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Stop Fumigating Citizens without Their Consent
Tens of thousands California residents are being sprayed under the
cover of night with pesticides containing partly unknown chemicals.
These sprayings are done not to
protect residents from a clear and present public health danger, but
rather to protect special interests worried about eradicating the Light
Brown Apple Moth (LBAM).
Sign here to help stop the spray.
The LBAM spray operations in Central
Coast counties of Monterey and Santa Cruz resulted in over 600 reports
of health illnesses. State authorities have not only failed to respond,
but now plan new LBAM aerial spray operations in the San Francisco Bay
Area.
Californians have a right to refuse fumigation without proof of a clear
and present public health danger. Any mandatory pesticide spraying of
chemicals must be shown to address a clear and present public health
danger, and must be approved by the people in the area to be sprayed
with a vote.
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The LBAM eradication
spraying has been ordered by the Secretary of Agriculture, and due to a
declared "state of emergency," representatives and residents are
currently legally powerless to stop this. The legitimacy of this
so-called "emergency" is uncertain; the LBAM poses no risk to human
health but rather a contested threat to certain crops and plants.
Yet,
government agencies approving the LBAM plan admit that the pesticide
could pose a threat to some people, stating "not all health effects can
be predicted and because the general population includes susceptible
(people), such as children, the elderly and those with chronic
diseases, we cannot provide a definitive cause for their symptoms
[experienced after the spraying in Santa Cruz and Monterey]."
Read
the following letter from Assembly member John Laird of the 27th
district to the Secretary of Agriculture demanding explanation. In his
letter on September 24, 2007 you will see a dialog between the
Assemblymember and the Secretary on this issue:
http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a27/moth.htm
The
bottom line is that the Secretary of Agriculture secured power to
conduct LBAM aerial spraying of chemicals which at least in part were
of unknown composition over urban areas of California against public
outcry and concern.
We need laws that protect us and our
environment, not special interests, and to ensure that we are not
subjected to chemicals against our individual rights without an
immediate health danger, due process, and a public vote.
Additional information is available at:
http://www.stopthespray.org/
http://www.care2.com/