the guide to the reduced pesticide risk is a draft resolution. sponsors melanie nutter, speaker chris geiger and pest management program manager. this is a discussion and action item. >> director nutter. >> i passed out to you, i know this is an annual item so this is your time to [inaudible]. >> thanks. >> thank you, commissioners. and thank you, melanie. [laughter] >> i get to say that. so, this is indeed an annual item and my intention tonight isn't so much to give you a complete survey of what our program does as to, number one, give you an update on pesticide use trends on city properties, which is something i was not able to do last year because we were having data problems with our database. now the database is usable finally. i'm very happy about that. and, so, i can give you some of those numbers. and also, of course, it's our annual chance to revise and improve what we call the reduced risk pesticide list. for the benefit of commissioner wan and others, who might not have heard my whole spiel last year, i'm give you the briefest descrip

the other big driver in pesticide use in the city really is tournament golf. and this is kind of a separate issue on its own. i think what we've concluded in the ipm program is you really can't have tournament golf without having a lot of pesticide use. and, so, it's a community decision as to whether we want to have these deals with golf tournaments. i know there are a lot of benefits as well from the tournaments themselves, but i have to sort of treat that as a separate category of pesticide use. and to their credit, the rec/park golf team has been very, very committed to finding every way we possibly can to reduce pesticide use at harding park golf course. the -- i think that -- i also should explain we don't put public health pesticides in here because that is something for moe mosquitox, for example, that we really can't control. ~ it's something that is driven by mosquito outbreaks, west nile virus outbreaks, various public health issues, and also those are almost universally very low toxicity products. they are mike robial products that are in storm dra

so, is it really worth this much pesticide use in order to do that? so, really, those are my two comments. number one, is it worth it to do the natural areas with so much pesticide? and number two, the database still needs help and, you know, to the extent that i personally can be of any assistance, i would like to offer chris that i would do so. thank you. >> thank you. any other members of the public? seeing none, public comment is closed. you know, it sounds like, ms. bose, give notice of the meetings in the conversations, that's maybe a good forum. and thanks for coming and sharing with us. as long as there is a forum, you're notified and able to engage on all these. at a minimum that's a good thing. please don't hesitate to keep us up to speed. any other questions? just one quick observation. looking at the pie graph, man, that golf is really -- so, just a quick question for chris. why do people play golf? just kidding. withdraw the question. [laughter] >> 80% last period of all pesticides from golf. any other questions? so, this is an action ite

lexmark ranks last in pesticide production management and reporting. this is the right to change the creek area and critique mcclintock pesticides and concrete measures to reduce pesticide content and product labeling apart from tx my mom to stay and rt mart were also cited for lack of transparency the survey for the discovery px marking ranked last in customer satisfaction with welcomed and e mart ranking second and third to last respectively. in response smyth said its sources organic produce directly to inform and protect your farm which means it's good use is strictly monitored greenpeace is calling on just getting used to implant source management controls and concrete measures for reducing pesticide has appeared in context. hong kong media mogul sir run run shaw died at eight hundred seven that is almost tender and seven. he introduced a hollywood filmmaking to hong kong and promptly on me off from musicals and going for john rossi into the mainstream. his stalinist television broadcasts limited in nineteen sixty seven and sold off russ made by t

the first is on the natural areas pesticide use. natural areas has been using a great amount of herbicides by whatever measure n. 2013 it used more tier 1 herbicides than san francisco rec and park put together excluding the golf course which is a special case. also is treating [speaker not understood] golf course, not all the other golf courses. and that's a special case because of the contract that harding is under. ~ i'm going to try and show you two graphs. 2011 to 2013 are derived from the original [speaker not understood] documents. we know the department of the environment has been working very hard to track pesticide use with its new database that was installed in 2010. we have spent a lot of hours trying to reconcile them and we found that the database still has significant data problems with months of missing data and we wanted to work with chris geiger and his team to improve the accuracy. but [speaker not understood] are the most accurate representation of herbicide use for the natural areas. people are particularly sens

produce pesticides or can withstand exposure to pesticides. they sell more pesticides. the gmo machine was designed for. >> we get these buzz words marketingwise. i mean organic. what exactly does organic mean? my daughter unfortunately, suffers celiac so we're looking for gluten-free. as someone wrote, why label something as gluten-free. paint thinner is gluten-free. are you going to put that down as gluten-free as well? i go bigoing with genetically modified free foods, aren't you pandering to some degree to the public, mark? >> the epa was against mandatory labeling of genticily modified ingredients because they consider it misleading. it is misleading because there's no science behind it. >> mark at the same time japan and china have both sent u.s. crops back whether it was wheat or corn most recently because they contained genetically modified variations. so, if it's a big enough issue in those markets, shouldn't americans at least give serious thought to whether they should think through this kind of exposure here at home? >> both of those issues were specifically

