A message from Amazon announces new items for sale in its garden section. There are picnic blankets, chairs, England flags (?!) and other harmless suggestions, but by far the lion’s share of the list is taken up with various ways of killing plants and animals. Number 3 on the list is a four litre container of “Extra Strong Glyphosate Spray”, the dangerous chemical which is only still legal in the UK because the government keeps extending the deadline for the ban. In the first 40 items listed alone there are no fewer than eleven insect and bug killers, including cruel sticky traps for “cockroaches, spiders, flies, bugs stink bugs and other pests [my italics]” as well as another brand of glyphosate. They really need to get with the Zeitgeist.
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