When the world slows down every evening and our neighborhood goes to bed, our porch light starts burning the midnight oil, a lone beacon in a blissfully dark and quiet rural scene. Running our company involves a lot of night work, and my husband and I have become students of the nighttime planet that so [...]

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Many of the millions of Californians being threatened with aerial pesticide application over their bodies and homes in the Light Brown Apple Moth scandal are thinking about the difference between organic and conventional farming for the first time in their lives. While the definition of organic is in danger of being watered down by agencies [...]

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It’s so good to know that while my health has been making me take a little rest, friends have been very busy. Janis and Mike DeLay have published LBAM Call To Action – a new website featuring invaluable lists of contacts. Newspapers, chambers of commerce, service groups and agencies are all listed. The basic concept [...]

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Dear Valued Readers, Just a note, in case you’ve been wondering where I am, to let you know that my health has not been good this past week…par for the course when living with autoimmune troubles! I haven’t been posting as much as I’d like, but I do have something really important to post coming [...]

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One of the great ironies to me in the midst of California’s greatest-ever public health crisis is hearing officials from the California Department of Food and Agriculture and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment grudgingly admit that people with pre-existing health conditions may be harmed by the toxic chemicals being employed in the LBAM [...]

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I was forwarded a round robin email regarding the Sonoma meeting which I’ll excerpt here: Last night in Sonoma we had 2 members of the CDFA, Robert Dowell and another gentleman (who refused to give me his name), a member of OESHA, the Sonoma County Ag. Commissioner as well as 5 others from the Sonoma [...]

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Yesterday, hundreds marched across the Golden Gate Bridge in protest of the proposed and illegal spraying of human beings with aerial chemicals which experts say will destroy human health. LBAMSpray.com has some great photos. The bridge march was a bright idea. Not only did it do much to galvanize the efforts of Bay Area families [...]

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What: CDFA is holding a meeting in Sonoma prior to covering the Arnold Drive portion of the valley with thousands of toxic twist ties. Where & When: June 2nd, 5:30 PM at Flowery Elementary School which is located at 17600 Sonoma Hwy Sonoma. CA 95476 It is especially horrific to me that this meeting is [...]

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Dr. James Carey and two of his respected Davis colleagues have written an official letter to the head of the USDA, requesting that he urge CDFA’s A.G. Kawamura to revisit his plan to eradicate the Light Brown Apple Moth. These men of science point out that there is no evidence that the LBAM presents any [...]

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New Study Examines LBAM Spray Ingredients That Could be Stronger Endocrine Disruptors Than Bisphenol-A The Health Hazards of Particles, Toxins, Inflammatory Cascades and Genomic Predisposition May 29, 2008 – San Francisco, California. New study of the ingredients of the Checkmate LBAM-F spray and the capsules used for its delivery raises public health safety issues that [...]

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