Trespass

• Would you be annoyed if you woke up one morning and found someone had sprayed paint on your home? I would. A law prohibiting that is called Trespass. 
• Do you think Trespass laws should be weaker? 

• Remember how Bush Grounded Crop Dusters after 9-11 because they recognized pesticides are potential Weapons of Mass Destruction. 

• "Chemical Spray may drift, even on a slight breeze, and can kill nearby plants and insects." (Invasive Exotic Plants in Monterey County, brochure by Monterey County Planning Dept #293-0274 4/98) 

• Pesticide is known to regularly drift and do damage at 1 to 2 miles. There is evidence of at least one instance of a pesticide traveling 50 miles and harming crops. 

• Monterey County's top goal for its Agricultural Commissioner's office in 2001 was education about minimizing pesticide spray drift. Monterey County 2001-2002 Budget pg 282 

• "Several widely used pesticides are regularly found far from their application sites at concentrations that significantly exceed acute and chronic exposure levels deemed "safe" by regulatory agencies.  
• Virtually everywhere pesticides are used, they drift away from their intended target and can persist for days and even months after application. These "secondhand pesticides," like secondhand cigarette smoke, can cause serious adverse health effects and are forced on others against their will." Secondhand Pesticides, PANNA 

• Pesticides have been measured in the air at eight (8) to 184 times Children's EPA Exposure Levels. Secondhand Pesticides, PANNA 

Monterey County is Number 1 .

But not in a good way. 
 
 

Pesticides are designed and applied to kill living entities
 
 

Informed Consent
 

• More than half of all California pesticide illnesses are caused by Pesticide Drift. 
• Pesticide Drift is non-consensual. 
• Pesticide Drift is uninformed. 

Cutting Pesticide Use in Half can Increase Yields and Farmer's Profits ! 
 

• Alternative Pest control practices could halve the use of chemical pesticides on 40 major U.S. crops without reducing crop yields.  
• Indonesia cut pesticide use on rice by 65% and yields increased by 15%. 
• Sweden cut pesticide use in half with virtually no decrease in harvest. 
• U.S. Farmers could raise their average income by about 9% by reducing their pesticide use by 50% and only raise retail food prices by about 0.2%. 

• HOPE respectfully requests you and your organization provide conceptual support for an Informed Consent Pesticide Safety Policy for our Monterey County General Plan.