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Together We Can Stop This! 4 THINGS YOU CAN DO
Here are some urgent suggestions from Play Not Spray that I highly recommend we all do ASAP.
1. Contact San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera and urge that he prepare litigation against the State of California on the LBAM issue.
Office of the City Attorney, City Hall, Room 234, San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 554-4700
(415) 554-4745 - fax
2. Contact Mayor Gavin Newsom. Plead with him to urge Rep. Pelosi to make reclassification of the light brown apple moth priority #1.
City Hall, Room 200, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 554-6141
3. Contact Rep. Nancy Pelosi. Urge her to make the reclassification of the light brown apple moth her top priority, as the health and lives of millions of Californians hang in the balance. Thank her for addressing this issue with Governor Schwarzenegger (in a letter released May 8, 2008) -- and urge her to persist in her efforts.
District Office: 450 Golden Gate Ave., 14th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 556-4862
It is best to call, but if you write and you're a constituent of the 8th District in San Francisco, write to her at: sf.nancy@mail.house.gov
If you're outside the 8th District, write to Speaker Pelosi at: AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov
4. Contact Sam Farr. Ask him to introduce a bill demanding the reclassification of LBAM.
Santa Cruz Office, 701 Ocean Street, Room 318, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(831) 429-1976
As you may know, the classification of LBAM “as an actionable quarantine pest” is based on outdated. classifications by the United States Department of Agriculture. This moth was classified as an enemy combatant without trial, which is considered one of the main reasons this mess may have started in the first place. They are classified as "class-A", but should be classified "B", the same class other North American leaf roller moths fall into. Class-B moths have never been quarantined, according to Jeff Rosendale, a horticulturist and Executive Director of U.C. Santa Cruz Arboretum. See "Panel exposes health risks of Light Brown Apple Moth chemical spray" for more.
It may seem like an issue of habeus corpus for the moth, but it really is about us humans in the end.
1. Contact San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera and urge that he prepare litigation against the State of California on the LBAM issue.
Office of the City Attorney, City Hall, Room 234, San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 554-4700
(415) 554-4745 - fax
2. Contact Mayor Gavin Newsom. Plead with him to urge Rep. Pelosi to make reclassification of the light brown apple moth priority #1.
City Hall, Room 200, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 554-6141
3. Contact Rep. Nancy Pelosi. Urge her to make the reclassification of the light brown apple moth her top priority, as the health and lives of millions of Californians hang in the balance. Thank her for addressing this issue with Governor Schwarzenegger (in a letter released May 8, 2008) -- and urge her to persist in her efforts.
District Office: 450 Golden Gate Ave., 14th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 556-4862
It is best to call, but if you write and you're a constituent of the 8th District in San Francisco, write to her at: sf.nancy@mail.house.gov
If you're outside the 8th District, write to Speaker Pelosi at: AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov
4. Contact Sam Farr. Ask him to introduce a bill demanding the reclassification of LBAM.
Santa Cruz Office, 701 Ocean Street, Room 318, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
(831) 429-1976
As you may know, the classification of LBAM “as an actionable quarantine pest” is based on outdated. classifications by the United States Department of Agriculture. This moth was classified as an enemy combatant without trial, which is considered one of the main reasons this mess may have started in the first place. They are classified as "class-A", but should be classified "B", the same class other North American leaf roller moths fall into. Class-B moths have never been quarantined, according to Jeff Rosendale, a horticulturist and Executive Director of U.C. Santa Cruz Arboretum. See "Panel exposes health risks of Light Brown Apple Moth chemical spray" for more.
It may seem like an issue of habeus corpus for the moth, but it really is about us humans in the end.
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Comment by kevinkrejci on May 27, 2008 at 12:49pm -
For more on this, I recommend the latest Vegan Reader post, "A Deadly Policy of Silence - LBAM Spray and the USA". They ask:
"I want to know why U.S. Congressman Sam Farr’s direct demand that USDA Secretary, Ed Schafer, and Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, Bruce Knight, explain to him how the LBAM was classified as a class A pest in the first place has still not received a reply over a month later."
It appears to still be a mystery. We need to demand an answer, then question the answer...
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Comment by kevinkrejci on May 27, 2008 at 12:18am
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Another good article to read sums it up quite well:
'So now we come to the Big Lie about the “pest that was never a pest.” Decades ago, LBAM made it onto a USDA list of supposedly voracious invasive species. To date, I have been unable to find this original designation. The main goal was, I believe, to protect powerful U.S. agriculture interests from competition from crops from New Zealand and similar areas. As a result, today we have the “Light Brown Apple Moth Emergency.” '
- Commentary: The Real Facts About Apple Moth Spraying
If you know of some good articles or research on the history of the moth and it's erroneous classification, please post!
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