Ragwort: exaggerated risks
Published Date:
29 August 2008
With reference to a letter in the August 15 edition of The Local.
Simon Hart of the Countryside Alliance exaggerates the risk posed by ragwort.
This plant is undoubtedly poisonous but research internationally shows that once other common animal ailments with similar symptoms are excluded animal poisoning is rare as animals instinctively avoid it.
His members are reacting to a wave of hysterical exaggeration that appears every summer.
Rational examination shows those fears to be largely unfounded.
Ragwort seeds rarely travel more than a few metres from the parent plant so plants on road verges pose little threat.
It is also a myth that landowners and councils are under an automatic legal obligation to control it.
Neil Jones
www.ragwortfacts.com
Neath,
West Glamorgan
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29 August 2008 10:57 AM
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