If you’ve come here looking for further information regarding the Sonoma County Crop Quarantine and the light brown apple moth, this article aims to serve as your crash course in understanding the issue.
In reading the following articles and watching the following videos, you may find it hard to believe that so much chaos, corruption and suffering could possibly center on a harmless insect which has done zero damage in the state of California, despite living here for decades.
The LBAM story includes a California governor on the take from the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) and major pesticide manufacturers. It involves hundreds of families falling ill and rushing children to ERs after being sprayed as part of the so-called LBAM ‘eradication’ program. It involves doctors, scientists and conscientious politicians stepping forward to demand that CDFA stop deceiving the public and poisoning human beings. It involves beaches covered with dead birds and whole towns devoid of birdsong. All because of a little moth, a moth that has harmed nothing.
Because both the CDFA and farmers threatened with quarantine will undoubtedly be approaching the presence of a couple of light brown apple moths in Sonoma County with a barrage of pesticides, it is very important for you to understand what you are up against. Over the past year, Vegan Reader has written and linked to hundreds of pieces regarding the LBAM issue and we have created the following list of links to must-read and must-watch documentation of the LBAM story in California:
LBAM Science
Dr. Daniel Harder’s Report On The Harmlessness of LBAM in New Zealand
U.C. Davis Scientists Ask USDA To Halt Eradication Program
Video: Entomologist James Cary explains that LBAM Eradication is Not Possible
Video: Pheromone-Pesticide Creator Says, ‘Don’t Spray Me.’
CBS Interview: Scientists Explain Deadly PM10 in Moth Spray
Health and People
Doctors Accuse State of Experimentation, Fatal Damage
Dr. Rose’s Complete Toxicity and Health Effects of LBAM Spray Report
Dr. Ann. M. Haiden’s Report On Checkmate Health Harms
What Does Pesticide Poisoning Feel Like? LBAM Spray Preparedness.
LBAM Checkmate Spray, Agent Orange and Women’s Health
Agricultural Chemicals and Chronic Illness
Environment and Human Rights Advisory Document
Video: Documentary Film on LBAM Spraying of Central California
Video: Citizen Account of Human Health Damages From LBAM Spray
Video: Wilcox Family Account of Damage to their Infant Son from LBAM Spray
Video: Following the money behind LBAM Spray Program
Video: Extensive Account of Health Damages in Central Coast Region of California
LBAM – The International Connection
In Memoriam: LBAM Spray Victims
Wildlife and Pets
Roy Upton’s final report on the deaths of wildlife and pets
Roy Upton’s final report on damage to honeybees
Facts about permethrin and wildlife
8 Important Facts You Need to Know
1. In 2007, CDFA sprayed Central California with pheromone-pesticides from airplanes, causing hundreds of families to fall ill, cutting school attendance in half, killing hundreds of birds, wild animals, honeybees and pets.
2. CDFA then intended to increase their aerial spraying area to include all of the SF Bay Area. This action was stopped as a result of outraged citizen protest. CDFA announced that it would no longer spray cities, but would spray so-called ‘rural’ areas. This distinction has never been made clear to the public, and many of us live in rural areas.
3. CDFA’s quarantine of Sonoma County is simply their latest tactic to give their ‘eradication’ efforts a legitimate appearance. As independent scientists have repeatedly proved, the light brown apple moth has done zero damage in California and is considered a minor pest everywhere else in the world. Because CDFA wishes to continue to receive millions of dollars of funding for their ‘eradication’ program, they have stooped to spraying human beings with pesticides and quarantining innocent farmers, thereby depriving them of their livelihoods.
4. The types of pesticide products which may be used in Sonoma County because of the presence of the harmless light brown apple moth may include toxic twist ties, chemical splats, sprays, and the dispersal of millions of pesticide-coated moths. Do not be fooled by the industry double talk you will hear about ‘pheromones’. The synthetic products used in agriculture, which are termed ‘pheromones’, are not naturally-occurring substances. They are lab chemicals, and the product sprayed on the families of Central California in 2007 was a registered pesticide, despite being called a ‘pheromone product’. Pheromone-pesticides are pesticides. All products being used by CDFA surrounding LBAM are frighteningly toxic to human beings.
