Where dozens of students got sick after a pesticide was applied on a nearby seed corn plot weve seen example after example where weve had to rush children from a Public School to an e. R. Like the ones i work in across the state for severe area long problems we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants theres no question otherwise why would that a Chemical Company workers themselves be geared up and suited up what happened with Waimea Middle School was particularly egregious the state of Hawaii Department of agriculture does not do its job with respect to investigating complaints about pesticide drift and for years this has been the case it doesnt monitor the air it doesnt monitor the water it doesnt monitor the soil to make sure that pesticides are not leaving the fields and going into where people live and play and work. As a mom i think about what would i do. If i had to send my child to School Every Day alongside a field where i knew they were spraying pe
Got out and taking pictures when all this chaos was going on the school and students were being and they were spraying right in the feels right adjacent to. A follow up study was done on that 32. 00 page study the last 4 pages are the chemicals that they have found. We have shown an association between organophosphate exposure as measured by those metabolites in the mothers yearn during pregnancy and shortened just ation abnormal neonatal reflexes decreased Mental Development in the children at 2 years of age decreased i. Q. At age 7 and 10 years of age pervasive developmental disorder which is like or to some symptoms attention problems in school age or executive functioning in preadolescents and we have also shown that there are some populations of. That might be more affected than others i have virtue i think genetics. Protecting our kids from chemicals is a common sense thing that everybody can get behind leave points to examples in recent years of students getting sick from pestic
These chemicals have consequences they are major irritants theres no question otherwise why would that a Chemical Company workers themselves be geared up and suited up what happened with why im a middle school was particularly egregious the state of Hawaii Department of agriculture does not do its job with respect to investigating complaints about pesticide drift and for years this is been the case it doesnt monitor the air it doesnt monitor the water it doesnt monitor the soil to make sure that pesticides are not leaving the fields and going into where people live and play and work. As a mom i think about what would i do. If i had to send my child to School Every Day alongside a field where i knew they were spraying pesticides but i didnt know when and i didnt know what. We require our kids to go to school why dont we require these companies to at least inform the parents or the School Administrators what theyre spraying when and where. So we started to ask questions like well what ch
As a mum i think about what would i do if i had to send my child to School Every Day alongside a field where i knew they were spraying pesticides but i didnt know when and i didnt know what. We require our kids to go to school why dont we require these companies to at least inform the parents or the School Administrators what their spring when and where. So we started to ask questions like well what chemicals are they spray how do we manage runoff send an email to gary who is or asking him about it what we can do what how we could start a bill to get these Chemical Companies regulated so we can put a stop to it or at least find out whats going on this was a group of people and they were saying gerry cant you do something about this issue gary started meeting with representatives of the seed company as they deny the use of that which was a very potent herbicide thats questionable and banned in a lot of places because theyve clearly said theyre not using the and i was like well can you g
Didnt know what. We require our kids to go to school why dont we require these companies to at least inform the parents or the School Administrators what their spring when and where. So we started to ask questions like well what chemicals are they spray how do we manage runoff send an email to gary who is or asking him about it what we can do what how we could start a bill to get these Chemical Companies regulated so we can put a stop to it or at least find out whats going on this was a group of people and they were saying gary cant you do something about this issue gary started meeting with representatives of the seed company as they deny the use of that which is a very potent herbicide thats questionable and banned in a lot of places because theyve clearly said theyre not using the and i said well can you get records like how do we prove that theyre not using i choose the os for their records thats when everything started to get interesting. At the point that there was something goin