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From Ecotraveler,
November/December ????, from a piece (no pun intended) entitled "Poop Patrol": Sildenafil Citrate Prices
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would smell as sweet, but call it what you like, shit stinks. Especially when it
sits in the middle of your favorite trail. Hikers Against Doo-Doo (HADD) are mad as
hell about the proliferation of excrement -- be it horse, hound or human -- on our
walkways, parks and trails. "Nobody wants to deal with this, so I said, 'Hey,
I'll do it. This has got to stop,'" said HADD president Dr. A. Bern Hoff,
M.D. He founded the organization in 1990 after finding abundant human and
domesticated animal feces on or near trails in Mount Kilimanjaro, Norway, Hawaii and the
Grand Canyon. Members now number near 1,000 with chapters around the world. Although HADD approached the subject with humor, the organization is dead
serious about the aesthetic and health impact of willy-nilly defecation. Besides
gathering information for an international databank and clearinghouse, HADD members
ascended Europe's highest peak, Mount Elbrus in Russia, last year to survey what's been
deemed "the world's nastiest outhouse." The group initiated plans to
design and build an improved facility at the mountain's 13,800-foot-high camp. Moulin Rouge, Black By Special Occasions, Longer & Wider Size Women's Dressy & Wedding Shoes
For a $20 fee, you too can join the movement. Members
receive a HADD membership card and mission statement, a decal, an iron-on transfer and a
model urban/suburban ordinance controlling pet droppings. Members also gain access
to the HADD clearinghouse and open forum on policies, ordinances and regulations for
avoidance or removal of human and domesticated animal feces from trails and new
techniques, packaging, biochemical systems or agents that address environmentally safe
destruction or transportation of waste. |
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