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Re: Goals of Childhood

Re: Goals of Childhood

06/03/12 - posted by Tim Dineen

So it's better to spend millions of dollars on plastic grass made by Monsanto Textiles Company in a foreign country that itself is rife with injury problems than pay gardeners here in the United States and keeping tax dollars local?

This is a little bit more than NIMBY-ism from east coast transplants. I grew up on 46th & Ulloa.

It's about caring for our own. It's about jobs for locals vs profits for multinational corporations who are raping our environment and poisoning the very children you seem so keen on protecting.

Friction burns, blisters, and a myriad of other injuries occur on artificial turf - not to mention water runoff and heat absorption that can make play difficult and unsafe.

I'm tired of seeing paradise paved. As Joni Mitchell so eloquently put it they "Took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum. And charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em."

Kids deserve to play on real grass and get real grass-stains on their knees. And we should be raising children who care about jobs and the environment.

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