LBAM Aerial Spray - Santa Cruz City Councilmember Ed Porter

Over 700 square miles of highly populated areas of the California Central Coast will be sprayed with a new untested pesticide by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA). The spray will be released from airplanes in the dark of night at 300 to 700 feet above homes and schools. They will spray residents every 30 to 90 days for years to come.

Residents are not allowed to know all the ingredients of the aerial spray because it would supposedly violate trade secret laws.

Aerial spraying is planned to start June 1, 2008 in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties and on August 1, 2008 for San Francisco Bay Area communities.

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[bpm4327]

If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area watch this video. You are going to be aerial sprayed with pesticides beginning this summer (2008), every 30 days, 9 months a year, for several years. Thank you for posting this video.

[eyes4truth]

The CDFA itself isn't sure how high the exposure level is. So how can you be? They're spraying microcapsules that time-release the pesticide continuously for 30-90 days. Jim Warren from USDA stated that there will only be around 33 microcapsules per sq. foot. Then CDFA's primary biologist stated that testing after the spray showed 809 microcapsules per sq. foot!! And no, Mexico and Canada aren't afraid of the moth. They're just using our own classifications and trade restrictions against us.

[larryjohnny]

nice work, please listen to KGO 810am 10p-1a Kristin Kraft, she is commenting and talking calls regarding this subject as well, we need to get national exposure to stop this!@

[hkibak]

Spraying the scent of a female moth at a few grams per acre is nothing compared to the tons of real pesticides they will spray the orchards and the nurseries with when this moth becomes established. If this moth is so unimportant then why is Mexico so afraid of the moth that they banned all strawberries coming from Watsonville?

I say spray the perfume now and keep the real poisons out of our food and off of our farmworkers!