Supporting LBAM Spray = This

So threatened is the California Department of Agriculture by the 28 strong and still growing number of cities which have firmly resolved against the aerial spraying of the pesticide CheckMate on human beings that they have determined to send their employees into the Central Valley to squeeze pro-spray resolutions out of California farming communities.

Just days ago, CDFA closeted themselves with members of the City of Reedley, filled the farmers’ heads with lies, doubtless threatened them with costly quarantines, and managed to extract from them a document which actually supports enforced spraying of infants, children, men and women with deadly biochemicals.

CheckMate has already sickened hundreds of families on the coast. It has killed hundreds of wild birds, including endangered species. It caused the near-death of an infant who was rushed to the hospital with respiratory failure after he inhaled the carcinogenic, mutagenic particulate pollution of which the spray is compounded. How do I know this is true? Many of the sickened people are frequent readers of this blog. They are telling the truth about the severe and, in many cases, lasting damage caused to their health by the aerial spraying of pesticides over their cities.

As the above graphic illustrates, any Central Valley farmer who supports a resolution to spray his neighbors on the coast is supporting an aerial attack on living human beings. This is a moral choice farmers and their cities will be faced with when CDFA’s henchmen come to town.

CDFA will tell the same lies to farmers that they have told to people throughout the Monterey Bay region and the San Francisco Bay Area: that CheckMate is harmless, that the light brown apple moth will devastate agriculture. CheckMate has caused disastrous human illness, but the light brown apple moth has done zero damage to agriculture despite having lived here anywhere from as long as ten to fifty years. It does minimal cosmetic damage to leaves. It will not destroy food, and CDFA is harming farmers by placing them under quarantines that are completely unsupported by the findings of modern science. The light brown apple moth needs to be declassified to reflect its negligible status in the State of California.

CDFA will go from town to town, deceiving and frightening farmers. Farmers will be pressured to sign resolutions supporting the aerial spraying – not of their own communities – but of neighboring communities on the Central Coast where the LBAM lives. Indeed, it is unlikely that the LBAM would ever even make it to the Central Valley because it requires a cool, moist climate to live in. CDFA will bully and pressure farmers into passing resolutions that support an act of potential genocide on their neighbors.

Our doctors and independent scientists have stepped forward one by one to explain that chronic exposure to the spray compound will result in human deaths.

Already, the name of the City of Reedley has become an infamous one up and down the California coast for choosing to support this deadly attack on their neighbors. They were lied to by CDFA’s agents in a closed-door meeting, and walked out of that meeting supporting CDFA’s value system which decrees that profits are of greater value than human life. We are still hoping that Reedley will get fighting mad over having been lied to and rewrite their ill-advised resolution which is the only one in the whole state supporting this violation of human rights.

Whether or not the moth represents a threat to crops is not the issue here. The real issue here is the utter evil of subjecting human beings to forced inhalation of deadly biochemicals. There is no nice way to put this. And there is no way for farmers, in good conscience, to resolve that their profits are of more importance than the right of human beings not to be subjected to biochemical assault without consent.

CDFA is violating over 30 laws and globally upheld human rights standards by performing this horrific experiment on the families of the Central Coast. Central Coast families would never support any agency doing this horrific thing to Central Valley families.

Farmers must educate themselves and understand that they are about to be barraged with cunningly crafted threats and lies in the mouths of CDFA and USDA agents. Central Valley farmers must band together, as the people of the coast have done, to confront CDFA with a united stance of refusal to be made party to an aerial assault on innocent human beings.

Should farmers choose to support the spray, they will be condemning infants, mothers, elders, infirm people and other Californians to emergency hospital visits, grievous short term and chronic illness, and after repeat sprayings, death, according to our doctors. Let there be no prize, no profit that would ever induce a humane American to endorse such ruination of human lives.

Say no to CDFA’s unwarranted, barbaric plans. Get your community to resolve against LBAM spray.

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