The most obcene thing I've ever seen on Televison!

[Botafogo]

I thought that would get some attention but I am not actually kidding either. I am watching the news and they run an ad for a lawn and garden GENERAL insecticide produced by our good (reformed) Nazi friends at Bayer that puts forth two propositions:

A) this stuff will kill every ant, flea, worm, millipede, katydid, cricket, lady bug or whatever in your yard.

and B) that this is a GOOD thing!

Has the average suburban lawn baron so little an understanding of the interlinked nature of even an artificial environment like his yard that he can't see the folly in killing everything that moves just so his dog won't bring in fleas or ants won't get on his picnic table???

Is this a natural outgrowth of the growing food hysteria and the overuse of antibacterial soaps? A prelude to spraying entire suburbs with agent orange to quell back yard canabis production? Or just plain idiocy? I never cease to be amazed......

Roberto