Comments for CDFA announces Organic Products Advisory Committee vacancies at http://lakeconews.com , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://lakeconews.com Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:23:47 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/9330/928/#comment-13046 This concept of an Organic Products Advisory Committee sounds great, but CDFA Management already abuses and misrepresents their other advisory agencies. No matter what the advisory committees recommend, CDFA facilitates and sponsors programs that directly support the maximum use of toxic pesticides by corporate pesticide manufacturers in order to maximize the profits of those manufacturers and to subsidize their expenses. The CDFA has successfully brought the amount of toxic pesticides used in California to over 200 million pounds per year. That is about six pounds for every man, woman, child, fetus and pregnant woman EVERY YEAR. CDFA works for the benefit of these corporate chemical companies, for their own existence and power, but not for the growers in the agriculture community. CDFA does not protect the food supply or the environment. CDFA has contributed dramatically to the devastation of wild life, beneficial insects and bees that are so important for pollinating our food crops. Yet CDFA's public relations work and expenditures grow as they publicize themselves as the caretakers of our food, our environment and essentially our children's caretakers. CDFA fakes insects as dangerous to rob $$$billions of dollars of public funds for unnecessary programs, yet they are penny cheap in assisting growers with legitimate difficulties such as population intrusion and water problems. CDFA strong-arms small growers with unnecessary inspections and quarantines, and they threaten shutting down growers who don't play along. It is no accident or coincidence that A.G. Kawamura was not at the Florez hearing for his own agency's survival, reorganization or budget. Kawamura, the CDFA director, has delivered so many false statements to the press, public and agriculture community over so many years that he simply could not substantiate his comments or actions under the scrutiny of Senator Florez. Instead, they sent a lady with a smooth tongue who no longer works at the CDFA, but who works in marketing and relations and Florez could not hold her accountable, as he could had Kawamura been in the hearing. With Public relations and misrepresentations, CDFA is the master. Here is but one example of a recent sham by CDFA: http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/view/76798 The concept of CDFA sounds legitimate, but the activities of CDFA under Kawamura are not. - RobertF Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:57:57 +0100