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 of respiratory failure and heart failure, hundreds of sea birds washed up dead on the beaches and songbirds, rabbits, cats, dogs and bees died.

If you’d think that the consequences of this act of destruction would be trials and sentencing for the responsible parties, think again. Not only has the CDFA not been charged with causing sickness and death to countless living beings, they are currently rolling right along with ever new plans to spray ever-widening areas of the state with further pesticides and toxic chemicals. Their plan now encompasses 12 counties and millions and millions of people.

Today, I want to focus on just one of the substances CDFA intends to use in their attack on the harmless Light Brown Apple Moth – you will quickly see that the release of this substance into our habitat is, indeed, an attack on the family of man.

BT – Bacillus Thuringiensis Kurstaki (Btk) And Its Threat To You

For complete details, and for your own protection, I urge you to read the full article I linked to in the opening of this post. Here, I will offer a summary of the facts:

  • BT (also called BTK) is a bacteria and a pesticide
  • BT is part of a family of dangerous bacteria which includes Bacillus cereus which causes food poisoning and Bacillus anthracis which causes anthrax.
  • BT is aerially sprayed, meaning the bacteria fills the air and contaminates everything with which it comes into contact – people, animals, water, food and land
  • BT is marketed to chemically-addicted industries as a way to kill the caterpillars of butterflies and moths
  • When caterpillars eat leaves that have been coated with this insidious pesticide, it releases a poison called an ‘endotoxin’ in their digestive system. This poison kills the caterpillars
  • As with nearly everything being sprayed by the CDFA, no meaningful studies have been done on the chronic effects of this substance on human beings. As with nearly everything else, the product has been marketed and accepted as ‘safe’ without proof.
  • In one of the few studies conducted, it was discovered that BT bacteria spores were present in the lungs and intestines of farmworkers who had been applying BT – in other words, they were infected with this bacteria.
  • People absorb BT via breathing it into their lungs or eating food that has been contaminated with it
  • One of the main documented effects of BT on human beings is a severe diarrhea associated with food poisoning (remember, BT is almost indistinguishable from the bacteria which is notorious for causing food poisoning)
  • People exposed to BT are in danger of developing a disastrous bacterial infection which may literally destroy their autoimmune systems – giving them any of the many autoimmune diseases which are being slated as the scourge of modern man.

That’s the quick rundown, based upon my understanding of the substance CDFA intends to spray on farming communities and forested areas across the state of California.

To you and to me, it seems very obvious that one wouldn’t spray people or food with a bacteria which is linked to food poisoning. To you and to me, it’s a no-brainer that it should be illegal to introduce dangerous bacteria into the habitat and watershed of American citizens. Unfortunately, CDFA doesn’t see it this way and is allowed, by law, to spray you and your family with bacteria. Chemical manufacturers and pesticide addicts are allowed to refer to the bacteria as ‘safe’ and our government then allows them to expose millions of innocent, free citizens to this grotesque substance without any threat of punishment.

If a foreign power were to arrive in California with airplane and backpack spray machines, coating the people with bacteria, I imagine that would be seen as an attack. But when these attacks are instigated by ‘our government’ and ‘corporations’, it would seem they have total immunity from the constitutional law which fully protects Californians’ right to safety.

It’s madness. It’s injustice. And, the people of California are busily at work right now forming plans to fight the CDFA’s endangerment of human health and to force government and corporations to live by the same laws that we do.