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Saying it's the safest way isn't saying much.<div>Spraying for a pest that has not had ANY impact on crops yet is overkill. We could learn a lot from NZ and AussieLand who (I've heard on KPFA) deal with this pest very well.</div><div>Andi</div><div><br><div><html>On Apr 26, 2008, at 8:48 PM, Tian Harter wrote:</html><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------- Original Message --------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Fwd: Re: Okay, so what is your official take on spraying</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">pheromones to get rid od the moths?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:21:27 -0700 (PDT)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Caroline Yacoub</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Tian Harter <<a href="mailto:tnharter@aceweb.com">tnharter@aceweb.com</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Could you please post this? I /get/ the discussion items, but I don't</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">know how to add one. My daughter is a former tree farmer, formerly</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">worked for the state dept of agriculture, currently works for Fish and</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Game, and is the Greenest person I know.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Note: forwarded message attached.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Tian</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://tian.greens.org">http://tian.greens.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">4/25: I inaugurated my new brown XXL shirt made in LA that says "the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">role of the revolutionary artist is to make revolution irresistible!"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">by wearing it in SF's Critical Mass Ride. The weather was just right.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">My take on this is:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1. The pheremone is, from a public health perspective, the SAFEST way to deal with this internationally quarantinable pest.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">2. My (old) department MUST do something about this pest because of international quarantines.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">3.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>My department was in error in not holding public comment meetings with members of the community including farmers, academics, health-concerned citizens in ADVANCE of coming up with a plan.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If people are clear that some action must be done, that insecticides are on the table, but alternatives are being prioritized, etc. you are much less likely to have this kind of response.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I have been meaning to write to my old IPM professor at UCSC to see if anyone from my department contacted her or her coworkers to serve on a public advisory panel.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If not, this was a mistake.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">4. I don't think we yet know what the insect's capacity is to physically disrupt California's agriculture as a pestiferous insect.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Discovery of LBAM was done by an ameteur entomologist.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Farmers had not been bringing in damaged plants looking for a solution.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>However, because it puts commodities under quarantine (they cannot be moved out of the area), it causes economic damage to farmers.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This is enough to warrant action. Our department has probably been working with the international community to clarify this insects' capacity to do damage in other regions of the world (it was a big problem in New Zealand and Australia); survey for plant damage from the moth in the affected regions, and reform regulations if necessary.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Haven't been privvy to much of the goings on myself.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">In essence, it is a necessary evil; which could have been performed better--and ideally should have been approached a little more slowly and with more regards for sentiment than science and regulation.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I disagree with the Green opposition to this work.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-Rosie</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Caroline Yacoub <<a href="mailto:carolineyacoub@att.net">carolineyacoub@att.net</a>> wrote:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Note: forwarded message attached.Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:06:25 -0700 (PDT)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>From: "Drew Johnson" <<a href="mailto:JamBoi@Greens.org">JamBoi@Greens.org</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>To: <a href="mailto:cal-forum@cagreens.org">cal-forum@cagreens.org</a>,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org">sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Green Party elected officials oppose state aerial</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>spraying plan</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>News Advisory</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>THE GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA <a href="http://www.cagreens.org">www.cagreens.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, April 22, 2008</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Contact: Susan King, spokesperson, 415.823-5524 <a href="mailto:sking@cagreens.org">sking@cagreens.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Dr. Robert Vizzard, spokesperson, 916.206 8953,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:rvizzard@cagreens.org">rvizzard@cagreens.