Fw: Fairfax says No to State / New Plymouth slowly dying / Quebec to spray pesticides and more

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Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 10:53 PM

Subject: Fairfax says No to State / New Plymouth slowly dying / Quebec to spray pesticides and more

****************** Tale of Two Cities - Fairfax standing up for its citizens / New Plymouth slowly dying ****************** Fairfax votes to fight state over pesticide ordinance "It's interesting to note the Department of Pesticide Regulation communication followed on the heels of a letter from a trade association," Brecher said. "So one wonders whose interests the DPR is protecting. I don't think this is any coincidence." More: http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/01-05-17c.htm ****************************************************** THE POISONING OF NEW ZEALAND Walk down any street in New Plymouth and you will probably hear a mixture of coughing and spluttering. Look inside any school and there appears to be more special needs children than is the norm for a city the size of New Plymouth. It's often been said that everyone knows someone with a serious disease, whether it be cancer or multiple sclerosis. More: http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/01-05-16c.htm ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The Killer in Your Yard Each year we pour approximately 136 million pounds of pesticides on our homes, lawns, and gardens, which amounts to three times more per acre than the average farmer applies. More: http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/01-05-17.htm ****************************************************** Quebec considers a bill to spray pesticides on its citizens "to establish and implement a plan of action to control the insects in particular through the use of pesticides in any part of the territory of Québec." More: http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/01-05-17a.htm ****************************************************** Endocrine disruptors may be dangerous even at minute levels, EPA now says The solution, Swartz says, is to get the synthetic chemicals off the market and help industry invest in research and development to make the transition. "If you are not getting any health benefit [from these chemicals], and there is some evidence of health risk, then let's get this stuff off the market," he says. More: http://www.safe2use.com/ca-ipm/01-05-18.htm ****************************************************** WHAT CAUSES BREAST CANCER? Now a new, fully-documented book, by physician Janette D. Sherman, poses a fundamental challenge to all the doctors and researchers and health bureaucrats who have turned their backs on cancer prevention: "If cancers are not caused by chemicals, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and ionizing radiation, what are the causes? How else can one explain the doubling, since 1940, of a woman's likelihood of developing breast cancer, increasing in tandem with prostate and childhood cancers? More: http://www.safe2use.com/drsherman/life/montague.htm