ABSTRACT
Abram and Marie Friesen were picking fiddleheads near a brook on their New Brunswick farm when three Grumman Avengers passed directly overhead, engulfing them in a cloud of spray that burned their cheeks and eyes and made them cough. The Friesens, organic farmers who shunned pesticides, were furious. They knew that, as part of its spruce budworm control program, the New Brunswick government had contracted Forest Protection 30Limited to spray forest lands with a pesticide containing a highly toxic agent called fenitrothion. Just one week earlier, Dr. Friesen had asked the company not to spray his property.
