OTNP Jan 2026
Good morning lovely people.
Happy New Year
I hope you all had a wonderful start to your New Year and wish you a fantastic year to come.
I’m not really bothered or concerned about you as an adult; there’s the expression Urban Darwinism. I am; however, deeply concerned about the child abuse our pesticide industry is perpetrating.
We must have a zero tolerance policy for neurotoxic pesticides around our children.
Zero tolerance for at least one mile around public and private schools. We must have zero tolerance of neurotoxins around places of worship; churches, mosques, synagogues, etc. We must have absolutely zero tolerance for neurotoxic child abuse around municipal parks.
California dpr is not only racist (as claimed by Californians for Pesticide Reform) but they are in effect also child abusers.
For the cdpr to not have quality guidelines focusing on neurotoxic chemicals in the areas where children learn (remember I am focusing on neurotoxicity), and play, is simply child abuse.
Californians for Pesticide Reform published a story where they called the California department of pesticide regulation racist.
In a pathetically weak response the cdpr generated some rules about drift prone pesticide use. Absolutely pathetic because it’s only a quarter mile which is nearly pointless, and insanely pathetic in that it’s only during the hours the schools are in session as if the drift won’t settle or cling to desks at night. And also pathetic in that the cdpr does not publish a full list of those pesticides where it can be easily found, studied, and challenged. It’s almost as if they promote industry over children.
Key points from the Californians for Pesticide Reform story
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The [California] Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) said the rules take effect on January 1, 2018. After that date, growers won’t be able to apply certain drift-prone pesticides to fields within a quarter mile of schools and day care centers during school hours.
Hey CDPR – what are those pesticides and why after 8 years don’t you have a list of them as a link on your main website?
A quarter mile?
Only during school?
2)
Californians for Pesticide Reform said:
Gabriela Fassi (sp Facio), a senior policy strategist with Sierra Club California, said the department rejected the state’s own toxicologists at the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, which set a long-term safe exposure limit of 0.04 parts per billion in the air.
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[California] DPR has not only refused to ban Telone (aka 1,3D), but has refused to follow the findings of the state’s own cancer experts at the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment,” Fassi (sp Facio) said. “In the end, DPR has given us a regulation that allows school children to be exposed to 14 times more 13D than the cancer risk threshold level established by our state toxicologists at OEHHA.”
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Ignoring Science and Public Comment: Advocacy groups argue the DPR ignored the state’s own toxicologists and public comment in favor of industry interests. (over 99.9% of comments opposed the weaker standard)
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The [California] Department of Pesticide Regulation said in a statement that it is committed to protecting public health and is working with toxicologists to reduce exposure.
Hey CDPR – Yeah. Right. Working really hard. I just can’t understand why you are being called racist.
Oh my.
In the last half dozen years the California department of pesticide regulation has become as toxic as our toxic national parks (OTNP). The cdpr has started to hide pesticide information, hide decision making processes. and hide industry collaborations from the public.
I have carefully read the loopholes the pesticide industry has placed in organic rules and regulations.
You (my reader) are slowly and methodically being poisoned by the pesticide industry.
If you are happy and healthy with no conditions such as IBS, irritable bowel, pancreatic insufficiency, gluten intolerance, autism;
If you don’t have children or grandchildren… well then, you probably don’t need to worry about:
Pesticide Half-life, product drift, newly approved chemicals for use on organic, carcinogenesis, forevercides…
Or enantiomeric forms of a chemical, or neurotoxicity.
… and your kids, grandkids, nieces, and nephews will probably be okay after a bit of Urban Darwinism.
We must encourage California to stop putting adult greed before children’s hugs.
We desperately need
#ChemFreeZones
Especially around our schools!
Please ask our environmental organizations to provide basic information on what pesticides the national parks are spraying.
https://chng.it/9Dj4vKwbK5