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EARTH ACTION 81 Prince Street Charlottetown, PEI C1A 4R3 Phone: 902-621-0719 / 368-7337 Fax: 902-621-0717 (call first) Email: slabchuk@isn.net LETTER TO THE EDITOR October 14, 1998 Dear Editor, The Island Nature Trust has a couple of fundraisers this fall that capitalize on our love of birds - the autumn bird count and the bird seed sale. I find it distasteful that this group would make money off the backs of birds yet refuse to help protect these same birds from pesticide poisoning. When asked to join other organizations in a campaign to ban carbofuran, one of the most notorious bird-killing pesticides on Earth, the Trust refused. Earth Action is leading the efforts to have this "black plague of pesticides" banned on PEI and has support from the PEI Humane Society and the PEI Wildlife Federation. Other groups seeking a ban are World Wildlife Fund Canada, the Sierra Club of Canada, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the American Ornithologists' Union, one of the world's largest associations of bird scientists. The Canadian Wildlife Service of Environment Canada does not approve of the use of carbofuran on potatoes because of clear evidence of bird kills. Birds exposed to carbofuran die excruciatingly painful deaths. In B.C., over 40 Canada Geese were found dead or convulsing in a turnip field where carbofuran had been sprayed after a rain. The Trust says it doesn't have the expertise to evaluate the evidence. But the evidence is easily understood and it is damning. In my experience, some environmental groups are more concerned about maximizing fundraising profits by playing the middle of the road game than they are about advocating for justice. And nothing puts a muzzle on a group quicker than government and corporate ties. Earth Action remains free to advocate on behalf of the Earth, uncompromised by government and corporate funding. Sharon Labchuk, Earth Action
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