[compost_tea] Methyl Bromide increased use in California

From: Robert Norsen <bnbrew_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:25:56 -0800 (PST)

PANUPS reports that the methyl bromide manufacturers have run a test to show that methyl bromide can be increased 8 to 9 times what it has been limited to with so little danger it can now be safely used as a field fumigant more freely than prior regulations have permitted. So California governments at state and county levels will vote before Nov 18 to allow this deadly poisin to be used increasingly. Even the counties where methly bromide had destroyed the strawberry fields, where the state ecology people had forbidden the use of MB because it was killing the sea life off the coast. Even where Dr Elaine Ingham has demonstrated successful agriculture with safe organic methods. All areas are being asked to approve the use of 8 to 9 times more methyl bromide.
 
How many times must these facts be proven to political leaders ?
 
1) Companies that have vital -to -them vested interests may not conduct valid tests to prove their product should be banned from use. duhh
 
2) Life in the soil, the microbes - the entire soil food web, that feeds and protects plants, is essential to plant health Methyl bromide destroys all of this life.
 
3) In extensive real life tests were conducted there in California strawberry fields..
 
3.1 Methyl bomide so steriized the soil that the strawberry crop was below economic levels, was lacking in f;avor, was lacking in food value. Market value was depressed.
3.2 Methyl bromide had become so dangerous to the workmen the cost of L&I insurance increased labor costs significantly.
3.3 Methyl bromide had killed several workmen. No report of how many were sickend or permanently injured by the poison. Medical research predicts serious delayed injury.
3.4 Methyl bromide had seeped into the adjoining coastal water enough to kill the sea life in that area. Sea life, not human life, was the reason goverment took action.
3.5 A fully organic method of growing strawberries was demonstrated in the same fields.
3.6 The yield increased to exceed the best yields recorded by past 'chemical ' growing.
3.6 The cost of production dropped enough to save farmers of the area $ 20,000,000 net in chemical and labor costs
3.7 The flavor of the berries improved and with that the market value and demand will increase.
 
4. Organic treatment has been found effective in many vital-to-California ways.
4.1 Threatened live oaks of California have been restored in test cases from advanced disease that has always been fatal to those trees. Methyl bromide failed to save these trees. Application of organic systems proved able to save these trees in good health..
4.2 In other areas of the world palm trees and banana trees have been returned from advanceed disease caused by poisons such as methyl bromide to productive economically viable healthy condition - by Organic.
 
5 The use of chemicals that destroy the essential microbic life in agricutural soil causes severe errosion, rapid depletion of the productive capacity of that soil.
5.1 This has been demonstrated many times in California and in many other areas of the planet.
 
6. California is presently a vital source of the wolrd's food.
Agricultrue is a vital part of California's economy. Methyl bromide puts that industry at risk.
 
6.1. Methyl bromide has a strong, delayed negative effect on your own population health..
6.2 Chemically grown products are rapidly becoming known for their poor flavor, poor nutrient value, probable cause of poor health..
6.3 Organnically grown food is rapidly becoming known for superior flavor, better nutrient value, longer shelf life.
6.4 Organically grown food is statistically proven to result in better health with medical costs so much lower Organc food really costs the consumer less in the long run. This information like a rumor, is spreading rapidly among consumers world wide. .
 
7 As government leaders methyl bromide risks your reputation and your place in office .
 
7.1 Accepting the test results of the manufacturer of a product to guide you in making any descision to increase the use of that product would be viewed between stupid and corrupt by constituants and by political opponents.
 
7.2 As leaders you should become familiar with a world wide movement toward organic agriculature. It is the most vital change in agriculture since the Indians put fish with each hill of corn
7.3. If as leaders you permit continued or increased use of methyl bomide and other hazardous agricutural practices your action will rapidly lead to either your being ousted or California's agricultural industry being terribly damaged. Probably both.
 
Don't let it happen ! Bob Norsen .
 




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