A lot of places theyve clearly said theyre not using the and i was like well can you get records like how do we prove that theyre not using those laws for the records thats when everything started to get interesting. At the point that there was something going on the more i dug into it the more troubling it became. So youre telling me like you cant get the records so he goes im submitting freedom of Information Department of agriculture 600. 00 in like 3 months but we got a list of 22. 00 different restricted use pesticides many of those are banned in other states and other in other nations and above all there was actually in 3 different forms. These companies have lied to me personally and directly as a Council Member about a number of questions live misled me they flat out lied and as we went through the process of these Community Meetings we slowly put together this bill bill to 401 this is serious serious stuff that deserves our attention turns to be deserves we dont was now. Its a
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 the 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
Recent years of students getting sick from pesticides used by farmers near schools this is really great and several incidents in 2008 in why man koichi 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 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
And where. So we started to ask questions like well what chemicals are they spray how do we manage runoff i said 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 young people and they were saying gary can 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 accion and i was like 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 going on the more i dug into it the more troubling it became. So youre telling me like you cant get the records so he goes im submitting freedom of Information Depa
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 their spring when and where. So we started to ask questions like well what chemicals are they spray how do we manage runoff. Email to gary who is are 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 young people and they were saying gary cant you do something about this issue gary started meeting with representatives of the seed company and they deny the use of that which is a very potent herbicide thats questionable and banned in a lot of places theyve clearly said theyre not using acha xen and i was like well can you get r