Pesticides: Yesterday's "Solutions" Become Today's Problems
Subject: Yesterday's "Solutions" Become Today's Problems........
Date:
Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:34:43 -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 article:
London
: French forces who served in the Gulf War were not given the vaccines and
anti-biological warfare measures administered to British and
United States
veterans and are free from the illnesses that beset their allies, the US
Congress has been told.
Evidence to the subcommittee on national security shows the
effort made to protect service personnel from biological and chemical weapons is
most likely to have damaged their health.
The French were given protective suits but not the cocktail
of drugs that British and US service-men took. Only 140 of the 25,000
French
Gulf
veterans have reported illnesses related to Gulf War service, compared with
more than 5000 of the 52,000 British troops deployed, and 137,862 of the 697,000
US
service personnel.
Unlike US and British forces, the French used bottled
water, and did not use organophosphorous pesticides, now known to be very
dangerous to humans.
Fourteen inoculations were given to British troops. In
addition their immune systems were tested with the first-ever issue of nerve
agent pre- treatment tablets as an antidote against chemical weapons, and the
use of pesticides, including organophosphates to prevent fly- borne diseases. US
and British forces were in total exposed to 33 toxins.
Full story at: http://www.smh.com.au/news/0202/13/world/world3.html
Well Mr. Helliker, I love
the line: "Evidence to the subcommittee on national security shows the
effort made to 'protect' service personnel from biological and chemical weapons
is most likely to have damaged their health."
I am sure your ongoing efforts demanding that only your
"registered" POISONS can be "legally used to "protect the
people and crops" in
California
, is creating the same health problems. When
will it be "legal" (in your opinion) to use safe and far more
effective (unregistered) alternatives to actually control pest problems?
Respectfully,
Stephen L. Tvedten
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