The hectic life which leads too often, there will no longer be able to observe ..... until an appeal hearing, that of Prof. Fabio Taffetani Professor of Systematic Botany University Politecnica delle Marche, there awakens a sleepy indifference and selfish and makes us aware of and participate in a reality no longer acceptable, no longer sustainable. We want to convince of the absolute validity and indispensability of certain interventions, but the environment? And the protection of public health?
and conservation of biodiversity? The case of Prof. F. Taffetani when referring to a specific Italian province, the Ancona, complaint behavior and way of thinking rampant in other areas of Italian territory, perhaps right next to our homes ...
SILENT SPRING / 1 Or how the Province of Ancona spreading poisons and senseless death on the streets
Appeals Fabio Taffetani 
PRACTICE ABSURD I am deeply shocked, and so all the people with whom I had occasion to speak to the arrogance, superficiality and ignorance demonstrated by the Province of Ancona nel perseguire l’insensato progetto di trattare sistematicamente i bordi stradali con diserbante.
A porcupine swept along the Conero Direttissima the backdrop of a weeding grass strips when subjected to: the animal was killed by a car and not by the glyphosate, however, is a symbol of Death distributed free with the active participation of the Province of Ancona, instead favoring the maintenance and growth of the naturalness of roads and waterways, it determines, with the indiscriminate use and free of weed control, alteration and loss of biodiversity (April 2010).
"There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to flow in harmony with the surrounding landscape ... the evil influence of a sudden hit the whole area and everything began to change ... the shadow of death hovered everywhere ... the trees, came to the flowering season, but the bees did not dance more of the flowers, so there was no pollination and fruit had the edge ... road before so attractive, were now lined with vegetation so bleak and withered that seemed devastated by fire ... no magic, no enemy action had stopped the rise of a new life: the people themselves they were guilty. " Sembra proprio che, 50 anni dopo la pubblicazione di Primavera silenziosa, la maledizione della pazzia autodistruttiva che Rachel Carson presagiva, già all’inizio degli anni sessanta, osservando i primi effetti dell’abuso irrazionale della chimica nelle campagne americane (Silent Spring, 1962), stia giungendo alle sue fasi più preoccupanti anche nella nostra regione, un territorio che dovrebbe avere cultura, tradizioni, prodotti della terra, paesaggio e ambiente tra le risorse più preziose e condivise. Ci sono sempre più agricoltori che utilizzano il diserbo anche al di fuori delle aree coltivate, ma anche semplici citizens that spray the grass strips in the house with herbicides to prevent the growth of weeds. The practice of weeding born to the control of diners in agriculture, mistakenly considered as an alternative to mowing, it is now proposed by the Province of Ancona, supported by the chemical industries that produce more aggressive and less selective herbicide on the market today (glyphosate) for the "dignity" of public roads and under the pretext of fighting pollen allergies (actually, rather than reduce the sources of pollen production, it significantly increased with the proliferation of grasses, in addition to the spray in the air principles of toxic chemicals even in urban areas and high traffic density), knowing that, once the first treatment should be continued in subsequent years to prevent the proliferation of more aggressive herbs, free to expand, following the disappearance of the vegetation presided over the ground.
A porcupine swept along the Conero Direttissima the backdrop of a weeding grass strips when subjected to: the animal was killed by a car and not by the glyphosate, however, is a symbol of Death distributed free with the active participation of the Province of Ancona, instead favoring the maintenance and growth of the naturalness of roads and waterways, it determines, with the indiscriminate use and free of weed control, alteration and loss of biodiversity (April 2010).
