Dear Audubon Members, I’m a wild bird illustrator and the author of my county’s birding blog – Birding Sonoma County. I am writing to you today to urge you to investigate a devastating threat to California’s already-reduced wild bird populations. In the fall of 2007, the California Department of Food and Agriculture aerially sprayed the [...]

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We’ve been keeping track of Ag. Secretary A.G. Kawamura’s mounting total of lies to the public. Here’s his latest intentionally deceptive statement: “I urge all Bay Area families to remember this eradication is based on the best science; a decade of worldwide aerial pheromone applications shows no indication of human health threats and I assure [...]

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Hats off to the JAM Band for creating this terrific Anti-Spray Video. It was a really nice surprise to see some Vegan Reader images used in this very well-made video. We are so glad that people are using these images in so many creative ways. I first heard this catchy little tune, There Ain’t No [...]

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My kind readers sent such lovely get-well notes 2 weeks ago when the vineyard next door put me in the emergency hospital as they started their annual bi-monthly spraying of their crop. Well, here we go again. My husband and I had worked all day and night and had sat down for an hour of [...]

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CONTACT: San Franciscans Concerned About the Spray Kelly McMenimen — 415-673-6783 SAN FRANCISCO TOWN HALL ON APPLE MOTH AERIAL SPRAY – GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE WALK ANNOUNCED, SPEAKER PELOSI WEIGHS IN Expert Panel Says Aerial Spraying of Pesticides over San Francisco Not Safe, Not Effective, Not Necessary San Francisco — A panel of scientists and other [...]

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Our friends at the Ecological Options Network and California Alliance to Stop the Spray have created a wonderful, informative Public Service Announcement video which they have the opportunity to have shown in movie theaters. This will reach an audience of 2 million people. They are asking for donations to make this possible. Click here to [...]

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Hats off to CBS for this must-watch interview of Dennis Knepp and Jeff Haferman explaining the State’s egregious miscalculation of the deadly PM10 in Checkmate aerial spray. Watch the video I’ve linked to and you will not only hear Knepp and Haferman explain the shoddy ‘science’ CDFA is guilty of in regards to their wrong [...]

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Sonoma City Council members voted 4-1 Wednesday to pass a resolution opposing aerial spraying to eradicate the light brown apple moth. Read the Press Democrat Story Here. I will make the actual resolution available here when I can find a copy of it. In the meantime, deepest thanks to Councilman Ken Brown for introducing the [...]

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Sometimes, life is poetic in its demonstrations of simple lessons. Every summer and winter, our home is visited by ants. They come in two varieties, for which we have common names. 1) Sugar ants – these are the larger, common ants you likely know best. 2) Oil ants – these are the tiny, tiny ants [...]

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As a vegan, a birder, and a woman who holds our animal friends in sincere reverence, animal testing is abhorrent to me. It’s an unforgivable evil that tortures innocent creatures and dehumanizes the torturer, inflicting him with a woeful, desensitized outlook on pain and suffering. Much like slavery, it turns the master into a monster. [...]

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