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Sunday February 1st
Lovely day
Went hiking, worked on cdpr computer stuff and then had ice cream at Baskin-Robbins.
Really good Mr Sandman parody.
Nice guitar work!
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When big government entities act with willful ignorance and strategic stupidity, it causes tangible damage to their credibility. The California cdpr advertises “Our mission is to protect human health and the environment by regulating pesticide sales and use, and by fostering reduced-risk pest management.” This is the first sentence on their website.
Really? Behind big words and lots and lots of gobbledygook they:
1) hide how they allocate the chemical ingredients to different working groups (teams) this just begs for money and politics to become more involved than human health.
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2) The California dpr is required by law to post certain information but they do so in ways that make independent analysis extremely difficult if not impossible. If you simply wanted to find out what chemicals were put on your lettuce and how many tons it would be extremely difficult if not literally impossible for the average person.
3) Repeated attempts to get workable data for:
1) chemicals
2) quantities used and
3) what they were used on (information that should literally be the lead information for each and every year on their website) has only resulted in false information with no attempts to verify their statements. Statements such as, this file “is available here” when in reality it doesn’t exist. How is it that the person answering couldn’t be bothered to click _on their own links_ to check. If this is an example of the quality of cdpr regulation, our children are all doomed.
You want to bet me whether or not the pesticide companies have all this information. Who does the cdpr work for; you or the pesticide industry?
I didn’t want to get into lettuce and the farm lobby! For me trying to fight the farm lobby would be insane. I thought that I/we could try to clean up our national parks! And have chemical free zones. But similarly to the cdpr, the national parks have spent two years hiding the facts. The national parks even hide the column headings of their pesticide use database: _just the headings_.
Would reorganization of the park leadership even help? Thanks for all your “help” Sierra Club, Audubon, WWF.
3EasyThings2Do
PS
When something sounds too good to be true, it often is. https://environmentamerica.org/california/articles/why-do-environmental-groups-oppose-the-bill-to-save-our-sequoias/
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