As we discussed in an earlier post, CDFA’s toxic twist ties present a serious and deadly threat to our diminishing wild bird populations.
CDFA will put be festooning trees and fences with 250 toxic twist ties per acre of land. Trees and fences – the very places your cat explores and plays.
It is inevitable that cats will discover and investigate the twist ties, playing with them, tasting them and getting the severe irritant on the ties into their eyes, skin and mouths. When animals are injured by toxins, they are more vulnerable to predation, being hit by cars, and other fatal dangers.
We urge you not to feel safe if aerial spraying isn’t happening in your area. San Jose, Santa Barbara and Sonoma are just three towns where these chemical-soaked twist ties are likely to appear within the next couple of weeks. CDFA’s needless, reckless ground-based actions violate your private property by means of trespass, and put your children, your cat, wild birds, squirrels and everything that depends on clean drinking water at terrible, unacceptable risk for chemical injury, chronic disease and death.
Read more about the toxicity of CDFAs ground-based LBAM activities here.
Coming soon – a map of California regions threatened with ground-based chemical, pesticide assault.
2 users commented in " Toxic LBAM Twist Ties, Trees and Your Cat "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a Trackbacki have no idea how ou present such beautiful graphics since i can barely construct an email, but this is another eye catching and timely warning.
if people love their cats as much as i love my dog, they will be campaigning nonstop to prevent these twist ties, which may seem at first to be harmless but are not.
i am hoping that organic methods will win out, since natural predators will be a much better solution.
how stupid that the methods of the chemical people would wipe out the natural predators.
Thank you Solstice,
I really hope people will take the twist ties seriously. They are putting them up in San Jose this week. I feel so sorry for that whole city. It’s just awful.
Yes, CDFA’s entire approach to agriculture is backward. Rather than spending money on caring for the land, interplanting diverse flora, attracting important fauna, they approach the earth with the 1950′s mentality of spraying everything with poison. As though this will have a good outcome!
It’s like trying to tell 3-year-olds not to touch the stove. You have to speak to CDFA as though they are infants, while the rest of the world seems able to quickly assimilate the message that poisoning one’s self is a mad idea.
Keep fighting, Solstice.
Mim
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