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Daniel Brezenoff, spokesperson, 310.422-2211</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:dbrezenoff@cagreens.org">dbrezenoff@cagreens.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Cres Vellucci, GPCA press secretary, 916.996-9170</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:cvellucci@cagreens.org">cvellucci@cagreens.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>EARTH DAY: Green Party elected supervisor, mayor,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>city councilor, lead battle opposing $74 million state</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>plan to spray pesticides to kill Light Brown Apple Moth</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>BERKELEY, Ca. (April 22, 2008) – Green Party elected officials in Bay Area</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>cities are helping oppose a $74 million plan by the California Department</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) to conduct aerial spraying of a pheromone</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>pesticide to eradicate the Light Brown Apple Moth, scheduled to start this</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>summer.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Greens have authored resolutions against the spray and are participating in</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>lawsuits against it. More than 30 cities have now officially opposed the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>spraying that Greens describe as "a hazard to human health."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>San Francisco Supervisor and Green Ross Mirkarimi – who described the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>spraying as a "neutron bomb effect" – was applauded when he introduced a</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>resolution opposing the spraying campaign, which passed unanimously last</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>week at the SF Board of Supervisors meeting.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Mirkarimi's San Francisco resolution calls for a long-term study by the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>state of the health and environmental impacts of the spraying already</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>conducted in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties in 2007 in which over 600</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>residents reported adverse health outcomes, and support for state</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>legislation requiring the consent of residents before any aerial spraying.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In Berkeley, District 4 City Councilmember Dona Spring, a Green, authored a</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>resolution against the spray campaign and backed a lawsuit. "We've got</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>expert testimony that it would pose a hazard to human health so it's going</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to be done over some dead bodies," Spring said.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And Richmond Mayor and Green Party member Gayle McLaughlin co-sponsored a</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>resolution against the spray for the City of Richmond, calling it</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"expensive and ineffective." In an interview she stated, "It's very clear</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>there are many other ways to address this."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Green Party's philosophy of local control and grassroots democracy may</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>help resolve the spray controversy in favor of local public health</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>officials, who have expressed concern and recommend using other methods.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Public Health Directors in Alameda County and Santa Cruz County have even</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>posted letters to state officials calling for consideration of different</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and less toxic alternatives. However, state health officials believe the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>spray is safe, and are willing to put profits over public health, even over</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>protest from other public health officials.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>-30-</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>_______________________________________________</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>sosfbay-discuss mailing list</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org">sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss">http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 35px; text-indent: -35px; font: normal normal normal 11px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 13px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 35px; text-indent: -35px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica">Rosie Yacoub <<a href="mailto:rayacoub@yahoo.com">rayacoub@yahoo.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 31px; text-indent: -31px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica">April 25, 2008 3:47:55 PM PDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 21px; text-indent: -21px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica">Caroline Yacoub <<a href="mailto:carolineyacoub@att.net">carolineyacoub@att.net</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 47px; text-indent: -47px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: Okay, so what is your official take on spraying pheromones to get rid od the moths?