Californian has something to say about proposed moth spraying
Mim, of VeganReader.com, posted the following comment on "Ruling helps California residents - and invasive moth - breathe easier." Her response was substantial enough Project: Green Industry thought it warranted it's own posting.
Greetings Project Green Folks!
Thank you for giving this space on your blog.
While it is a good thing that the governor has called for some tests to be done, there are 2 vast problems with his order that aren't allowing any of us to catch our breath or stop fighting.
1) The toxicity studies are going to be short term. They will not measure the short or long-term effects of chronic exposure CDFA is threatening us with. Remember, their plan is to spray us 5 nights a month, 9 months a year for 10 or more years. So, unless the tests include long term studies of what happens to a person after they are sprayed with pesticides and fatal PM10 pollution 450 times over a decade, testing will not give an adequate picture of the actual harm that will be done to us.
2) These tests will be overseen by - guess who - CDFA, author or the spray, in conjunction with OEHHA, the corrupt group that dismissed the hundreds of reports filled out by families who were sickened by the 2007 spraying. They didn't speak to a single victim or doctor. They just threw the data in the garbage and glibly announced that they couldn't make a connection between pesticide poisoning and spraying pesticide on people.
Because the governor is allowing these criminals (CDFA was just convicted by a superior court of violating CEQA) to be in charge of the testing, their findings are a foregone conclusion. They will say the spray is safe, when our doctors and scientists have come forward one by one to say it is incredibly toxic and will result in human fatality.
CDFA has made it their policy to deceive the public in order to receive federal funding for their program of spraying human beings with pesticide.
So, we can't breath easy. We can't stop fighting this.
These things need to happen:
1) The moth must be declassified. It is incorrectly classified as a Class A pest, according to modern science. It needs to be downgraded, and then all this would just go away.
2) Testing MUST be conducted by independent third party experts...not groups like CDFA that stand to benefit financially or professionally from spraying.
3) Our governor and any future governor needs to get the message that human experimentation is a violation of our state and US constitutions, as well as the globally-upheld Nuremberg code. It will not be permitted to happen here and suggesting that human experimentation is acceptable will be immediate grounds for dismissal from public office.
I really appreciate you covering this issue and urge your group to do everything you can to stop America from going down this road. We cannot go green while we're turning blue from pesticide poisoning.
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