[sdiy] Another RoHS casualty (was: SDIY vs RoHS)

[drheqx]

>On the other hand, one doesn't read much about any serious attempts to
>ban the wide-spread use of those toxic herbicides and pesticides on
>lawns, golf courses (wastes of crop and pasture land), etc., that are
>known to be causing real problems like cancer and a loss of food for
>wildlife, not to mention the loss of wild herbs that can be used for
>healing purposes.  Yet, the environmental extremists ban lead and
>re-introduce wolves into areas where people's pets and livestock are
>killed by the 4-footed thugs, while also making it illegal to shoot
>the wolves to defend their property.  Weird.  Very, very, weird.


Lead is a high profile case backed by 70's media exposure ( anti-paint
chip eating ), so it's an easy target. Food is a big product in the US (
by percentage of land used for it's production, and the "feed the world
factor" ), and I seriously doubt that the EPA would be able to stop
farmers from using toxic crap as fast as they can get rid of lead. They
will only go after bad primary ingredients. 

As was stated earlier, nobody is going after the car battery! So you
have to wonder where the true drivers are for this latest anti-lead
campaign

heqx 





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