(02-10-2015, 03:19 PM)Catherine Wrote: The household cleaner issue is even worse. Most household cleaners are way too dangerous to use in an ordinary home. A product that warns that it is dangerous to skin and clothing is then sprayed into the air and fine droplets are inhaled. If it harms your clothes and skin, what does it do to your lungs?
So true. There are many people whose pets are suffering from what have been diagnosed as allergies. Many more people than there used to be -also are suffering from allergies. While some of these can be food related, what people spray into the air, launder the pets' blankets with, clean their carpets with -will all affect the animals at home. And some are heavy and will lie at lower levels in the air for a while before settling or dissipating. Those are the levels at which pets are breathing!
Natural products are far safer, especially when using ingredients like bicarbonate of soda, vinegar, lemon juice and lavender oil. But plain old WATER does a brilliant job when used in a steam cleaner. There are many hand held lightweight steam cleaners, and no chemicals are needed at all. Plus chemical cleaners cost a lot of money, if you count all the usual household cleaning products that people think their kitchens should be stocked with.
(02-10-2015, 03:19 PM)Catherine Wrote: Just because we want to go down the wrong road doesn't mean we should force our gentle cousins to take that road too.
So very true. But it seems manufacturing companies, and big business don't even wish to take indigenous peoples' needs into account....or poor people in certain areas. Just as they disregard the Orangutans. It's the same problem of their own profits coming first and so what? about who may be damaged in the process.
