There is quite a culture difference between New Jersey’s and Oregon. Evidently every Jersey Lawn needs this poison applied like sunshine!

With drains to the river what poisons do they think won’t leech the 20 feet from the lawn to the drain?

The big culture difference is that Oregonians who have been part of families who have lived in Oregon a long time generally are anti-pesticide. (Even though the logging industry uses pesticides without restrictions.) All over Eugene there are yard signs stating: “this yard is a bee sanctuary” and “pesticide free”.

The simple fact remains. Unconstrained capitalism allows a business to sell the poisoning of a domestic space as a product, even if that poison is liable to travel into other places in the watershed, including rivers and estuaries.