In an attempt to reach out to America’s most compassionate and aware minds, I have written the following letter to John Robbins, author of the landmark books Diet for a New America and The Food Revolution.

Dear John,
I went vegan some 18 years ago after reading Diet for a New America. It is hard to think of another book that has had such a profound effect on my life. I hold you as a friend, in the very highest esteem.

I am writing to you now of an urgent matter, knowing the concern you feel not only for animals, but for people and their total environment.

The USDA and the CDFA is about to begin aerially spraying the SF Bay Area with a combination of particulate plastic (as in biochemical warfare), carcinogenic pesticide and mystery ingredients, the nature of which are being kept secret under US patent laws.

San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and the surrounding cities will be aerially sprayed beginning in summer every 30 days for an unspecified number of years.

The government has declared California to be in a state of emergency so that it was possible for them to begin spraying the Monterey area without first conducting a Environmental Impact Report on this never-before-tested spray. More than 600 people fell ill there, in what is a relatively rural area. We can expect thousands of terrible illnesses once they begin spraying the Bay Area metropolis.

The USDA and CDFA are breaking two laws – one which forbids the testing of chemicals on pregnant women and children, and the other which prohibits the flying of airplanes at low altitudes over urban areas.

In addition to the illegal aspects of this horrible undertaking, the unethical practice of filling the lungs of humans and animals with particulate plastic which then slowly breaks down to time-release pesticides, once inhaled, is so ghastly, it’s almost hard to believe this can be happening.

People have fled the Monterey area after their protests were overruled by the government agencies and panic has begun in the Bay Area now that we know we are the next to be sprayed. I have never been so frightened in my life.

Our bodies, our water and our land will be filled with plastic forever.

The cause of all of this assault on the people of California? The supposed agricultural threat of a tiny brown moth called the Light Brown Apple Moth which has done 0 damage in California and has already been 99% eradicated, according to officials, by sticky traps. Yet, CDFA insists they must spray us over and over again. Zero damage has been done here and in Hawaii, this moth as seen as a harmless, and even beneficial insect.

The apparent actual cause of what they are doing is to prevent corporate traders from having restrictions put on international trade because of the presence of the moth.

So, like everything else, it comes down to money.

People here are going nuts, John, screaming that they remember DDT. I even listened to an ex-Marine talk about how he was told Agent Orange was harmless. People are remembering that the government who is telling us we’ll all be fine inhaling plastic and toxins for the rest of our lives is the same government that told people that exposure to nuclear testing was just like ‘standing in sunshine.’

If the government is allowed to aerially spray the Bay Area, I believe this will be the beginning of a new nationwide policy of spraying chemicals on urban port cities to protect corporate profits and I am feeling helpless and hopeless to stop it.

Do you know about what is happening to us in California? Who can I write to, who can I contact to help us counteract our own government? Even the National Organic Program (NOP) and the California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) are supporting the spraying because they have been promised that they can still sell their sprayed products as organic.

After years of struggling with auto-immune illness, after 18 years of eating organic (soon to become a thing of the past in California) I do not want to be sprayed. I do not want my family to be abused in this way.

Can you suggest anything to me, John? I am longing for voices of reason, for wisdom, for the power to stop this from happening to the people of our land.

I thank you for taking the time to read my email.

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Update March 16th 2008:
Reply received from John Robbins:

I totally share your concerns.

You can go to the LBAMSPRAY.COM and CASSONLINE.ORG sites to get more informed and to pursue and share relevant links and downloads. People waking up is the bottom line, so any amount of sharing the info is key.

And I think this report is extremely important:

Harder New Zealand Report.
All the best,

John