</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <div>My take on this is:</div> <div>1. The pheremone is, from a public health perspective, the SAFEST way to deal with this internationally quarantinable pest.</div> <div> </div> <div>2. My (old) department MUST do something about this pest because of international quarantines.</div> <div> </div> <div>3. My department was in error in not holding public comment meetings with members of the community including farmers, academics, health-concerned citizens in ADVANCE of coming up with a plan. If people are clear that some action must be done, that insecticides are on the table, but alternatives are being prioritized, etc. you are much less likely to have this kind of response. I have been meaning to write to my old IPM professor at UCSC to see if anyone from my department contacted her or her coworkers to serve on a public advisory panel. If not, this was a mistake.</div> <div> </div> <div>4. I don't think we yet know what the insect's capacity is to physically disrupt California's agriculture as a pestiferous insect. Discovery of LBAM was done by an ameteur entomologist. Farmers had not been bringing in damaged plants looking for a solution. However, because it puts commodities under quarantine (they cannot be moved out of the area), it causes economic damage to farmers. This is enough to warrant action. Our department has probably been working with the international community to clarify this insects' capacity to do damage in other regions of the world (it was a big problem in New Zealand and Australia); survey for plant damage from the moth in the affected regions, and reform regulations if necessary. Haven't been privvy to much of the goings on myself.</div> <div> </div> <div>In essence, it is a necessary evil; which could have been performed better--and ideally should have been approached a little more slowly and with more regards for sentiment than science and regulation. I disagree with the Green opposition to this work.</div> <div>-Rosie</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div><br><br><b><i>Caroline Yacoub <<a href="mailto:carolineyacoub@att.net">carolineyacoub@att.net</a>></i></b> wrote:</div> <blockquote class="replbq" style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><br><br>Note: forwarded message attached.Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:06:25 -0700 (PDT)<br>From: "Drew Johnson" <<a href="mailto:JamBoi@Greens.org">JamBoi@Greens.org</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:cal-forum@cagreens.org">cal-forum@cagreens.org</a>,<br><a href="mailto:sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org">sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org</a><br>Subject: [Sosfbay-discuss] Green Party elected officials oppose state aerial<br>spraying plan<br><br>News Advisory<br>THE GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA www.cagreens.org<br><br>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br>Tuesday, April 22, 2008<br>Contact: Susan King, spokesperson, 415.823-5524 sking@cagreens.org<br>Dr. Robert Vizzard, spokesperson, 916.206 8953,<br>rvizzard@cagreens.org<br>Daniel Brezenoff, spokesperson, 310.422-2211<br>dbrezenoff@cagreens.org<br>Cres Vellucci, GPCA press secretary, 916.996-9170<br>cvellucci@cagreens.org<br><br>EARTH DAY: Green Party elected supervisor, mayor,<br>city councilor, lead battle opposing $74 million state<br>plan to spray pesticides to kill Light Brown Apple Moth<br><br>BERKELEY, Ca. (April 22, 2008) – Green Party elected officials in Bay Area<br>cities are helping oppose a $74 million plan by the California Department<br>of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) to conduct aerial spraying of a pheromone<br>pesticide to eradicate the Light Brown Apple Moth, scheduled to start this<br>summer.<br><br>Greens have authored resolutions against the spray and are participating in<br>lawsuits against it. More than 30 cities have now officially opposed the<br>spraying that Greens describe as "a hazard to human health."<br><br>San Francisco Supervisor and Green Ross Mirkarimi – who described the<br>spraying as a "neutron bomb effect" – was applauded when he introduced a<br>resolution opposing the spraying campaign, which passed unanimously last<br>week at the SF Board of Supervisors meeting.<br><br>Mirkarimi's San Francisco resolution calls for a long-term study by the<br>state of the health and environmental impacts of the spraying already<br>conducted in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties in 2007 in which over 600<br>residents reported adverse health outcomes, and support for state<br>legislation requiring the consent of residents before any aerial spraying.<br><br>In Berkeley, District 4 City Councilmember Dona Spring, a Green, authored a<br>resolution against the spray campaign and backed a lawsuit. "We've got<br>expert testimony that it would pose a hazard to human health so it's going<br>to be done over some dead bodies," Spring said.<br><br>And Richmond Mayor and Green Party member Gayle McLaughlin co-sponsored a<br>resolution against the spray for the City of Richmond, calling it<br>"expensive and ineffective." In an interview she stated, "It's very clear<br>there are many other ways to address this."<br><br>The Green Party's philosophy of local control and grassroots democracy may<br>help resolve the spray controversy in favor of local public health<br>officials, who have expressed concern and recommend using other methods.<br>Public Health Directors in Alameda County and Santa Cruz County have even<br>posted letters to state officials calling for consideration of different<br>and less toxic alternatives. However, state health officials believe the<br>spray is safe, and are willing to put profits over public health, even over<br>protest from other public health officials.<br>-30-<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>sosfbay-discuss mailing list<br>sosfbay-discuss@cagreens.org<br>http://lists.cagreens.org/mailman/listinfo/sosfbay-discuss<br></blockquote><br><div> <br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><hr size="1">Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! 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