RAGWORT - This weed kills 6500 horses a year and ministers want us all
to help stamp it out..
This statement
was in my daily paper recently, but I have long known of it`s dangers and it has been a
notifiable weed for many years, meaning that if anyone is seen with it on their land, by
law they must get rid of it.. This in itself is not easy as the seeds can lie dormant in
the soil for twenty years and if you just cut the plant down it will regrow next year
twice as big. Ragwort must be pulled out, preferably before it seeds. It`s poison
causes fatal liver damage to grazing horses, condemning them to an agonising death.
What many
people don`t know is that Ragwort is also toxic to
humans..
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