Prevent California from allowing carcinogens on strawberries

[Guest guest]

Fight the corporate lobbies:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/green/detail?entry_id=62991 & tsp=1

 

To quote from the article:

In Sacramento, a pesticide so cancer-causing that it's often used specifically

to create cancer in rats for medical experiments was just approved for use on

the state's strawberry crop. The state's own Department of Pesticide Regulation

had advised in a report against approving the gas, methyl iodide. And 50 Nobel

prize winners asked the U.S. EPA not to approve it. (It did.)

 

The state is accepting public comment through June 14. There's a link there to

give input to California's Department of Pesticide Regulation. Send your

protest by email to mei_comments

 

If you want to copy and paste into an email the same message I sent, here it is:

 

To the Department of Pesticide Regulation:

 

What is the point of eating strawberries if they give you cancer?

 

Please do NOT allow methyl iodide to be put on strawberries. It is a pesticide

so cancer-causing that it's often used specifically to create cancer in rats for

medical experiments. California's own Department of Pesticide Regulation

advised in a report against approving the gas. And 50 Nobel prize winners asked

the U.S. EPA not to approve it.

 

DON'T APPROVE IT!!!!!! Thank you.