{"id":63,"date":"2021-04-20T11:24:59","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T11:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/samford-reality-check-healthy-environment-group-weed-this\/"},"modified":"2021-04-20T14:11:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T14:11:52","slug":"samford-reality-check","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/articles\/samford-reality-check\/","title":{"rendered":"Samford Reality Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wsite-content-title\" style=\"text-align:left;\">Samford Reality Check<\/h2>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;display:block;\">Imagine Samford Valley as picturesque\u00a0rolling hills with green pastures and sounds of birds and full of life.\u00a0\u00a0Flowing,\u00a0 crystal clear water,\u00a0grazing horses and cows, children playing in parks, people riding horses,\u00a0cyclists, all breathing the clear winters air.\u00a0 This is why we choose to live here in\u00a0Samford is it not?<br \/><span><\/span><br \/><span><\/span>Now for the reality check! Yes the\u00a0mountains are beautiful but unfortunately the water is not always crystal clear\u00a0and the air is not always as clear as it seems.\u00a0 Many roadsides are not a picture of\u00a0life but a sad picture of death, killed off from a huge amount of exposure to pesticides, in fact one spraying contractor informed us about the amount he can\u00a0use in one single day, 800litres of glyphosate alone soaking into our precious earth, I wonder how many contactors there are working every day in our\u00a0area.\u00a0 Are we thinking ahead and\u00a0considering our next generation of children?\u00a0 Are we doing the right thing by them or\u00a0are we too short sighted in our thinking? Is the use of pesticides now worth\u00a0unbalancing nature\u2019s rhythms far into the future? How much work will our\u00a0children need to do in order to rebalance the earth from the damage we are\u00a0causing right now? <br \/><span><\/span><br \/><span><\/span>New\u00a0alarming evidence becomes available all the time and we encourage you to read\u00a0information on our website and understand that residual chemicals may harm the\u00a0earth, people and animals. Most people believe it is safe and ok to spray\u00a0pesticide chemicals and that it is biodegradable and does not cause harm. \u00a0A slight breeze of wind can cause\u00a0pesticides to spray drift so please we ask that you consider your family,\u00a0neighbours and animals next time you choose to spray.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span>Thank you<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samford Reality Check Imagine Samford Valley as picturesque\u00a0rolling hills with green pastures and sounds of birds and full of life.\u00a0\u00a0Flowing,\u00a0 crystal clear water,\u00a0grazing horses and cows, children playing in parks, people riding horses,\u00a0cyclists, all breathing the clear winters air.\u00a0 This is why we choose to live here in\u00a0Samford is it not?Now for the reality check!<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"ReadMore\" href=\"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/articles\/samford-reality-check\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":74,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions\/97"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}