Subject: [Tweeters] Scotts Miracle-Gro -- the bird-killing company?
Date: Mar 27 12:14:49 2012
From: Amy Shumann - daccshumann at gmail.com


Great article! People should also know that these products are still in the
store. My husband bought a cake of Morning Song suet at Safeway about a
week ago - he read the article but didn't recognize the Morning Song brand
as one of Scott's. The sku number matched (packaged in 2009) what has been
recalled. He checked the Scott's website and it just says something about
salmonella - nothing about pesticides in the product. I'm sure glad we
didn't put it out. Amy

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Devorah the ornithologist <
birdologist at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi everyone,
>
> i have spent the last 4 days digging, digging, digging into this story
> about the Scotts Miracle-Gro company's poisoned birdseed. thanks to
> the efforts of a friend of mine, i also managed to get the court
> documents for this case -- not an easy task unless you know someone.
> anyway, after all that work, writing and rewriting, and then the
> lawyering, my story has finally been published.
>
> the short story: the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company pleads guilty to
> knowingly selling poisoned birdseed and lawn and garden care products
> containing undocumented pesticides to an unsuspecting public.
>
> the long story can be read here:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/grrlscientist/2012/mar/21/2
>
> i think this story is important to anyone who feeds wild birds or
> keeps birds, who gardens or grows their own food, or who has kids or
> pets running around on their lawns.
>
> cheers,
>
>
> --
> GrrlScientist
> Devorah Bennu, PhD
> birdologist at gmail.com
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