5. Because of the quarantine being enforced on them, Sonoma County’s farmers and alcohol growers may decide to further drench their fields in pesticides. We are already living in the most pesticide-ridden state in the country, and to have the toxic burden increased in Sonoma County because of the presence of a harmless insect is not acceptable.
6. Do not expect accurate or truthful coverage of the LBAM issue in your local news. Unfortunately, recent history has demonstrated that most of our news sources do not understand the importance of investigative reporting, and are happy to simply reprint the statements given to them by agricultural officials. To find accurate news, we would suggest that you Google the issues and make up your own mind from independently-written and thoroughly researched sources. YouTube.com is another excellent resource for citizen documentation of local issues. Too often, Sonoma County’s news sources merely serve as lap dogs to the local alcohol industry, which is so heavily tied to the pesticide industry that it is frequently impossible to get to the truth about agricultural matters and human and environmental health damages.
7. Expect agricultural officials to lie. Their jobs hinge upon finding opportunities to get federal and state funding for projects like the LBAM ‘eradication’ program. California Ag Secretary A.G. Kawamura has been caught on film lying to everyone from CBS reporters to frantic mothers. It is important to understand that CDFA has been engaged in scores of so-called ‘eradication’ programs during the past half century, and that, in all of this time, they have succeeded in eradicating only one single pest. Despite aerial spraying, despite ground spraying, despite twist ties and countless other toxic tools employed, plus billions and billions of dollars spent, all but one of the insects on CDFA’s list remain very much alive in California.
8. Don’t take our word for it. We are just one publication. Because of our study of this issue, and the acquaintances we have formed with citizens who have been abused by CDFA, we are firmly convinced that the LBAM program is nothing more than a fraud. But, our main hope is that you will research this issue for yourself so that you can understand how state and federal agencies are acting in your corner of the world and the effect this is having on your family’s health. Here are some suggested resources for further reading:
10 users commented in " LBAM Crop Quarantine, Sonoma County – The Huge Lie "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackGreat information. These people are conducting experiments on the public at large and it needs to be stopped.
Thank and Cheers to you
Welcome Zucchini Breath,
Yes, unfortunately a large segment of the public, doctors and scientists have had to conclude that Federal and State agencies are conducting experiments on human beings in violation of the Geneva Convention. It’s unacceptable, unconstitutional and illegal.
Thanks for stopping by.
with all his evidence of their criminality one wonders how they could continue.
lets be sure they dont start sending out transgenic insects to further destroy things.
what a wonderful and thorough article. they are talking about testing the irradiated moths in napa because the wine people are all excited about it. new moths found in rp, cotati, healdsburg, petaluma. this used to be my home.
they have already decided sonoma county’s problem can’t be treated with twist ties alone. what is left out a lot of the time is that with irradiated moths comes truck fogging and permethrin painting, splat, goop and other interesting things.
please see this video to get an idea of what the cdfa does after they tell you that you can refuse to have your property sprayed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgR4Qlhv1X4&feature=channel_page
more info on what napa and sonoma have agreed to:
http://forum.stopthespray.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3209
Donna!
It’s so good to see you here. Thank you so much for the links. I am absolutely appalled that anyone would call this ‘a great day’ for Napa.
I am so sorry for the people in Ojai. We know exactly what they are going through. Thank you for coming by.
Mim
hi mim,
i came by to check and see if you knew the latest. it is disheartening to read about people who seem genuinely excited about this! targeting a place i called home. hope you are well, considering everything.
donna
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090505/ARTICLES/905059888/1350?Title=Apple-moth-coalition-urges-alternatives-to-quarantine
Hi Mim,
I thought I’d check in and see how you’re doing. I didn’t know about Sonoma county and pending spray, or did it happen? I was thinking of driving north and I’d hate to get sick like the time my poor timing had me in Monterey for the light brown apple moth pesticide spray.
Donna
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090505/ARTICLES/905059888/1350?Title=Apple-moth-coalition-urges-alternatives-to-quarantine
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