Tell the EPA to keep toxic strawberries off America’s plates – Stop using the toxic methyl iodide!

Food Democracy Now

It’s springtime again and soon it will be summer and children across the country will be enjoying one of their favorite fruits — strawberries. Unfortunately, due to a poor decision last year by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation and outgoing Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, America’s children will continue […]

Methyl Iodide Pesticide Regulation to Have Negative Health Impact says DPR’s Own Scientist

Fuming: Bill Monning, center, with (from left) Paul Towers of Pesticide Watch, California State Grange President Bob McFarland and Dolores Huerta Foundation Vice President Sal Alvarez. Sara Rubin
By Sara Rubin
Monterey County Weekly
Science was “subverted” in the state Department of Pesticide Regulation’s approval of the strawberry fumigant methyl iodide, and its use is likely going […]