Thursday, June 10, 2010

24 Hours to Stop Cancer Causing Pesticide Approval - Act NOW

by Ellinorianne

I wrote about methyl iodide last night in eKos, which got very few eyeballs.  I think I buried the lede.  We need to do something about this and we have little time. You need to do something, even if you don't live in California, this needs to be stopped because California is the largest Strawberry producing State. So what's so awful about methyl bromide?  Well, it is a carcinogen, a neuro-toxin and anyone who studies it uses the utmost precautions, from gloves, to respirators and they want to spray this on the soil that we grow our food in!

continued at Daily Kos....