and other pesticides d.d.t. was first introduced during world war two it was used for insect control in crops and livestock production from plants diseases or insects was also used to fight instead carry diseases like malaria. it's new research highlights the role environmental factors may play in causing diseases of other health issues that makes it all the more important that we fight for a healthier and safer environment. crazy alert t.v. audiences and twitter jokesters made the site if i channel movie shark nato a runaway hit this summer plotline was simple and ridiculous if you need a refresher here's a clip from the trip. cam going straight up or you get. to just wait here with sharks to rain down. on many critics land is ridiculous promise but it turns out that the whole idea of animal tornadoes isn't actually that far fetched after all a small twister hit the town of show. england earlier this week resident shirley blade told the b.b.c. that the storm lifted neighborhood cats high into the air making wha

in twenty eleven spending it on three types of pesticides that are widely believed to be harmful to bees. if obama was pasta iran's production in the spine forty percent the protective effect. in two thousand and six forty five percent of all articles or have been destroyed. you're almost half of them. he started the mausoleum noted that most of them went to gather pollen in the fields of endeavor came by today. we sat down at the fashion one day i found a whole pile of dead bees on the ground. when heinz with beets lettuce deciding to lose with three types of incense the signs containing unique to know it's a honey poisonous substance of these sitting is the best country in the european union to ban its use on all types of vegetation. now from a slight bend your knees or thrice week it is on its port of call from patients for photo proof of that. the program has included it we noticed a downturn in production of one group of local schools the ones they found these past two stories especially the one that reads her stories. it bit them on a corn field. why don't we have a way of living a

all grown without pesticides. all the food in this store is focused on safety. it's a small farmer's market in beijing. the prices are two to five times higher than the regular supermarket, but sales have been strong. >> translator: all the vegetables here are very good. without chemicals, i can taste a difference. chicken can make a good soup stock. i don't mind that it costs more. >> reporter: the store owner graduated in agriculture in the united states. inspired by growers markets abroad, she and her friends began three years ago to enlist farmers around beijing to grow produce naturally. she wants to change how food producers and consumers think. she wants to work toward a new age of food safety. >> because i believe there needs to have a platform for organic producers, and consumers should meet and discuss what kind of food systems china needs to have. >> reporter: farming without pesticides requires much time and effort from the grower. so not so many farmers work without chemicals yet. xian's first step was to gather together farmers who agreed to grow v

pesticides are god's greatest gift made by man. >> all i ate was pesticides and preservatives my whole childhood. and look, i am fine. >> are you in a barber shop quartet. >> and there was nothing talking about the gmo products that a are made with chemicals that when you ingest them they then make the chem trails activate. >> if you get vaccines -- >> don't get me started. >> the tri-lateral is through the engine on the council of foreign relations and run by the aluminati. controlled. >> by the muslim brotherhood. >> thank you very much. >> can we point out that lebron was not holding that net anywhere near regulation height. >> anyone at this table except greg could have dunked on that. >> you have to come after me on that? we were doing a story on michelle obama. i thought we were safe. oh, greg is short. i think we all know that i am short. >> just a reminder. >>> has the old ford been restored? toronto's crack-smoking mayor is back and backier than ever. he was ranting incoherently in a jaw may can't -- jamaican accent. the video was taken early tuesday morning in a steak house.

a pesticide has been detected in nine different products. levels are said to be up to 1.5 billion times the allowed limit. people can easily buy the chemical in gardening shops. it's used to kill mice, aphids, and other insects. police sent investigators to the factory over the weekend. they suspect someone may have contaminated the foods before packaging, possibly on several occasions. >>> a woman in a city devastated by the 2011 tsunami in northeastern japan is restoring a little bit of life before the disaster smeep and her colleagues have collected thousands of photographs from the debris. many are pictures of people lost in the disaster. and are the only images of them that exist. so the woman has made it her mission to get the photos into the hands of their owners. >> reporter: the people of ofunato in northeastern japan suffered badly during the tsunami more than two years ago. more than 400 people died, and around 4,000 homes were destroyed. even now, many locals live in temporary housing units. >> translator: it looks like him. >> r

