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An interesting article came to my attention that sparked a bit of a debate over on the Pirates’ list. I thought you might be interested in what I came up with. This is the sort of story that could turn into a book. Are you listening LA Times SF Gate? Or is this doomed to be on indymedia forever?l

Don’t you just love a document that doesn’t even give the binomial name of a creature? This way, if you only look up LBAM, you get the party line. Figures. Nonetheless, there are some good clues in there.Turns out that /Epiphyas postvittana/ is virtually indistinguishable from the coddling moth, and has much the same behaviour, uses the same pheromone and has been around since dirt was new. The difference is that it’s a non-native invasive pest from Australia, one that is subject to quarantine regulations, as have already been imposed by Mexico and Canada. Uh oh — NAFTA alert!Now I see why they’re so concerned at BushCo — it happened as a result of shipping containers not being examined — you know, like your car is every damn time you enter the state. Well, apparently /Epiphyas postvittana /doesn’t respond well to the version of BT that is most commonly used against butterfly and mother species: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1440-6055.1996.tb01407.x , so they can’t use trap crops. Fair enough. I’ll bet if they’d asked the good citizens to hang pheromone traps in the woods, they’d have responded.Still nothing on SOD, other than ineffective quarantines. You can forgetabouta any action on Filbert Blight. Thankfully, Oregon and Washington still don’t matter (shhh, don’t tell anyone). As for the governator, well, he’s no scientist and big ag has a powerful lobby because they’re ALL owned by mining (phosphorous and potassium) and oil (nitrogen) interests — they won’t be running out of money any time soon. If you can’t rely on your experts, who can you rely on. In the curious bi-polar atmosphere of American politics, if the right and the left both agree, then it must be good.The effect of the importation of this species is that we’ll be forced to eat our own produce. You can see why the USDA had to act.Data sheet on Checkmate as provided by the manufacturer: http://www.suterra.com/.docs/pg/10159Pheremone disruption *is* a resonable IPM strategy, when targeted at the actual population, not when doused over a human population. The real problem here is the delivery method, which is a microencapsulated plastic (microbeads) that include several less than inert ingredients, as well as the assertion that they don’t biodegrade and release their contents until they dry out, like they really don’t in your lungs. From a 2007 article (though I am generally loathe to quote yoga instructors), after Santa Cruz was sprayed with a very similar chemical (they call the delivery free flowable, as it pertains to the application equipment) without prior warning or public comment:

/The micro-capsule is made out of what are falsely called “inert”
ingredients. Again, the EPA brags that these “inert” ingredients are
mostly ionized water. However, they forget to tell you that there
are also two known dangerous toxic substances in the inerts -
tricaprylyl methyl ammonium chloride (TMAC) and polymethylene
polyphenyl isocyanate (PPI)./

TMAC is known by may names: http://www.chemindustry.com/chemicals/954715.html

It is brought to you by Monsanto: http://yosemite.epa.gov/oppts/epatscat8.nsf/ReportSearchView/353C73737C81153E85256930004EDD40 My favorite line: “A MOTH-PROOFING CHEMICAL INTENDED FOR ARMY WOOL CLOTHING” hahahahahaha I’ll bet. Careful the white froth effect.

PPI also has many trade names: http://hazmap.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/hazmap_generic?tbl=TblAgents&id=1087 and http://www.pcl.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/PO/poly%5B(phenyl_isocyanate)-co-formaldehyde%5D.html Since its not listed by the EPA and the voluntary studies have not been submitted, no one knows anything about this other than painters with asthma. “Sucks to your asthmar,” sez the EPA. FDA sez they’ve got something for it, but it’ll eat your liver.

So, they get it through by saying that they’ll give you something to really cry about if this “relatively benign” chemical is allowed, in the form of pesticides that have been well-documented (painted on immigrant babies) to cause major harm. The real harm here is the ability of a federal organization to control fruit and vegetable production in a localized and non-taxable economy. I expect, though I can’t find the information, that there is a front company, owned by some friends of the BushCo, who make the delivery system. You know, sort of like Rummy, Regan and Aspartame in 1981 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8N0z8stino ).

This, coupled w/ the prozac and bc pills in the water, has become quite the chemistry experiment. Now, you can’t even collect the rainwater. Take that liberal California. I bet you a viscous dachshund that we won’t see it flown over San Diego.

Rebel. Grow your own ( http://www.territorialseed.com/prod_detail_list/2 ). The tinfoil is good for wrapping around the top wires around your garden, letting them flap in the breeze and frighten off birds. Corvids won’t fall for it for very long, but the lesser birds are wary long enough for your crop to get out of the seedling or bud stage.

If anyone knows who owns the patents on the encapsulation technologies, please let me know. There’s an article brewing here.

-MR

Here’s a PDF summarizing the official position of the responsible agency: http://tinyurl.com/24q6e3 as if coddling moths are something new: http://www.naturalnews.com/022816.html

I am occasionally glad I don’t live in ‘Frisco.
-MR