They are planning to aerial spray San Francisco (and other parts of the Bay Area) every 30-90 days for 2-10 years in order to eradicate a moth that, so far, has done no damage. (Another account has it at 3-4 days every month for up to 10 years.) This is beyond horrifying. The health implications are enormous.
See also Play Not Spray.
And California Alliance to Stop the Spray.
And Stop the Spray.
Get involved!
Are you sure this isn’t just a plan by the homos that run San Cramcrisco to remove the taint of “breeders” from the Sodom by the Bay?
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More San Francisco idiocy.
Every Agency of California Government is packed full of hand-wringing nervous ninnies. If this was truly dangerous it wouldn’t even be considered.
What is the pesticide that they are planning to use? Not a mention in the article.
My wife’s sister passed away from cancer some years ago. There was a large fruit orchard right behind them which was periodically sprayed, year after year. Although not proven, the neighbors and family believe the spraying may have been the cause due to the high incidence of cancer in the surrounding neighborhood. No way to prove it of course, so I suppose we’ll never know for sure.
In the mid-80’s, my mother was pregnant (would have been #4) as were 4 other women on our street. In the week after one particular company sprayed lawns with pesticides, all 5 of them miscarried (all were in second trimester). There was an enormous spike in miscarriages in the city that year, more than 5x normal. I still don’t know why they didn’t pursue charges at the time. It didn’t get coverage outside of the local press (who refused to identify the company to the general public), and I don’t think anything happened to the company or its operators after it declared bankruptcy, probably from general incompetence unrelated to their use of compounds toxic to human pre-borns.
It would be acceptable if they were doing it from a truck?
Find out what day they are going to spray and keep your kids inside. Problem solved.
Where are you on "Chem-Trails"?
Just curious...
It’s best to whack introduced species, if you wait until the do damage it’s usually too late because the damage they usually do is the eradication of a native species. And it’s a species known to do a lot of damage to crops, our economy has enough issues right now with out letting some introduced species at the CA fruit crop.
Nuke the whales
Save the medfly!
Have you ever lived where there was an infestation of caterpillars? No? I didn’t think so. You can stay inside while the spraying is going on, but the caterpillars stay around a lot longer. They drop from the trees, onto your head and shoulders, they cover your walks and driveway and crawl up the sides of your house.
It takes a couple of years for the infestation to reach that point, but if you don’t let them spray, you’ll find out.
There are still people with kids living in San Francisco?
I'm already involved in exterminating every critter I find to be even mildly troublesome.