Laugh Locally: May 14, 2008 - Pacifica Tribune Online

The Light Brown Apple Moth, is so named because of its voracious appetite for light brown apples.

[bpm]

Ian, I suggest you do your LBAM homework and review CBS 5 Investigates with Anna Werner - good investigative journalism along with videos with the principals being interviewed:

"Is Apple Moth Really A Risk"
http://cbs5.com/investigates/apple.moth.spray...

"Apple Moth Pesticide Tests May Not Go Far Enough"
http://cbs5.com/investigates/moth.spraying.te...

"Scientists Question Safety of Apple Moth Pesticide"
http://cbs5.com/investigates/apple.moth.spray...

[Janis De Lay]

If only I could find such humor in my two months of asthma attacks that began 2 hours after the spraying and could be broken by leaving my home of 40 year (Pacific Grove) and going to Sacramento's exhaust filled air. If only the Wilcox family who's 11 month old had to be rushed to emergency because he could breath after he was sprayed, could find the humor in his little baby paranoia and the continuing asthma treatments he now has to endure. It would be nice to turn our pain to laughter, but you are just not that funny.

[bob billings]

Ian, you idiot.
The Malathion did seem to get to you, and severely to your brain and senses.

There isn't a single drop of moth pheromone in the whole spray. Its a toxic synthetic chemical pesticide. Cause it attracts moths doesn't make it safe like the natural moth pheromone you idiot.

You should have this column taken away for the insult to little children that had difficulty breathing after the sprays.

Two tablespoons per acre, you idiot. 1/100th tablespoon per acre is too much of some chemicals for humans to live with. Those 2 tablespoons last for up to 90 days in the air and can interfere with the development of children's bodies, you idiot. Those two tablespoons are 340,000 times more synthetic chemical in the air than the amount of natural chemical that we are accustomed to, you idiot.

I guess you also think 2 tablespoons of horse manure and plutonium are the same. You idiot. You should be tried for child negligence and ignorance for joking about this and being so uninformed, given that you write a column.

[ooppoddoo]

Oh contraire mon frair. LBAM-F & Checkmate OLR-F are classified by EPA as 'biochemical pesticides,' and the spraying does cause health problems for many people. How nice for you that you're not one of them, and how superior you must feel! That's great, and so glad you get such a big kick out of the misfortunes of others. Bet you're mamma's proud of you, huh?

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/plant_...

[ooppoddoo]

Well stated, and thank you!

bob billings wrote:

Ian, you idiot.
The Malathion did seem to get to you, and severely to your brain and senses.
There isn't a single drop of moth pheromone in the whole spray. Its a toxic synthetic chemical pesticide. Cause it attracts moths doesn't make it safe like the natural moth pheromone you idiot.
You should have this column taken away for the insult to little children that had difficulty breathing after the sprays.
Two tablespoons per acre, you idiot. 1/100th tablespoon per acre is too much of some chemicals for humans to live with. Those 2 tablespoons last for up to 90 days in the air and can interfere with the development of children's bodies, you idiot. Those two tablespoons are 340,000 times more synthetic chemical in the air than the amount of natural chemical that we are accustomed to, you idiot.
I guess you also think 2 tablespoons of horse manure and plutonium are the same. You idiot. You should be tried for child negligence and ignorance for joking about this and being so uninformed, given that you write a column.

[holymodron]

The Apple Moth doesn't harm anything. And the state of California knows it. So whay are they spraying? Some pork deal? Most likely, and at the expense of our health and toxifiying the environment, unnecessarily.

People KNOW they are being sprayed by the US Military's Weather Modification, AKA Weather Warfare, Programs. All you have to do is LOOK UP!. Presently, there are 66 programs of aerosol spraying being done within our US Borders.

Massive ammounts of toxic metals have been falling from OUR skies for over 10 years. So imagine the ill-effects of metal poisoning on the environment.

And Sheep wonder where the bees have gone...geesh.