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- From: falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk)
- Newsgroups: bionet.plants,rec.gardens,soc.culture.british
- Subject: Re: Domestication of poison ivy
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 23:20:52 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
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- In article <1992Nov13.152842.5843@infonode.ingr.com> jimreed@b23b.b23b.ingr.com writes:
- >In article <BxMIuM.Moq@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, cl27111@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Christopher Lindsey) writes:
- >|> This brings up the interesting issue of ethics in gardening. Is it
- >|> ethical for people to plant species that may damage native habitats (i.e.
- >|> kudzu, Purple loosestrife) if they find it attractive? Is it ethical to
- >|> plant harmful plants that have the ability to spread off of your own
- >|> property, such as Poison ivy?
- >|> ...
- >|> Just thought I'd bring that up... :)
- >
- >Personally, I'd call the topic of ethics in gardening odd rather than
- >interesting (or perhaps interesting because it's odd). But anyway,
- >let me extend your questions.
- >
- >Is it ethical for people to kill native plants if they find them
- >unattractive? Is it ethical to kill harmful plants that have sprung
- >up volunteer?
-
- Yes, and yes; because you're limiting the damage to the area where you
- kill the plants. (Unless, of course, you're killing endangered species.)
-
- If you import noxious non-natives; it's almost a certainty that the
- damage will spread. See kudzu in the south, killer bees in South
- America, rabbits in Australia, snails in Northern CA for examples.
-
- -ed falk, sun microsystems
- sun!falk, falk@sun.com
- To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags
- -- that is a loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal (Mark Twain).
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