Posted on 04/15/2008 3:30:31 PM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp
The vision of airplanes rumbling slowly over San Francisco, spraying a pesticide mist on parks and playgrounds, has now mobilized one of the most effective lobbying groups in the world.
Moms.
The California Department of Food and Agriculture's plan to eradicate the light brown apple moth with aerial spraying over the city this summer was already in an uphill fight. But when 100 or so mothers and kids showed up at City Hall on Monday afternoon with signs like "Keep Your Spray Off My Baby," it was clear that the battle had entered a new phase.
"Nothing gets people more irate than a government institution spraying their kids from a plane," said Jared Blumenfeld, director of the San Francisco Department of the Environment. "It's a bad movie. And nobody wants to be in that movie."
Lynn Murphy, a mother of two, was at Monday's rally, somewhat surprised to be chanting "Stop the Spray" along with everyone else.
"I don't consider myself an activist," said Murphy, who lives a few blocks from Golden Gate Park, where the most moths have been found so far in the city. "But when it comes down to your children and protecting your family, it seems so much more urgent. I never thought I would be talking to my 4-year-old and telling her that we are going up to the state Capitol to talk to politicians."
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My Conservative credentials are impeccable. I’m probably more Conservative than you. I know I’m more Conservative than the vast majority of people here.
Where do I go to get my “Moths have Mothers” bumpersticker?
Did you just pull that out of a hat, or do you have a link?
Moths are people, too! Don’t spray me, bro!
Have you ever read the MSDS on any of them? The listed hazards are numerous, and serious. They are able to kill insects that are estimated by competent biologists to be more than 1000 times as robust as humans.
Do your own research. It’s not that hard. When you do you’ll learn alot along the way and hopefully try to get some facts before offering up trite opinions.
That was research and not a link? OK.
I gotta get me one of those gas masks.
How many college-level science courses have you taken? I have a BA from a major university in a science field.
You never did answer the question as to whether you work for a chemical company or not?
Then you should know how to read and understand the info on a MSDS, and see that you are on shaky ground.
Keep this to yourself, (Google “Checkmate Pheromone”).
Yours is the only opinion that counts; everyone else’s is trite. Got it.
Sweetie your are posting little snippets of your tirade faster than I can keep up with. Of course I don't work for a chemical company. But that wouldn't make a difference if I did. That's how liberals argue, attack the source instead of the argument.
I work in state government.
Tirade? Unlike you, I can hold my own, and don’t have to call out for reinforcements.
Well, no wonder you have faith in the government, as I posted up there in #23. You’re a part of it!
Actually, DDT is quite safe, partly because it is effective at very low levels, but also because it has not been found to cause any harm to higher animals, no matter how hard they tried to prove that it did.
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