair.

By: Nathaniel Mitchell

Nathaniel Mitchell — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 02:49:54 +0000

Mr. Lowes,
It’s laughable that you would not want to be associated with a low-life like Uncle Adloph. You may not be the same person, but you both advocate for the same deathly poisons. So what’s the difference?
Nathaniel Mitchell, a proud Ontario organic lawn grower

By: Paul Tukey

Paul Tukey — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:44:13 +0000

Mr. Lowes,
As you’ll see upon closer reading, it’s Mary Brown who believes that you and Uncle Adolph are one and the same person. We’ll let your response stand as your clarification.
PT

NOTE: This is the first time anyone named Jeffrey Lowes has posted to this blog using this email. The entries from “Uncle Adloph” have come to us from a different email address. We do not post email addresses as a matter of policy.

By: Jeffrey Lowes

Jeffrey Lowes — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:14:11 +0000

Can you please remove this post? “Uncle Adolph, a.k.a. Jeffrey Lowes”. I have never submitted any material to this blog. You also imply in the following post from Mr. Tukey that I am “Uncle Adolph” This is false and misleading. Please remove.

By: John

John — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:54:32 +0000

I have been treating lawns with organics for over 35 years. I have 800 very satisfied customers who can atest to the fact that organics work. The problem is 90% of the public feels that organics don’t work! For every hundred new customers that I sign up, 60 of them will cancel within only 1 year. That’s why it has taken me 35 years to achieve only 800 customers.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:06:07 +0000

Same, we used Paul’s methods, reseeding and admending the soil. Didn’t work so great the first year, but the grass is growing very lush when we did it again in the spring and fall. Some small area’s still didn’t take as well. Maybe soil is too compact?

By: Lynn

Lynn — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:01:51 +0000

I also don’t think most labels warn enough. The labels makes this stuff seem benign. It warns nothing of the proper things to wear or of the potential harm to children, pregnant women and health of everyone coming into contact with it. A pack of cigerette has more health warning.

And shame on the pesticide/chemical industry for sueing people for free speech! Tyranny! It really shows the ruthlessness of such an selfish industry.

By: Doug Rankin

Doug Rankin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:53:21 +0000

If you want a decent organic lawn, you can do it. We use a little lime from time to time, and some gypsum to neutralize our dog’s urine, and leave the clippings on the lawn. And of course our grass is well matched to our sun/shade mix, and soil. Totally organic, and it looks robust. There’s hope!

By: Doug Rankin

Doug Rankin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:41:26 +0000

To An Undeniable Truth: You are grossly misinformed. Check your sources. Not Fox News. Not CNBC. Not the internet. In peer-reviewed science journals, ‘Climategate’ is what they call a ‘non-event’ – spun to make a story out of something that really had to do with internal politics, and not the legitimacy of climate science. Learn to follow-the-money, or you will be forever duped by big business. Honestly, if you put politics and fear aside, even a two year old can deduce that when you pee into a pool enough, that acid is going to increase and the pool is going to turn yellow. Now apply that thinking to the unprecedented inputs of carbon into a fixed and finite system, and the unprecedented increases of heat in our atmosphere and acid in our oceans. Then, ask yourself….is it coincidence that these increases in temperature and acidity coincide with the greatest human poplulation in history putting out the greatest amount of carbon in it’s history. If you think it’s coincidence, then you might as well continue to deny and deny til the day you die, cuz you aren’t interested in gettting at the truth, but rather playing politics and being a dupe for big business. And I am NOT opposed to business…I’m in business, before you even go down that road.

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