Video: Interview with Jay Feldman, Executive Director Beyond Pesticides #GMO #GMOS #LabelGMOs #RightToKnow #Yeson105 #Yeson92 #momsforlabeling #EPA #Enlist Our interview with Jay Feldman and Carol Van Strum is over an hour. A time code list is available in the YouTube comments so you can select short clips to view from the online video session. (it is at the bottom of this post) In the first 24 minutes, Jay introduced himself and gave a power point presentation. At 1:01:59, Carol talks about the EPA Enlist Duo press release issued last week stating - EPA registration is not a guarantee of safety ever. All it is...is a licence to kill. There is no protection for infants and children. Watch (1 hour 6+ mins) https://youtube/watch?v=gAmXnDyWN0A Time Code List (NOTE: numbers are hot links on YouTube) 1:16 Jay, can you give us an introduction about yourself, what you are working on and show us your ppt 1:26 EPA decision yesterday on Dows Enlist Duo 1:38 Ive been working on pesticide issues since the late 70s, traveled around the country meeting with farm workers and small farmers, collecting data for Workers Production Act - dol.gov/opa/aboutdol/lawsprog.htm 2:46 National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides - beyondpesticides.org/about/mission.php 3:14 2010 appointed to National Organic Standards Board - ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/nosb 3:50 Organic Foods Protection Act - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_Foods_Production_Act_of_1990 4:00 Agricultural Productivity Act of 1983 https://archive.org/details/agriculturalpro01legigoog 4:24 So much of what we use today is unnecessary 4:54 A thousand questions...concerned as a mother, consumer about what is going on with the organic standards 5:39 What is your view of Dows Enlist Duo approval by the EPA yesterday? 6:05 Power Point - Sets framework for a discussion 7:04 We have eliminated all synthetic chemicals from organic 7:43 We are trying to fit a pure system in a polluted world and we do com up against problems 8:12 Organic standard - Are these inputs necessary to produce food? 8:15 EPA is not even saying - Do we really need this Enlist Duo to grow a productive corn/cotton/soy crop? 9:07 Start of Power Point - Rachel Carsons Silent Spring 1962 - nrdc.org/health/pesticides/hcarson.asp CBS News Reports - Pesticides - DDT - Rachel Carson - Silent Spring 9:35 So much of environmental law today dont have cord values or principles associated with them. Can reduce the acceptable harm at a curtain rate. That is not a guiding principle. 10:11 Complex Biological Systems - Silent Spring quotes 11:23 The thing we dont hear much about when we talk about Rachel Carson is her warning not only on the biological hazards side, but on the got going guys on the alternatives... 11:40 Frame Work for moving forward 12:10 Assessing FIFRA epa.gov/agriculture/lfra.html How did the decision happen on the EPA approving Dows Enlist Duo? 1972 Law that is skewed toward the use of chemicals 12:37 Acceptable Risk - Harm us. Rick assessments are flawed 12:57 Standard of Unreasonable Adverse Effects, level of reproductive harm, birth defect in our kids, learning disabilities - are reasonable effects 13:26 How can anyone follow this label? Zero enforcement - like having the fox guard the hen house 14:06 Huge loop hole - Emergency Exemptions and Special Local Needs epa.gov/oppfead1/cb/csb_page/updates/2013/emerg-exemp-indianc.html 14:50 After 30 years, these decisions are going to roll along 15:03 Local Authority, cant forget about EPA - forced involuntary exposure 16:00 Im sitting up here in Ogunquit Maine the first town in the state to prohibit the use of pesticides on public and private property for turf, landscape, and outdoor pest management activities - beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=13570 16:35 Only 7 states allow their localities to regulate pesticide use on private land 17:29 We need alternative systems - you get a good law and people try and find the loop holes 18:27 Organic Standards Board - Cradle-to-Grave analysis 18:50 EPA did not look at the management systems in approving Enlist Duo yesterday 19:21 EPA does just the opposite - acceptable hazards 19:30 Advocacy for Pollinators in the FIFRA & Organic Framework 21:20 Spending a lot of time on pollinators 23:00 We need to root ourselves in our values.... 24:28 When I was a kid, my mom read Silent Spring....it made her angry...noway white bread... 