Slow Food
Good, Clean, and Fair Food
Slow Food is a non-profit, eco-gastronomic member-supported organization that was founded in 1989 to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world. Today, we have over 80,000 members a ...learn more
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Created: Nov 30, 2007
Updated: Nov 19, 2009
Membership: Open
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THE PROBLEM
The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) in an effort to eradicate the Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM), will start aerial spraying over Marin on August 1, 2008, and it will continue for several years.
- The pesticide CDFA proposes to use is a new formulation of CheckMate™ and will likely include as yet undisclosed chemicals that will be encased in microscopic plastic capsules. The aerially sprayed pesticide will drift in the wind and be inhaled by people.
- There have been no independent studies to determine either the short or long term health or environmental effects of CheckMate on the general population or any other species.
- From September through November 2007, citizens of the Monterey Bay communities were sprayed. They were assured there would be no adverse health impacts and yet hundreds of people in Santa Cruz and Monterey reported illnesses.
THE SOLUTION
TO STOP THE SPRAY MARIN
Call Governor Schwarzenegger and ask for an Executive Order to stop the spraying!
Support our legislators actions and request that they withhold funding for LBAM aerial spraying.
ATTEND:
Monday March 10th
Join us on the Capitol steps in Sacramento to ask our Governor to STOP THE SPRAY IN MARIN
10:00am Gather
11:00 am Press Conference
Hosted by Senator Carole Migden
Support our legislators actions
GET INVOLVED:
- Sign up now ( stopthespraymarin.org )
- Contact our elected and appointed officials
Governor Schwarzenegger (916) 445-2841
Senator Carole Migden (415) 479-6612
CDFA Secretary Kawamura akawamura@cdfa.ca.gov
Stop The Spray Marin Founding Members:
Judi Shils, Director, Search for the Cause
Skip Berg, Former Member Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) / California Coastal Commission
Paul Schramski Director, Pesticide Watch
Ginger Souders Mason Director, Pesticide Free Zone Campaign
Frank Egger, President North Coast Rivers Alliance
