SAN DIEGO RESIDENTS AND CONCERNED CITIZENS: Help us stop spraying of pesticides in neighborhoods in San Diego. Our homes, parks, schools, streets and churches are being sprayed by San Diego Vector Control. We need to come together to let them know we do not support this action. SD Vector Control would like to spray toxic pesticides with ingredients known to be carcinogenic and neurotoxic (references below) around our homes, where we walk our dogs, where our children play and learn, and on the local fruit and vegetables we grow and eat. This spray will get into our water supply and affect every aspect of our lives. Bees will die. Fish will die. Butterflies will die. SDVCD would like to do this to residents this 2016 season utilizing our own tax dollars to poison us. In sum, we are asking that you sign this petition to show support of alternative mosquito abatement processes. Some alternative solutions are: 1. Launch an aggressive and successful outreach program that will deliver the most important message, "check for and dump standing water" (the single most effective tool) 2. Work with cities to reduce the standing water as it relates to infrastructure (which spraying will never be able to address). 3. If needed, use non-toxic methods to eradicate mosquitoes. We would like to work together with SD Vector Control to come up with a plan that can garner the support of the community it serves. We support non-toxic solutions. Spraying will affect us for generations to come. It takes one second to sign this petition to prevent the beginning of spraying in San Diego County, CA but it can take years to stop it once it's started and DECADES to clean up our environment after its been done. Please "Like" us on our Facebook page “Non Toxic San Diego" https://www.facebook.com/groups/1786277901586719/ THANK YOU! PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION - sign once and share twice! References: Pesticides are one of the five worst threats to children's health. The other four are lead, air pollution, environmental tobacco smoke, and drinking-water contamination. - Journal of Environmental Health, May 1998, vol.60, no.9, p.46 (2)-http://www.nrdc.org/health/kids/ocar/chap5.asp This article looks specifically at the impacts that toxins, such as pesticides, specifically organophosphates, carbamates, and pyrethroids can have on children."Organophosphates and carbamates are toxic to the nervous system, and some of the pyrethroids are believed to be toxic to the reproductive system and disruptive to endocrine function.” - Contemporary Pediatrics, February 2001, vol.18, issue 2, p.110 (11). pyrethroids, which are used in most insecticides, can persists in soil for weeks or months. -http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/25677.pdf One of the *non-insecticide* ingredients in most aerial spray application products, Piperonyl Butoxide (PBO), is incredibly toxic, and has been linked to delayed mental development in children in two major studies at Columbia and Duke Universities. PBO also can persist for weeks before breaking down in the environment under certain conditions-http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/127/3/e699http://www.ewg.org/news/news-releases/2012/05/31/duke-study-confirms-toxicity-widely-used-pesticide-ingredientNeurotoxic pesticides blamed for the world's bee collapse are also harming butterflies, worms, fish and birds, said a scientific review that called for tighter regulation to curb their use.-http://phys.org/news/2014-06-pesticides-threaten-birds-bees-alike.html#jCp “The method of application can also change the risk of pesticide poisoning. Aerial applications have the highest potential risk for causing bee kills. Most bee kills occur when the pesticide drifts or moves from the target area into the apiary or onto crops attractive to the bees. The outcome of drift can be catastrophic.” - The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
September 13, 2016
September 11, 2016
San Diego Vector Control thinks they can poison our neighborhoods without a fight. We are creeping toward 250 signatures and we need to hit that mark right now to show them we are watching. Send this link to your neighbors immediately so we can ramp up the pressure on these bureaucrats.
Reached 100 supporters
September 9, 2016
97 Comments
As a grandmother, a beekeeper and one concerned about what kind of legacy we leaving our children, the pesticides need to be stopped. They are poisoning our foods, weakening our immune systems and causing many health problems. Stop the genocide!
As a biologist and environmentalist, I think it is not only unnecessary but also very detrimental to spray toxic pesticides in an attempt to stop a disease that is not present in the area.
Spraying will kill monarch butterflies which are already near endangered levels and are still in the area due to warm weather.
people such as myself with auto-immune disease are particularly vulnerable to toxic chemicals. What about our health rights? You risk our health for a "maybe, possible" risk to others, that could be controlled in less invasive ways. I do not want dangerous chemical exposure to myself, my children, my property, or my community.
Do not spray these pesticides in San Diego is creates cancer and other unspeakable health issues especially for children - there are many less toxic alternatives available
We are in Perth, Western Australia and we face the same chemical assault because our state and local government authorities are spraying all our public open spaces with pesticides. We even have aerial spraying in urban areas for control of mosquitoes. We are told that all of this spraying is necessary and safe but no one has undertaken a comparative risk assessment to prove that the pesticides do not pose a greater risk of Pesticide Illness (with flu-like symptoms) cancers, neurological diseases and birth defects to our communities. Numerous independent scientific and medical reports are being ignored by our authorities. There is under reporting of pesticide related illness and no laboratories in Australia are set up to test human samples for trace levels of the commonly used pesticides. Meanwhile our Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has ignored our "Call for a Royal Commission into the Use of Pesticides and Harm to Public Health" and signed another trade deal to allow more cheap pesticides into our country. We have a global pollution problem that is largely fueled by a toxic pesticide industry supported by our heads of government' against the public interest. This must stop! Please see the Change.org petition: "Prime Minister Turnbull Stop Toxic Trade Deals" and visit facebook Pesticide Action Group WA. Wishing you best of luck in stopping this global scourge on communities.
Travesty , junk science , and probably illegal. Stop spraying us!!!
