Editor:
We get a free copy of the Journal every week because it is paid for by advertisers. So, when I see an ad for Bayer Crop Science Complete Insect Killer for a mere $8.99 at Ace “The Helpful Place” (June 13), I am both saddened and horrified. Bayer’s Complete Insect Killer’s main ingredient is Imidacloprid, a neonicotinoid which has been implicated in bee death. How is this helpful? Good people put trust in your advertisers and want to support them because they enable the North Coast Journal to exist. We need that trust to be upheld. Therefore, I would like to suggest that the Journal review advertising guidelines and consider refusing advertising for toxic and dangerous products which harm us all. What do you think?
Carol Moné, Trinidad
This article appears in Marimba!.
Thank you for that letter. It is important info that everyone should be made aware of and I hope that the NCJ can find a way to take the authors suggestion.
Well if you’re going to blast Ace Hardware, how about all the other “grow” related advertisers? How much of these products are used in grows that are illegally diverting water out of creeks that support ESA-listed juvenile salmon and steelhead? Or are used in indoor grows that are abusing the PG+E CARE program? Just saying……………