Excerpt from the book Silent Spring in which Rachel Carson foresaw environmental catastrophes, we have experienced in recent decades, seeing the first effects of the abuse of chemical irrational in rural America.
outlawed a PROVINCE
Unexpectedly, the colors of spring nell'anconetano this year, instead of the bright green and bright colors of flowers, sono marrone, ruggine e arancione (FOTO); la Provincia di Ancona ha infatti iniziato ad applicare interventi estensivi e sistematici di diserbo lungo le strade di sua competenza, tanto che a partire da questa stagione avrà qualche problema a esporre nei cantieri stradali il classico cartello “STIAMO LAVORANDO PER VOI”.
Margine erboso trattato con diserbante sistemico: non c’è alcun beneficio né estetico (solo a guardarlo fa venire l’orticaria, non solo in senso figurato, procurando irritazioni cutanee e altre reazioni allergiche), né beneficio funzionale perché viene eliminata la vegetazione naturale che for decades has effectively protected the soil (thus exposing it to erosion), nor the economic benefit because there is still a need to intervene with mowing on both the untreated than on the desiccated, especially where vegetation is already developed at the time of treatment.  |
Among the precautions for use of the herbicide used (based on the active ingredient glyphosate) is in fact forbidden spray the edges of streams and wetlands because of its proven toxicity, even at low concentrations, on aquatic organisms. Yet pumps poison in the province have not stopped in front of channels and manifolds (PHOTO) at the sides of roads.
clear effect of the interventions of weeding on the side ditches that drain the base of the slope along the road from the bottom of Vallesina, near Jesi, salt to Mazzangrugno (March 2010).  |
| for all risks arising from the use of pesticides and the damage that has been procured in the world only by the U.S. multinational chemical manufacturer of the active ingredient glyphosate, is sufficient evidence collected by the French journalist Marie- Monique Robin on the now famous book "The World According to Monsanto" (Arianna Editrice, April 2009). |
"Our studies show that glyphosate acts as a destroyer of the activity of cytochrome P450 aromatase in mammals at concentrations 100 times lower than the recommended use in agriculture, and this is evident on the cells of the human placenta only after 18 hours , and can also influence gene expression of the enzyme aromatase. It also appears that partially disrupts the ubiquitous reductase activity, albeit at higher concentrations. ... Also, at higher doses still below the classical dilution for agricultural purposes, its toxicity on placental cells could induce some reproduction problems. "
25/88 REGIONAL LAW PROHIBITS USE OF AREAS Pesticides URBAN
But, as if it were not enough compelling reasons stated above, the spray arms of the province have not been arrested nor in any way on the outskirts of the villages (PICTURE), despite a regional law expressly prohibiting the use of pesticides in urban (LR n. 25 of 1988).
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| Two sample images of the many interventions even within urban areas: over in the neighborhood of Sappanico in the Municipality of Ancona (but was not spared even the much more urbanized way Pinocchio Tevernelle) in and under ' urban area of \u200b\u200bFilottrano (April 2010) |
Considering that the effects of treatment with systemic herbicides appear after a few days, there is a real risk that, especially along the streets of periphery and in the less busy, someone along the roadsides to collect wild plants for food (such as wild asparagus or wild chicory, much research in this period) without being aware of chemical contamination. The lack of any reporting of the interventions so far carried out by the Province of Ancona is a particularly serious and detrimental to the safety of citizens.
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| It should be noted, however, that the extensive use of systematically weeding and includes a number of drawbacks, including: |
(unsuspecting motorists, motorcyclists, cyclists, pedestrians, gatherers, farmers, citizens) 
spraying a toxic chemical that acts at a distance of several days (depending on the concentration
can show its effects at a distance several days and remain in 
spraying a toxic chemical that acts at a distance of several days (depending on the concentration soil and vegetation for at least a week) along roads and in villages;
- sets out the slopes subject to landslides and weeding - drastically lowers the plant and animal biodiversity and the ability to self  of the many semi-natural habitats that provide, in addition to good looks, the |
| - significantly reduces the absorption of carbon dioxide and killing of |
With what authority the Provincial Police may intervene in cases of violation of these standards by farmers or ordinary citizens when the same administration to evade them?
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