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SAN DIEGO RESIDENTS AND CONCERNED CITIZENS: Help us stop spraying of pesticides in neighborhoods in San Diego. Our homes, parks, schools, streets and churches are being sprayed by San Diego Vector Control. We need to come together to let them know we do not support this action. SD Vector Control would like to spray toxic pesticides with ingredients known to be carcinogenic and neurotoxic (references below) around our homes, where we walk our dogs, where our children play and learn, and on the local fruit and vegetables we grow and eat. This spray will get into our water supply and affect every aspect of our lives. Bees will die. Fish will die. Butterflies will die. SDVCD would like to do this to residents this 2016 season utilizing our own tax dollars to poison us. In sum, we are asking that you sign this petition to show support of alternative mosquito abatement processes. Some alternative solutions are: 1. Launch an aggressive and successful outreach program that will deliver the most important message, "check for and dump standing water" (the single most effective tool) 2. Work with cities to reduce the standing water as it relates to infrastructure (which spraying will never be able to address). 3. If needed, use non-toxic methods to eradicate mosquitoes. We would like to work together with SD Vector Control to come up with a plan that can garner the support of the community it serves. We support non-toxic solutions. Spraying will affect us for generations to come. It takes one second to sign this petition to prevent the beginning of spraying in San Diego County, CA but it can take years to stop it once it's started and DECADES to clean up our environment after its been done. Please "Like" us on our Facebook page “Non Toxic San Diego" https://www.facebook.com/groups/1786277901586719/ THANK YOU! PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION - sign once and share twice! References: Pesticides are one of the five worst threats to children's health. The other four are lead, air pollution, environmental tobacco smoke, and drinking-water contamination. - Journal of Environmental Health, May 1998, vol.60, no.9, p.46 (2)-http://www.nrdc.org/health/kids/ocar/chap5.asp This article looks specifically at the impacts that toxins, such as pesticides, specifically organophosphates, carbamates, and pyrethroids can have on children."Organophosphates and carbamates are toxic to the nervous system, and some of the pyrethroids are believed to be toxic to the reproductive system and disruptive to endocrine function.” - Contemporary Pediatrics, February 2001, vol.18, issue 2, p.110 (11). pyrethroids, which are used in most insecticides, can persists in soil for weeks or months. -http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/25677.pdf One of the *non-insecticide* ingredients in most aerial spray application products, Piperonyl Butoxide (PBO), is incredibly toxic, and has been linked to delayed mental development in children in two major studies at Columbia and Duke Universities. PBO also can persist for weeks before breaking down in the environment under certain conditions-http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/127/3/e699http://www.ewg.org/news/news-releases/2012/05/31/duke-study-confirms-toxicity-widely-used-pesticide-ingredientNeurotoxic pesticides blamed for the world's bee collapse are also harming butterflies, worms, fish and birds, said a scientific review that called for tighter regulation to curb their use.-http://phys.org/news/2014-06-pesticides-threaten-birds-bees-alike.html#jCp “The method of application can also change the risk of pesticide poisoning. Aerial applications have the highest potential risk for causing bee kills. Most bee kills occur when the pesticide drifts or moves from the target area into the apiary or onto crops attractive to the bees. The outcome of drift can be catastrophic.” - The University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
September 13, 2016
September 11, 2016
San Diego Vector Control thinks they can poison our neighborhoods without a fight. We are creeping toward 250 signatures and we need to hit that mark right now to show them we are watching. Send this link to your neighbors immediately so we can ramp up the pressure on these bureaucrats.
Reached 100 supporters
September 9, 2016
97 Comments
Spraying of pesticides will not solve this zika virus problem. It will kill beneficial insects, and potentially create a resistant strain of mosquitos.
As a grandmother, a beekeeper and one concerned about what kind of legacy we leaving our children, the pesticides need to be stopped. They are poisoning our foods, weakening our immune systems and causing many health problems. Stop the genocide!
As a biologist and environmentalist, I think it is not only unnecessary but also very detrimental to spray toxic pesticides in an attempt to stop a disease that is not present in the area.
Spraying will kill monarch butterflies which are already near endangered levels and are still in the area due to warm weather.
people such as myself with auto-immune disease are particularly vulnerable to toxic chemicals. What about our health rights? You risk our health for a "maybe, possible" risk to others, that could be controlled in less invasive ways. I do not want dangerous chemical exposure to myself, my children, my property, or my community.
Do not spray these pesticides in San Diego is creates cancer and other unspeakable health issues especially for children - there are many less toxic alternatives available
We are in Perth, Western Australia and we face the same chemical assault because our state and local government authorities are spraying all our public open spaces with pesticides. We even have aerial spraying in urban areas for control of mosquitoes. We are told that all of this spraying is necessary and safe but no one has undertaken a comparative risk assessment to prove that the pesticides do not pose a greater risk of Pesticide Illness (with flu-like symptoms) cancers, neurological diseases and birth defects to our communities. Numerous independent scientific and medical reports are being ignored by our authorities. There is under reporting of pesticide related illness and no laboratories in Australia are set up to test human samples for trace levels of the commonly used pesticides. Meanwhile our Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has ignored our "Call for a Royal Commission into the Use of Pesticides and Harm to Public Health" and signed another trade deal to allow more cheap pesticides into our country. We have a global pollution problem that is largely fueled by a toxic pesticide industry supported by our heads of government' against the public interest. This must stop! Please see the Change.org petition: "Prime Minister Turnbull Stop Toxic Trade Deals" and visit facebook Pesticide Action Group WA. Wishing you best of luck in stopping this global scourge on communities.
Travesty , junk science , and probably illegal. Stop spraying us!!!
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Spraying of pesticides will not solve this zika virus problem. It will kill beneficial insects, and potentially create a resistant strain of mosquitos.