Those blue Pbi Slug pellets that are supposedly 'pet safe' will cause kidney damage in cats if the cats eat birds and animals that have ingested the slug pellets... you'll have bright blue vomit all over your house if it happens as it did to my first cat.

There is really no need for anyone other than major growers to use pesticides or weedkillers - there is always an alternative and one of those is to be not so bloody picky over how your apples look.

And even the major growers can find responsible methods if they look hard enough. It's the power of money that is driving them to find ever cheaper methods, regardless of how expensive they are to everyone else around them.

LTS