Comments on: Tell EPA to Minimize the Impact of Pesticide Drift, Comment by March 5

By: linda weiss

linda weiss — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:49:05 +0000

Please stop the spread of pesticide induced NCDs. I was poisoned when a neighbor’s lawn chemicals drifted on to my property in 1985 and I’ve paid for it ever since by being disabled. The World Health Organization is now seeking to prevent NCDs from using so much of our dollars for hospitilizations, pesticide-induced Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and cancers and all other forms of NCDs, so now is an ideal time to stop the lawncare pesticides and switch to IPM management. I lost my human right to breathe clean air ever since the poisoning, and its forty years already, and every neighbor for blocks has a spray truck pull up. I’ve logged 400 applications to lawns around me with as many as 25 homes a day, get applications + all the trees in the yards. Tomorrow, 5 doors away, they are going to spray the entire outside of a two story home and their lawn for imaginary bugs in case there should be any around. This is insanity, and I have no place to hide. Please stop the sprays a.s.a.p.—it’s the only humane thing to do.

By: Erin Thomas

Erin Thomas — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:49:18 +0000

So long as the American people continue to blindly purchase pesticide laden foods, farmers will continue to use the pesticides in the manner that has the lowest fiscal impact. As the daughter of a non-organic farmer, and a person that only purchases Organic foods, I am fully aware of the double edged sword that farmers face. People want clean cheap food, but they can either have clean food or cheap food but not both. It takes more manpower to farm without chemicals, and manpower is one of the most expensive components of farming. If you don’t like pesticides in your food, don’t buy food with pesticides in it. If you don’t want to be sprayed with pesticides, PROTEST IT! Pesticides require farmers to get permits to spray, find out what permits have been applied for in your area. AVOID these areas, if that requires that your children miss school than so be it. Safety first, You are responsible for your own destiny. If enough kids miss school for Pesticide days then the schools will take notice. PS does anyone else notice that there was not one peep out of the news about these requlations? What good is the news anymore? They only tell me who robbed the local Rob and Run..Tell me what the long term impact of that is?

By: Dr. S. Edward Law / Univ.of GA

Dr. S. Edward Law / Univ.of GA — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:11:49 +0000

What impedes US agriculture from more widely implementing decade-old improved spray-application technology which permits HALVING of pesticide active ingredients dispensed into ecosystem with proportional reduction in off-target drift? For issues raised with EPA see public comment/video from University of Georgia on website http://www.regulations.gov under ID No. EPA-HQ-OPP-2009-0628-039.

By: James Royal

James Royal — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:29:26 +0000

I live in Needham, MA. My abutting neighbors use pesticides like they are using flour in a cake. I have two young children. 100′s of children walk on sidewalks past my house to school each day laden with visible pesticide granules. I have links to 100′s of studies that strongly indicate that pesticides cause or trigger autism, ADHD, Parkinson’s, diabetes, asthma etc etc. These ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS are destroying our DNA in-utero, during critical development and later on by the sheer body burden of these chemicals. Look at the data and you will find that suburbs that have green lawns and huge parks, golf courses treated chemically have more MS, diabetes etc. etc. While the rest of the world is banning these poisons you folks are engaging in a fiendish experiment that will ultimately destroy the human genome.
PLEASE BAN OR PUT A MORATORIUM ON ALL PESTICIDES linked to these diseases before its too late.

By: Jessica Turrin

Jessica Turrin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:05:56 +0000

I support all of EPA’s efforts to reduce the amount of pesticides used in farming in order to protect the health, saftey and welfare of those that live adjacent to these areas and for the sustainable future of our agrigultural and food systems.

By: Phyl Morello

Phyl Morello — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:31:35 +0000

Will you PLEASE help stop the overuse of pesticides in our America?????????????