. >> pesticides are clearly poisonous. and it should be obvious to us that if they kill insects that they are going to have the possibility of hurting us. >> in your kitchen cabinet, if you opened up the doors and you counted up all the tin cans in there, all of them are going to be lined with bisphenol a, unless they're labeled that say they're not. >> pcbs might be in plastics, might be in cups, might be in containers that we put in our microwaves, might be perfectly safe when they are first put on the shelf, but quite dangerous once they start to break down. >> what we have is chemical companies that have created products that have contaminated literally every living thing on the planet. >> i think that the corporations who are profiting from this really have run away with our system. >> industrial chemical pollution begins in the womb. >> everything that we're bringing into our bodies if we choose to have children, we actually pass that right on through to a developing child. >> some of these chemicals we know can cros

all of the evidence pointed to the use of pesticides, which at the time were loosely regulated. fastr decided to go on a to recommit himself to this boycott and particularly around the unregulated use of pesticides in the fields and on farmworkers. he told nobody in the first two days. after a few days, his wife figured out what was going on. at that point, people started to slowly rally around him. the ufw workers in a few co-supporters came to where he fasting at the compound. >> describe what happened over those 36 days. >> at the time, press secretary was lorena parlee into his close to cesar and a been working with him for a number of years and should begin videotaping as much as she could of all of the activity around his fast. she had unprecedented access and intimate access to him and his chamber and the interactions he had with the ufw staffers, with family, with doctors. what she captured was some raw material that showed visible decline in his health every day as the fast progressed. when i got the footage and started looking at it, he became very clear that there was

since bedbugs can become resistant to pesticides, the team maintains its own supply of insects to testif you're afraid of bugs, this story gets even more cringe-inducing. the bedbugs need to be fete. >> all i do is i put a stocking in here, a panty hose and put my hand inside of there. and they poke their straw through the panty hose and into my pores. i feed about 30,000 of them at a time for half an hour every two weeks. i know it sounds nuts and crazy, but we decided about three years ago that we either have to figure out how to kill bedbugs or get out of the business completely so we don't have to worry about a lot of call backs and complaints from people. the downside is somebody's got to feed these things every two weeks to keep them alive and keep them multiplied. >> matt washes his arm to minimize his chance of reacting to the bites and escapes feeding time without any physical markings. but one of matt's customers is not so lucky. may 2012. after being ravaged by bedbugs in his home for two years, the man finally calls the team to save him from being devoured in his home. >> h

in number of applications of pesticides used by 200-400 percent. the data is available to 2012. by the way, it has not database for the documents. the second chart compares the herbicides used for all the departments. it includes the golf courses with the use of the nature areas program and to have the complete picture, you have to control the land of the san francisco which is -- but to have the picture, you have to multiply it by three. the use of that. it will give you about five more the use than the other parts combined. last week there was a use n of herbicides. i don't know what's happening. last month, mid-november there was the use of herbicides in it was milestone. you have an article in milestone. it's so bad that the crops were ruined by the manure from the animals which eat hay by herbicides. we have it in our parks, in older parks. it's this program is very costly. i don't have much time. happy holidays! i hope they will stop doing this. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> my name is robin share. i would like to say it's the founder of friends of camp mather.

they are exposed to pesticides over long periods of time. >> have you ever felt sick because of chemicals on the plants? >> um, ya, actually i have. >> you can actually see em' on the plants. extreme poverty can leave few other options. laredo, texas, sits just inside the us border with mexico. this school has some of the highest numbers of migrant farmworker children in the area. they travel with their families to other states to work for part of the year changing schools in the middle of a term. like mariana's daughter, anabella, who works in the onion fields. at 14 years old, she is in the 7th grade, and behind in school. she struggles with reading. >> when i get to one school, like, they're teaching me like something else in one school, in another school they're teaching something else, so that like how hard it is to catch up. right now i'm only failing 2 classes. >> noemi ochoa advocates for school children who are also migrants workers. she began working in the fields with her own migrant parents at age 9. >> my dad, every day, 4 o'clock in the morning, my dad, (knocking) "levantesa

