Fellow Allotment Holders

You are probably aware of the withdrawal of the herbicide aminopyralid in July last year after a national outcry about the damage caused by it since the first manifestation on potato crops sprayed with slurry in Scotland in 2007.
Dow Agrochemicals have quietly applied for it to be reinstated and this seems likely to be granted by Govt unless protests from influential groups and individuals can prevent it.
I have put a petition on the No 10 website http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/aminopyralidban/
and ask as many as possible of your members and their contacts to sign it. For those who are unfamiliar with the problem, full details of the story which started in early 2008 can be found at http://www.glallotments.btik.com/p_Contaminated_Manure.ikml

Thank you in advance John Shobbrook, Black Horse Allotments, Wednesbury, West Mids