Re: pesticide industry is proposing to study the effects of pesticides on children by directly exposing test subjects

**&* M* <M*@PTD.net>**

Check and see if it's still a current issue. I beleive they announced they
were abandoniing the plan a week or so back because of massive negative
reaction.

---Mike McG

----- Original Message -----
From: "Laura Berman" <laura@foodshare.net>

To: "ACGA listserve" <community_garden@mallorn.com>

Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 2:28 PM

Subject: [cg] pesticide industry is proposing to study the effects of
pesticides on children by directly exposing test subjects
Here's a truly unbelievable, but unfortunately all too real and necessary,

action alert sent to me by 2 respected environmental activists. No need
for

me to repeat--read Doug's and Carole Rubin's words for yourself and then
go

to the online petition site to sign for yourself. That's what convinced me

that this isn't an urban hoax. The online petition site vets these things.

It's at

<http://www.PetitionOnline.com/NoCheers/>
Laura
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Hello all
URGENT PETITION!
Were it not for the fact that this came to me from respected
anti-pesticide

author Carole Rubin, I would not have believed it possible that the US

pesticide industry is proposing to study the effects of pesticides on

children by directly exposing test subjects to pesticides and studying the

effects! The study, to take place in Duval County, Florida, is called the

Children's Environmental Exposure Research Study -- CHEERS for short!
See Carole Rubin's letter below, and please circulate widely!!
Thanks,
Doug

Dear Friends and Family,
THIS IS URGENT!!!!
The EPA and the Bush administration is actually planning to test children
and  toddlers on the effects of pesticide exposure by PURPOSELY EXPOSING
CHILDREN  AND TODDLERS TO PESTICIDES, AND STUDYING THE RESULTS!
They are bribing the impoverished parents of the 'test subjects' with cash
and  camcorders.
This is not a joke.
It is disgusting, obscene, unconscionable and must be stopped.
Please sign the petition below, and e-mail it to ALL your friends, too.
This

is URGENT!
"Stop EPA from Testing Pesticides on Children"
hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition
service, at:
<http://www.PetitionOnline.com/NoCheers/>

Best wishes,
Carole Rubin
Green Thumb/Green Planet

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