88.6% Willingly Stop Using
Pesticides
..,prevailing attitude used to be
complacency because of the notion the federal government was monitoring
everything closely and would order products off store shelves if they proved
hazardous to one's health.
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Subject: 88.6% Willingly Stop Using Pesticides-------
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 02:31:32 -0500
From: Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization: Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)
To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State
of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation
cc: Carol Browner browner.carol@epa.gov
Dear Mr. Helliker,
I thought you might like to read an article entitled: 88.6% Willingly
Stop Using Pesticides - from the Montreal Gazette - Thursday 28, December 2000
- Pollution near us doesn't scare us by Lisa Fitterman.
And a whopping 88.6 per cent of respondents said they
would willingly stop using pesticides in and around their homes, a figure that
environmental activist Merryl Hammond called "heartening."
People have come a long way in the last few years, she
said - the prevailing attitude used to be complacency because of the notion
the federal government was monitoring everything closely and would order
products off store shelves if they proved hazardous to one's health.
"It's good to know that people are so open, because
that was one of my concerns about the (municipal) mergers," Hammond said
from her home in Baie d'Urfe, which is challenging the provincial government's
recently passed merger legislation. "But I don't think not using
pesticides should be a voluntary decision, period. It should be
legislated."
She noted that many suburbs have followed the lead of
Hudson, which in 1991 banned pesticide use for cosmetic purposes out of
concern for the "general welfare" for its residents.
Up to Top Court
But it hasn't been easy, because the Hudson town
council's decision has been challenged all the way up to the Supreme Court of
Canada, which is weighing arguments it heard last week.
"You know, the only crop we're trying to grow in
suburbia is children," Hammond said. "Let's be precautionary on
principle."
Source url:http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/pages/001228/5007683.html
Well Mr. Helliker,
the public seems more and more fed up with your "registered"
POISONS. When will it be
"legal" (in your opinion) to use safe and far more effective
(unregistered) alternatives to actually control pest problems in California?
Respectfully, Stephen
L. Tvedten
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