Herbicide is a party pooper.
Woodland Park Zoo has canceled its spring sale of fecal compost, or Zoo Doo, because it contains unacceptable levels of a herbicide called clopyralid.
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Is this quality journalism? No sh**! Talk about a reporter getting a crappy assignment. Hay, It probably put herbicide herself. But she seems to have gotten a scoop.
The story instigates thinking about where else such herbicide residues might be hiding. Did the natural fertilizer I put on the garden cause my tomatoes and peas not to grow? How was it verified that the herbicide does not harm the animals, or the animal in me? These are not questions to poop-poop.
Clopyralid is commonly used on hay and wheat fields for the control of broadleaf weeds. Unlike most other herbicides, it does not break down in the heat of the composting ... More »
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