Marin Agricultural Commissioner Stacy Carlsen has just played Judas in his county by negotiating a contract with the state that will give him nearly $150,000 for continuing to foist the ludicrous light brown apple moth (LBAM) eradication program on the community he is supposed to serve. If you live in Marin, you’ve already seen the [...]

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Many of you who have been working over the past couple of years to stop the pesticide poisoning of California families as a result of the CDFA’s LBAM ‘program’ will recall the petition that was signed by over 31,000 people urging that this assault on our health be stopped. Many of you are likewise aware [...]

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My friends, Mary Beth and Jim, of the Ecological Options Network recently published a phenomenal video which I saw for the first time tonight. If you want one more reason why Californians must defeat the LBAM spray program, you will find it in this video: I’m sure you heard what I did. Three times in [...]

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Have you seen the ads on TV? The little girl skipping through vineyards and orchards, only to be vaporized by the presence of bugs? The HungryPests.com campaign is one of the most ghoulish efforts I have ever seen made by the USDA/CDFA to frighten people and hide the truth about the health of our ecology [...]

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CDFA has now released their Draft EIR and is giving public notice of their plans for pursuing the LBAM. These unacceptable and utterly evil plans include use of the following poisons, all of which CDFA is ludicrously claiming will cause no harm to California: 3) Mating Disruption with LBAM-specific pheromones (using twist ties, ground application, [...]

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Tomorrow, the California Department of Food and Agriculture will be making public their Light Brown Apple Moth Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Report on their website. This afternoon, I listened to a telephone briefing regarding the release of this draft report. It was a listen-in-only call with the option for Q&A at the end. For those [...]

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Just a quick post in praise of

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Someone needs to replace the ignorance bushes growing in the yards of Berkeley Code Enforcement Officers with some trees of knowledge. As I write this article, Berkeley urban farmer Asa Dodsworth is being persecuted by Officers Maurice Norrise and Gregory Daniels for having fruit trees and vegetables in his home’s front yard. While every home [...]

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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me…or rather on the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors who have sent a letter to California’s Secretary of Agriculture, A.G. Kawamura, begging him to hurry up and help them douse the county in poison and pesticides as the latest step in the Light Brown [...]

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Press Release: NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: May 24th, 2009 Media Contacts: Yannick Phillips, Mothers Advocating for Children’s Health (MACH – Sonoma), (707) 933-0312 Debbie Friedman, Mothers of Marin Against the Spray (MOMAS), (415) 380-8578 Helen Kozoriz, Stop the Spray, (510) 336-0499 Paulina Borsook, Stop the Spray, (831) 429-8699 MOTHERS, FARMERS, AND SCIENTISTS CONVERGE TO [...]

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