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Originally Posted by Nicolas Naranja
If you have ever been part of a municipal or county budget process you would be shocked to see how many non-profit organizations are there with their hands out.
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I don't doubt that at all.
So you have a group of people (not for profit) with a clear agenda that is anti pesticide, anti poison. They have every right right to say whatever they want without my tax dollars being spent in an effort to dispute those claims.
One might ask why the government is so concerned about the "Dirty Dozen"
Perhaps CDFA Secretary A.G. Kawamura is part of that answer? He's said to have close ties to some very privileged chemical companies.
Or maybe more things like the LBAM spraying debacle which he was involved in?
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Or just the massive amounts of pesticides used and how much the chemicals companies profit from it. Follow the money trail...
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After a massive increase in pesticide use in the early to mid-1990's, reported use in California has stabilized at about 200 million pounds of active ingredients each year. This figure only includes farm use and professional pesticide use. Not included are consumer and much institutional pesticide use. Also not included in this figure are so-called 'inert' ingredients. U.S. pesticide use is about 1.2 billion pounds each year, and worldwide pesticide use is about 5 billion pounds each year.
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That is about $20 Billion of pesticides in California, EVERY YEAR, about six pounds for every pregnant lady, fetus, infant, child, adult and senior.
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