{"id":54,"date":"2013-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/2013\/02\/06\/pesticides-banned-for-cosmetic-use-in-ontario-canada\/"},"modified":"2013-02-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T00:00:00","slug":"pesticides-banned-for-cosmetic-use-in-ontario-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/2013\/02\/06\/pesticides-banned-for-cosmetic-use-in-ontario-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Pesticides banned for cosmetic use in Ontario, Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">Ontario\u2019s lawns, gardens, school yards and parks are a lot healthier since\u00a0the province\u2019s cosmetic pesticides ban came into effect on Earth Day, April 22,\u00a02009.<\/p>\n<p>The McGuinty government believes the use of pesticides to control weeds and\u00a0insects for purely cosmetic reasons presents an unnecessary risk to our families\u00a0and pets, especially when we can have healthier lawns and gardens without\u00a0chemicals.<br \/><span><\/span><br \/>We have listened to medical experts \u2013 like the Canadian Cancer Society \u2013 who\u00a0have made a convincing case for reducing our exposure to pesticides,\u00a0particularly children who are generally more susceptible to the potential toxic <br \/> effects of pesticides.<br \/><span><\/span><br \/><span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ene.gov.on.ca\/environment\/en\/category\/pesticides\/index.htm\">http:\/\/www.ene.gov.on.ca\/environment\/en\/category\/pesticides\/index.htm<\/a><br \/><span><\/span>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario\u2019s lawns, gardens, school yards and parks are a lot healthier since\u00a0the province\u2019s cosmetic pesticides ban came into effect on Earth Day, April 22,\u00a02009. The McGuinty government believes the use of pesticides to control weeds and\u00a0insects for purely cosmetic reasons presents an unnecessary risk to our families\u00a0and pets, especially when we can have healthier lawns<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"ReadMore\" href=\"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/2013\/02\/06\/pesticides-banned-for-cosmetic-use-in-ontario-canada\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyenvironmentgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}