Pesticides are not in God's design
Subject: Pesticides are not in God's design
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 08:43:59 -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: Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov
Dear Mr. Helliker, I thought you might like to read the following comment:
http://www.whidbeynewstimes.com
Environment Pesticides are not in God's design
I am following with interest articles about trying to find safe alternatives to toxic pesticides on Whidbey Island. As someone who is extremely pesticide intolerant, I hope all will think about the consequences of chronic low level exposure to poisons and find safe alternatives.
One wonders how long it will take for common sense to prevail upon the issue of pesticides. It does not seem that man learns much from history.
When Vietnam vets tried to report illnesses from Agent Orange exposures, industries and science community that benefited from these products rejected this information. Eventually scientific research validated chemical injury from exposure to Agent Orange. When Gulf War vets reported illnesses from exposures to toxic substances, again industries and scientific community who benefit from production of products in their protocols rejected the complaints of the soldiers. Research by Robert Haley, M.D., and/or others has been out for several years indicating that soldier exposed to low levels of organophosphate pesticide and/or nerve gas agents like sarin were, in fact, intolerant of low level exposures. Researchers have known for years that not all people have the same level of tolerance to chemicals and that children are especially at risk because their tolerance is lowest.
Unfortunately, those who benefit from the present scientific system are unwilling to accept negative feedback about the failures in their system of synthetic product creations. Pesticides and many other synthetic creations of man were never a result of the natural order of things, or, a creation in God's design. Pesticides are, by manmade, design created to interfere with life. Because someone does not die immediately from low levels of these poisons does not mean that they are not harming humans. It is accepted that Vietnam vets who were exposed to Agent Orange and developed diabetes and other illnesses developed them as a result of exposures to supposedly safe poisons.
Monsanto might like us to believe that their products like Roundup (glyphosphate) are safe as salt. Like Dursban and sarin, glyphosate has an orgnophosphate-like chemical structure. Although glyphosate is not made up of organophosphate esters responsible for inhibition of neurotoxin enzyme metabolism, Finnish research found that Roundup affects enzymes found in mammals. In rats, Roundup decreased the activity of two detoxification enzymes in the liver and an intestinal enzyme." (Hietanen, E., K. Linnainmaa, and H. Vainio. 1983. Effects of phenoxy herbicides and glyphosate on the hepatic and intestinal biotransformation activities in the rat. Acta Pharma. et Toxicol. 53:103-112.). If you believe the that Agent Orange and orgnophosphate are safe, then you can use glyphosates. I won't be surprised when it is eventually removed from the marketplace. I won't be surprised when pesticides are replaced by safe alternatives!
Nazis created sarin in 1939 to solve their perceived problems. It is time we find less destructive alternatives to control our problems. If you want to breathe, eat and drink pesticides, that may be your choice. However, please allow those of us who cannot tolerate these poisons to have air, water and food that is not contaminated by them. It is time to find safe alternatives to the Nazi protocol.
Don Richard Paladin
Bellingham
Well, Mr. Helliker, I like Hirofumi Daimatsu, believe that a person's true happiness comes from being able to look back in their past and feel they worked hard to achieve something and, in fact, achieved it. What are you trying to achieve, the safe and effective elimination of pest problems or the contamination of our world?
Respectfully, Stephen L. Tvedten
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