What will stop the "registered" madness
Subject: What will stop the "registered" madness
Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 13:06:42 -0400
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 Regulationcc: Christine Whitman whitman.christine@epa.gov
Dear Mr. Helliker, I just received the following e-mails back-to-back:
A leading American scientist says he believes pesticides may be a far more serious public health threat than anyone has realised.
Nicholas Ashford, Professor of Technology and Policy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says he thinks chemicals are the most serious environmental problem facing industrialised countries today.
Professor Ashford - who is also an advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme - is known for his work on the theory of multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS).
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Professor Ashford believes the huge rise in pesticide use over the last half century could explain many illnesses, ranging from skin rashes and breathing problems to cancers and birth defects. Other research in the United States suggests that about one-third of the population -- sixty million people -- may be affected in some way. Professor Ashford says: 'Pesticides are nerve poisons; they damage the brain and they are also known to be endocrine disruptors' (synthetic chemicals which interfere with naturally produced hormones). He wants to see an immediate reduction in pesticide use until the effects are better understood, and is pressing for the formation of a European Union environment unit to study the problem. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_189000/189982.stm
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Healing Our World: Weekly Comment
by Jackie Alan Giuliano, Ph.D.How Can We Possibly Go On?
"Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive." -- His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama.
Maybe it is just because of my heightened sensitivities at the one year anniversary of the birth of my son, but recently I have felt a profound despair at the depth of cruelty, ignorance, greed, and lack of concern for the health of the Earth and her people and animals going on all around me. The newspaper sickens me, the endless reports of the Bush administration's elimination of environmental rules for industry sicken me, and even reading my own reports of the greed and destruction in our world makes me nauseous. I wonder how I can go on in the midst of this madness. I know that I am not the only one feeling this way. A friend of mine who is a holistic doctor in Southern California told me the other day that early every one of his patients is feeling the negative effects of something profound going on. Emails I receive from readers all over the world mirror this upset. For full text and graphics visit: http://ens-news.com/ens/may2002/2002L-05-17g.html
Copyright: Environment News Service (ENS) 2002 All Rights Reserved.
Well Mr. Helliker, Howard Zinn once noted: "Recall the face of the poorest and most helpless person you have seen and ask yourself if the next step you contemplate is going to be of any use to that person." If there are safe and far more effective unregistered alternatives, do you really believe your current policy of only allowing the "legal" use of your "registered" POISONS to "control" pest problems is of any use (especially) to those of us who are dying? Are you ready to stop the needless pesticide pollution?
Respectfully, Stephen L. Tvedten
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