Good morning lovely people.
Because we have a variety of new members, even from the Midwest, I would like to briefly go over why I started this newsletter #_WIST. As someone who spent an ungodly number of years studying biology and chemistry, I am dismayed by the flippant approval of many toxins by our government.
This flippant approval by the very agencies that are supposed to be regulating the industry to protect us is exactly why we have sick children and forever chemicals. Our regulatory agencies have in a few cases been bought out by $lobbying and $PR departments.
I could complain long and bitterly about how we have poisoned our children, our gut microbes, and our own bodies. The link below is really a very informative piece of journalism. I highly recommend it!
The best email quote of all time.
“Recall that is how we handled Williams, Kroes, and Munro.”
Even our own Cal EPA gets an unflattering cameo
Please ask our environmental organizations to provide basic information on what pesticides the national parks are spraying.
https://chng.it/9Dj4vKwbK5
But I realize that simply griping and not providing a doable solution is no solution.
I realized that there was no possible way I was going to be able to influence the farm lobby or Bayer/Monsanto) in any way. And so I started thinking about…
Non-toxic Or Chemical Free Zones
#ChemFreeZones for our endangered animals and even ourselves.
I decided to ask the national parks if they would be interested. The responses I got were not friendly. So I asked what pesticides they actually were using and the response I got was even less friendly. I asked the sierra club, audubon society and world wildlife fund if they would like to look into pesticide use in our national parks and how that impacted our endangered animals.
The response I got was… again… less than friendly. In fact, it was somewhat unfriendly. Game on.
I’m going to keep filing FOIAs to obtain pesticide information from our national parks. I’m going to keep calling on the sierra club, the audubon society, and world wildlife fund to come clean about whether they take money from the pesticide, forestry, and mining industries.
I’m going to keep calling on the sierra club, audubon society, and world wildlife fund to regurgitate their cache of hoarded public documents that would benefit the environment.
It is time people stopped blaming the government for our environmental catastrophe. We need to (should… even must) start blaming the actual organizations that claim to be our friends and to be defending our environment. Because they have claimed to do so for over 60 years now and what do we have today? 60 Tears of environmental destruction. And not a single square inch of our land that cannot be sprayed with the latest greatest toxin. It is puzzling. It seems that they don’t really want to protect the environment. It seems that they just want to generate income by telling you that they do.
I keep coming across stuff I didn’t know about DDT 😀
I knew:
The main breakdown product of DDT is DDE. It is longer lived and more toxic than DDT itself and yet the pesticide manufacturers say that DDT is “gone” in less than a month. Technically true.
But what I didn’t know:
Quote:
Dichloro-diphenyl-dichloroethylene (DDE) is the primary breakdown product of DDT and is well-established as an endocrine disruptor.. DDE interferes with the body’s natural hormone systems through several mechanisms:
Mimicking androgens: DDE acts as an androgen receptor antagonist, interfering with the normal function of male hormones.
Affecting estrogen synthesis and signaling: It can alter estrogen production and interact with estrogen receptors, leading to disruptions in female reproductive health.
Influencing other endocrine pathways: DDE has also been shown to impact other hormone systems like progesterone and oxytocin signaling, potentially affecting reproductive function and pregnancy outcomes.
Wow.
All of these effects directly impact our endangered animals as well!
Wow. How scary it would be if there were 10 other pesticides that acted like DDT.
Or even scarier would be a hundred 😲
Or a thousand….
10 thousand….
We now have more than 17,000 pesticide products currently registered for use in the United States.
And _none_ were ever, nor have since been, studied adequately with respect to combinations and effects other than some simple acute toxicity.
If you skipped over the
Link above I highly recommend it and I also recommend subscribing to the YouTube channel. They do some really fun things. Thank you Carey Gilliam!
GMO/Toxin Free USA (@GMOFreeUSA) posted at 3:30 AM on Sat, Aug 09, 2025:
Bayer spent a whopping $2.5 million last quarter lobbying the Trump admin on pesticide policy! That’s not chump change, it’s bribery! Big Ag vs. chronic disease reform. https://t.co/WtAZjMIJKD
This isn’t just a policy fight. It’s a battle for heart of the safe food and https://t.co/5JOBH9seSa
(https://x.com/GMOFreeUSA/status/1954128162746425774?t=FFVavt1fQs7zAB0-jV1IUg&s=03)
The sierra club is the oldest, most decrepit, and fastest failing of the environmental groups in America. It was started by John Muir in 1892.
And all the evidence says that he would be ashamed of them today.
The sierra club’s slogan is “Enjoy, Explore, and Protect the Planet”. Doing the first two is certainly not up to the sierra club, but the sc does offer some hikes. However meetup hiking groups are far more numerous than sc hikes now.
And because of the above, the sc is completely failing at gaining new _younger_ members.
The sierra club certainly doesn’t _do_ the last item (“Protect the Planet”) even though it likes to advertise that it does. The younger generation has seen a lot of PR by a lot of big business. The younger generations are a lot more immune to snake oil salesman claiming one thing while doing the exact opposite. If you want to help protect the planet sc then release your hoarded FOIA data.
The sierra club offers educational meetings… except the majority of the ones I’ve seen (Los Angeles) are about photo trips to somewhere far far away using up planet resources to get there. They do _not_ offer meetings or even website links on the most serious attack on our environment — pesticides
In order to find good sierra club info on pesticides you have to go past the one lonely broken link on the US site to the _Canadian_ Sierra Club’s website.
I wonder why? It’s just not possible that the US fraction is taking money from the pesticide, forestry, and mining industries.
I sincerely hope that the people on this list do not have any of the plethora of ills that seem common in the USofA these days.
Best to you all.