25:52 7 states allow localities to restrict chemicals 26:25 Chem companies say weak path to the market place, DDT and the bird kills 26:52 Supreme Court Case. Casey, Wisconsin Christmas tree farmer, Federal law can protect its residents 27:33 Within a year, early 90s, the chemical industry went to every state legislature in the country, except 7, were able to get state law in place that preempts local jurisdiction from restriction pesticide use on local land 30:01 Search : preemption beyondpesticides.org/index.php Local control on pesticides 30:40 Mendocino, CA back in 80s 31:16 CA Pest Environmental Impact Report (PEIR). momsadvocatingsustainability.org/campaigns/opposition-to-the-statewide-pesticide-environmental-impact-report/ 32:30 Section 18, forcing a spray program on people 33:40 Carol Van Srum - Subject to the forest service spraying agent orange. We lived in it. 36:20 Found a lawyer to work for peanuts 38:07 EPA and industry knew 2,4-D contained dioxins, they swept all information under the rug, kept up the fiction 2,4-D was safe until EPA issued a data call in (1980) epa.gov/oppfead1/trac/dci.htm 39:27 13 years later one document was leaked to Greenpeace out of the EPA - 2, 4-D not having dioxins was a lie to begin with 40:43 Greenpeace letters - https://facebook/media/set/?set=a.588866694569103.1073741833.310099999112442&type=1 40:50 When the Enlist proposal came up, was trying to get anybody to demand the USDA and EPA, not act, until all that information was made public - the actual data was released 41:40 EPA does not test full formulations. They look at active ingredients. We call it FIFRA Shock 42:26 Inert ingredients - work of art, industry secrets, proprietary information,not disclosed 43:27 EPA response - 2, 4-D 44:04 Levels have not been reduced to zero 45:10 Threshold dose of carcinogens, we come up with these risk factors - adding margins of safety, math class - 10Xzero is zero. No scientific determination. 46:45 How do they get away with not testing the whole formulation? The way government works - they better bite off a piece they can crew on for awhile. 48:11 We are dealing with mixtures - Enlist Duo - just the tip of the iceberg. Less that a decade EPA has been looking at chemical families 50:16 Synergistic effects - beyondpesticides.org/infoservices/pesticidesandyou/Winter%2003-04/Synergy.pdf 50:49 Tyrone Hays has done the same thing - 2013 Forum: Protecting Life: From Research to Regulation (Tyrone Hayes) 51:01 Use to be a program that looked at the effects of pharmaceuticals and pesticides. But, that was shut down 51:24 Complex issue and we fight around the edges. Cant say this is safe for kids... 52:01 In the EU they passed a law that requires a precautionary approach - europa.eu/legislation_summaries/consumers/consumer_safety/l32042_en.htm 52:52 The precautionary approach is the only sane approach. This decision about Enlist - we are not asking the basic questions that any scientist would want to have answers to 53:27 In the US, it seems to be about who pays our officials the most money 53:44 We need a vision. We need to hold people accountable making these decisions 54:02 Start at home. Part of the plan - to get people disengaged, to get them to throw up their hands, saying it is worthless it is not worth our time to call USDA.... 54:33 Ive been at it for 35 years, I should know better, Im not giving up on the democratic process 55:35 Audrey Moore Intro - freedomfrompesticidesalliance.org 56:38 Oregon Right To farm and forest act - stop-oregon.org/?page_id=646 57:12 Complex issue - insidious corrupt issue 57:36 Law and regulations were written by the chemical lawyers - we the people are regulated, not the chemicals that harm us 57:56 Josephine County - Freedom from Pesticides Bill of Rights - freedomfrompesticidesalliance.org/measure17_63 (Measure 17-63) 58:30 Cancer in our valley 59:15 Poison Spring - blog.seattlepi/videoblogging/2014/07/14/e-g-vallianatos/ 59:50 How is the campaign going? 1:00:50 GMO=pesticide production. Glyphosate was no longer cutting it.... We need all the help we can get. freedomfrompesticidesalliance.org/ 1:01:59 EPA press release - protection of infants and children blog.seattlepi/videoblogging/2014/10/15/enlist-duo-discussion/ 1:02:25 EPA registration is not a guarantee of safety ever. All it is is a licence to kill. 1:02:40 Gov. is in pocket of industry 1:03:07 Risk assessment is a licence to kill. These people are committing premeditated murder. And nothing less.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 01:26:36 +0000
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