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Since we bought our house, we're saturated in ads for pest control companies who want to spray our entire property to kill bugs. It's unbelievable that this is actually legal.

I think that the use of pesticides should be strictly limited to acute infestations -- or small specific things like a barrier placed on the foundation of the house for termite prevention.

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A time when cities had trucks drive around dousing entire neighborhoods in pesticide is well within living memory.

That's definitely still a thing in Michigan where I grew up. There are county departments dedicated to mosquito control.

Yep, it's just lovely living in an apartment complex that sprays poison everywhere on the property every month.

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