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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <london@metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: HR1504 and S910 (fwd)
  • Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:21:41 -0400 (EDT)


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 10:58:50 EDT
From: Twittman@aol.com
To: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu
Subject: HR1504 and S910

Hi Sanet Members,
Anyone know more about the two bills below. I saw this on the Biotech list
and am wondering if there is more to this story.
Best,
Thomas Wittman


HR1504 and S910 pending in the US Congress and Senate right now despite any
original good intent are bad law that will repress biological control
alternatives to pesticide, in the guise of "protecting the environment".
Callous bureaucrats are turning the environmental community upon itself to
protect the pesticide marketplace. Biological control agents are not "plant
pests" no mater how badly the pesticide industry would like them labeled that
way. Releasing beneficial insects are not "biological invasions" that are
more environmentally damming than pesticide use. They are instead a vast and
underutilized natural rescue belonging to all Americans. Please while there
is still time request a copy of this legislation and send your comments to
your elected officials, also Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture, and
President Clinton.

Passage of this legislation will turn the federal government into "Ladybug
Police" that will warn against the possible environmental damage from
ladybugs, lacewings and predatory mites while failing to protect the public
especially children and women from pesticides adequately. Biological control
has one of the best health, human safety, environmental records and economic
efficiencies of any human enterprise. These laws will create thousands of
new roadblocks in every state, giving legal authority to block projects to
replace the ambiguous authority that has been used for years to keep
pesticides in schools, our homes, workplaces and crops. These bills will
also effectively and negatively impact the food quality protection act (FQPA)
that is reducing the amount of pesticides in our children's food supply. The
public and the common good will not be protected from harm. However I
believe that access will be officially denied to safer, more affordable
sustainable alternatives, this will be the practical result of these deeply
flawed proposals. Stop this deceptive legislation now.

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