Toad lickers and treated lumber

By Herbert Guerry President

Savannah Wood Preserving Co., Inc. Savannah, Ga.

playgrounds.

The media constantlY attempt to agitate us. If it's not their man-eating termites or wood preservatives, it's Y2K, or asteroids crashing into the Earth, no possibility of winning whatever war we happen to be fighting at the moment, or toad licking (more on that later-be patient), or killer bees.

At least the old killer bee story contained a grain of truth: Some Years ago, a vigorous African strain of honeybees had been released accidentally in Brazil and was "headed north."

The press loved it. Story after story reported how the stinging little rascals might make it unsafe even to go outside. I mentioned the killer bee stories to an anthropologist friend who had lived for years in rural Africa. He laughed and said that he had sPent nights in village huts with colonies of African honeybees living in the rafters, but nobody paid much attention to them. He admitted the bees could be dangerous, but the danger depended upon circumstances. One had to do something foolish to get stung, and even then, death was not certain. The press could have reported as much, but that wouldn't attract readers, viewers or, what is most important to the media, advertisers.

Over the last year or so, a number of sensationalized and often sloppily researched news stories and editorials questioning the safety of CCA have appeared. They panicked Florida's governor, Jeb Bush, into banning CCA products on that state's playgrounds, and helped the EPA to reach its "vol(Please tum to Page 35)

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