State Asked to Rescind Report on Spraying Illnesses July 31, 2008 A group of 18 mayors and other elected officials today requested that the directors of three state agencies retract a report on 643 illness complaints filed after last fall’s aerial pesticide spraying for the light brown apple moth (LBAM). The letter notes that the [...]

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Greetings Readers! Do you have questions and concerns that you want to be included in the LBAM Environmental Impact Report draft? Now is the time to send them to CDFA’s Jim Rains. Deadline: August 19th 2008 Sending a real letter is best, but you may also send a fax or email, though it’s easier for [...]

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I was alerted by an acquaintance to an article published in an Oregon newspaper, The Bulletin, regarding Suterra’s potential plan to purchase 1500 acres of land in Bend, Oregon to build their new pesticide factory. I’m sorry I can’t link readers to the actual article – apparently you have to have a paid subscription to [...]

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My thanks to valued reader Mary Anne Gaskins for pointing me to this document on the health hazards of BT from Pesticide.org. After having been aerially sprayed with toxic pesticides in 2007 by the California Department of Food and Agriculture, hundreds of Central California families fell ill, 2 small children nearly died in the hospital [...]

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Special Town Hall Forum and Potluck Aerial Spray and Moth Eradication “It’s Not Over!” Update on a Remarkable Campaign Monday July 28 in San Rafael 6:00 pm Potluck Dinner 7:30 pm Town Hall Forum at First United Methodist Church 9 Ross Valley Drive, San Rafael Come for dinner then join leading activist Frank Egger and [...]

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Greetings Readers, We are still very much here, but have been trying hard to get a clear handle on what is going on right now the with LBAM program here in California. We are still under a major threat from the CDFA’s toxic and deadly plan to spray and coat 12 counties with pesticides and [...]

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Dear Readers, We’re still trying to get settled here, and I am trying to catch up on where we are all at with the LBAM spray program. This month, residents of much of the LBAM spray zone have another toxic assault to contend with that my friends at Don’t Spray California have alerted me to [...]

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Dear Readers, If you’ve been wondering about the silence over the past week here at Vegan Reader, please let me share with you that we’ve been moving house. For our family, this isn’t just a shift from one abode to another, but a change in our life that we’ve been working toward for several years. [...]

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