Anti-mosquito spraying involves the use of chemicals approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Pesticides are emitted as a mist dispersed from machines anchored in the backs of pickup trucks.
Well the chemicals are approved by the EPA! I feel great now. Oh wait so is Roundup.
According to Department of Environmental Health spokesman Brent Casey, concentrations of mosquitoes that tested positive for West Nile virus have raised concerns about the potential for it to be transmitted.
Well there are important concerns about West Nile being transmitted so it is OK right. But ….
No human WNV infections have been documented in Riverside County this year. Statewide, two infections have been recorded, in Central and Northern California, according to the California Department of Public Health.
No, it’s not okay; as the quote above states no cases in Riverside county and in the entire State … 2.
Our biomedical and pesticide industries are comfortable with collateral damage if there is enough profit involved. Successful lawsuits as with Roundup cut into that profit, but the focus is not to make a safer product but to make successful lawsuits more difficult. Make it hard to get accurate information on where the treatments are taking place and specifically what chemicals are involved. And while I enjoy the Patch they are not the LA Times. They are not the San Diego Union-Tribune, or the Sacramento Bee. But by everything under the Sun the politicians are not withholding information or making it hard to get, it was published in a newspaper!!!
Breakdown products — we have no clue as to the effects of the break down products of many of these chemicals. Is it possible that companies could be required to spend a small portion of their sales on independent studies of breakdown products and possible consequences?
Drug interactions and contraindicated treatments or procedures. When you go to a doctor they work with computerized information as to when a treatment or drug is not recommended alongside another condition or drug. This is a good thing! But experiments had to been done to find all those interactions. Those experiments are not profitable for the pesticide industry. Is it possible that companies could be required to spend a small portion of their sales on independent studies of toxic interactions of their thousands and thousands (20,000+ approved) of products and possible consequences? http://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/agriculture-is-killing-way-more-bees-than-we-realized-huge-study-reveals/
As of today only one side of the equation is being funded. It’s impossible to have a fair discussion when that is the case.
http://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/dead-dragonflies/
http://www.puravidaaquatic.com/wordpress/pesticides-animal-models/