I am documenting here the accusations that have been made against the State by some of California’s most eminent doctors and scientists. These words must reach the ears of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the California Department of Agriculture, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment and all other parties complicit in the attempted poisoning of millions of innocent Californians with the LBAM pesticide product, Checkmate.

Dr James Carey, Professor of Entomology, UC Davis and former CDFA panelist

This is an experiment.

Dr. Dennis Knepp, PhD engineering physics, radar communications, statistician

CDFA will double the PM10 in the air each time they spray. Half the particles in this concoction are smaller than 9.8 microns. There was no CDFA testing for inhalation (of the PM10 particles). They have to measure the amount that’s deposited in the air we breathe. There were no inhalation tests. I think that’s what you call an experiment.

Particulate matter is of greatest concern to the elderly and children and people who are the most vulnerable. It gets into the lungs and can cause cardiovascular problems and pneumonia. Let’s say they’re going to spray 5 million people and the spray is going to stay in the air for 270 days each year.
That’s a lot of exposure to PM10. They (CDFA) are going to double the amount of PM10 in the air. Given 9 months of exposure for 5 million people, 141 to 210 people will die due to the 9 months’ exposure. That’s a solid number based on years of scientific studies published in peer review papers from Johns Hopkins University and the Harvard School of Medicine.

If someone were actually murdering that number of people, we would get very concerned and I do believe that’s what the State and Governor Schwarzenegger and planning to do. They would like to do this.

Dr. Larry Rose, Retired Senior Public Medical Officer for Cal-OSHA, Occupational Environmental Medicine Practitioner, UCSF

I reviewed the inerts (ingredients in Checkmate). They’re not just irritants. They’re also a real concern for hormone disruption – estrogenic activity which would affect the risk for many diseases. They also are mutagens which would attack your chromosomes, are genotoxic, and would affect your immune system and risk for cancer, and two of them are suspected carcinogens and cause cancer.

When these microparticles lodge in your lungs and go deep and stay there, you are going to have what we call systemic circulation to all of your vital organs.

The microcapsules are designed to persist for 30 days and I’ve never seen that before in a pesticide. I did research on persistence when I was getting my masters degree in toxicology. One of the first things you look at in pesticides is ‘when can you allow people to go back into the fields after they’ve been sprayed?’ Now, in this case, they are spraying it right on top of people!

I read the 643 reports that Mike Lynberg put together in Monterey. The reactions weren’t just upper-respiratory; they were eye, nose, throat, skin, gastrointestinal and neurological reactions and none of it was adequately followed up on by the Department of Public Health Services and OEHHA. They did no systematic interviews of the people or their primary health providers.

They (the State) use terms like ‘this is stress or people are overly-upset’ and that’s ridiculous. This is no way to treat people who are having serious health reactions. To say they’re going to do some toxicology studies and then it will be okay is ridiculous. They have to, they must, if they take any degree of responsibility at all, they must do follow-ups on all of the people who had reactions and it must be done in a systematic, formal epidemiologic fashion. All plans should be stopped until this is done. I don’t know who is making these decisions and why, but they are very suspect.

The above experts have stepped forward, voluntarily, in an attempt to combat the incorrect and deceitful information that has been authored by the State and promulgated by Governor Schwarzenegger. The pesticide and its poly-urea microcapsule are not safe, and are likely to cause hundreds of deaths. The State must take the 643 health complaints seriously and authorize a real, systematic study of the families who have been damaged by the 2007 spraying. Schwarzenegger’s 6-pack toxicology test is being cited as ridiculous and ineffective.

Vegan Reader joins the people of California in demanding that an independent (non-governmental) board of experts like Knepp, Carey and Rose be part of the review process. The CDFA and OEHHA have lost all credibility and the public has no reason to be confident in any findings they might publish. We insist upon independent, third-party review. As our doctors say, lives are at stake.

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Update
I’m going to keep adding testimony from doctors here.

Dr. Elisa Song, Pediatrician, SF Bay Area

Several illnesses can be linked to exposure to environmental toxins, including asthma, autoimmune illness and autism. And the rates of chronic illnesses in children are disturbingly on the rise. We know children got sick during the spraying last fall, and one 12-month-old boy who nearly died from respiratory arrest and suffered a subsequent attack some weeks later. That boy was fortunate to receive prompt, excellent medical care. Children without health insurance in poor areas of our cities may not be so lucky. A public health system which is already severely strained in most counties will suffer from this increased burden. And the children in my practice, already suffering from asthma and chronic illnesses. will be even more vulnerable to the effects of the airborne spray.

If there is even a plausible doubt that Checkmate could have neurodevelopmental and health effects on our most vulnerable populations, then why would we even consider that risk to our children’s future?

Read Dr. Song’s Complete Testimony Here

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Update:
Dr. Russell Blaylock, M.D., Neurosurgeon, Author

There’s a couple of tricks, as I look through some of the material that was put out by the health and ag. departments of California. Number one, they only talk about acute toxicity. This is one the great fallacies – talking only about acute toxicity. They study it for a few days to a week or two and then cut off the study. You’re going to miss a lot of chronic and sub-acute reactions.

The real damaging effect occurs months or years later – not acutely. And, of course, they can write these people off because the longer from the time of your exposure, then they can blame it on other things. The second trick they use is that they say they inform physicians to be on the lookout for effects of this product. All they’re going to have them looking out for is skin reactions and eye reactions. Then, if a doctor sees someone coming in with severe pulmonary problems or sinusitis or neurological problems such as seizures or difficulty thinking, that’s not on the list to look for, so they’ll discount it. So all of those people will be excluded from the final tally of who was affected by this spraying. They do that frequently.

EPA does not permit long term human studies of any type of pestide, which relieves them of any obligation to hear complaints of people who say, “Well a month later, my health has deteriorated.” And they say, “Well, we don’t do long term studies, so we’re not going to record it.”

Once these (health) complications begin to arise, you can expect a litany of lies. They will bring forth their experts to assure you that this has nothing to do with their spraying technique or the chemical they used. The lies will begin to flow like lava out of a volcano. Prepare yourself for that.

They’re essentially medicating and exposing people to toxins against their will.

Listen to a ringing, no-nonsense interview with Dr. Russel Blaylock