CHAPTER 11 - The Best Control 2

“The choice, after all, is ours to make.” — Rachel CarsonI have consistently found that spraying insects with virtually any diluted cleaning product will kill theinsects faster, safer and cheaper than any “registered” pesticide poison, yet our “regulators” just asconsistently have tried to say these safe and effective (unregistered) cleaners must now be “registered”as “pesticides”. — S.L.T. in numerous in-service meetings.One of the Author’s favorite jokes is: There are two requirements for success. The first is not to tell anyoneeverything you know.“Inerts” – If any chemical is being used as an unregistered “inert” in any pesticide formula, how onearth can EPA decide the same exact chemical miraculously becomes an unregistered “pesticide” whenit is used to control pests all by itself? If you can honestly answer that question, you will become the“regulator” of the year.ONE LAST THOUGHT REGARDING THE USE OF UNREGISTERED PESTISAFES: QUITE OFTEN THEAUTHOR LIKES TO SIMPLY SPRAY OR MIST CRICKETS WITH TAP WATER IN HIS LECTURES; THE TAPWATER IN MANY CITIES KILLS ALL OF THE CRICKETS FASTER THAN “REGISTERED” PESTICIDE POI-SONS. May be the “regulators” should make the cities register their tap water as a poison.The search for “safe” synthetic pesticide poisons that are “better, faster, easier, newer, improved, etc.is a waste of time and money. There is nothing new under the sun. G-d always has and G-d always willprovide us with everything we will ever need.Don’t find fault, find a remedy. — Henry Ford“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait asingle moment before starting to improve theworld.” — Ann FrankKol Yisrael areivim zeh l’zeh = “We are responsible for one another.”482