. >> there's a lot of different factors, you have to look at the environment, mal pesticides. >> from her farm koby gathers male sperm from drones that can survive harsh conditions and will inseminate queens showing resistance to pests. fitness. >> the process is quick. it does take a lot of squeezing to get enough sperm for insemination. >> i'll role the fingers. >> that's the semen. >> you can see the >> it placed in a tube. >> how much will you give her. >> one turn, 10 microlitres. basically 10 drones worth. the goal is to have - i want gentle productive bee, but bees resistent to pests and problems we have, which is a tall order. i'll spend the rest of my life trying to do that. >> koby is not alone. in paulman washington, members of her team are breeding the >> >> what are these? >> voucher specimens. this is egypt collected in 1998, and bees from australia. >> for years they've gathered diverse stocks of bee sperm from italy, turkey and the kauk cos mountains to build diversity. >> this is the isolated mating station. we use it to control the mating of the bees. the colonies th

but, usually, cheap food is not nutritious, and so you're talking about food that's produced with pesticides and herbicides, foods that have antibiotics in them, like the meats, and the poultry, and so you're -- and foods that have a lot of salt and sugar, so what you're doing is you're feeding people -- you're feeding people, but you may not pay up front, but you'll pay out back. >> isn't that better than the alternative of not feeding people. one i eight americans are looking to cut back costs and what's wrong with them saying i can pay $2 for this per pound for this beach or i can go $6 for the organic for my family so they can ever any meat, we go with the less expensive version. >> i think some of that is in issue of not knowing how to cook. now, there are countries around the world that think of protein as a combination of grains and vegetables. we consider sort of that meat source as the only source of protein, but it's not true. we have to learn to cook the foods that are really affordable. >> is non-organic food bad for you? >> well, i believe it is, because i'm -- i don't want food

the grocery manufacturers association, genetically modified plants have helped reduce the use of pesticidesround the world. but do pest resistant plants sound a bit like frannen food? >> there could be increased levels of naturally occurring toxins or allergens. there could be decreased nutritional status, right? or you could create new toxins, new allergens. >> reporter: hanson says inable studies, gmos have caused tumors and deficiencies in the immune system and organs. how do you know if the food you are eating is genetically modified? the european union requires owl gmo food to be labeled, the fda does not so far. >> the u.s. does not recognize that that's different than conventional breeding and does not require safety studies before these products are allowed on the market. >> reporter: but parrot says there's nothing here to be concerned about. >> when it comes to people whose expertise is agriculture and plant genetics, it is a consensus. it's as safe as regular food. >> reporter: now if you want to know if your food is genetically modified, you can look for the organic label. nothi

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teaser really delusional has more inside their russian children's group the hospital is one of the pesticides hospitals in the country and the girls are both be treated here and now the nine year old received her injuries during the first blast that took place in a folder that on the twenty ninth of december both the girl and her mother have sustained injuries and deaths terror attack. at this second series aquatics although that less than twenty four hours later when december thirtieth. that took place on the total bust where both the mother and grandmother of the three month old baby were killed the girl was saddened that is an airport according to some of the doctors the careless and saved a fire blanket and which was wrapped with prevented her from receiving life threatening injuries and some debris that went flying. now in regarding the state of health of both girls the doctors i remain cautiously optimistic because their injuries are serious and so is that their condition. overall eighteen people have been brought in to moscow for treatment that these are some of the more serious cases

meanwhile, chemicalmaker dupont saw its profit double thanks to demand for pesticide and seeds. the company has been aggressively expanding its agriculture division, offsetting a volatile performance chemicals unit it plans to spin off. dupont is also announcing a stock buy back program. and ford's speeding past expectations thanks to record profits in north america. here's what ford cfo robert shanks had to say about it. >> this was a great year, one of the best in our history as you pointed out. so many accolades we could talk about. very strong year. and sets us up well for what we're going to do this year with the launch of new products including the new f series for that stronger growth and results in 15 and beyond. >> reporter: ford is planning to introduce 23 new vehicles worldwide in 2014. lastly, american airlines group. the newly created company posting stronger than expected profit and revenue as fares climbed and fuel costs fell. it's the first time american has reported since merging with u.s. airways, a move that helped parent company amr emerge from bankrupt last

it's sentenced a former employee of a food company in canton province to life in prison for putting pesticide and frozen dumplings the presiding judge said nguyen team carried out the premeditated crime he said the damage the health of fourteen people and cause substantial losses to the food company which closed its factory. japanese journalist and embassy officials were in the courtroom to hear the ruling. the case came to light in two thousand and eight to ten people in japan and for others in china fell ill after eating dumplings made by a kenyan food prosecutors accuse you of placing the dumplings with min ten min of folks. he admitted guilt in its first hearing last july. this case had a major impact on how the chinese government deals with food safety and its key roles in the helium of malta was in the province when the ruling came down using cold cold. he carried all inclined to protest against what he called poor working conditions. he will play in a pool which is among other things to do with three holes for the victims and often leniency. by the court rejected his request that was l

prosecutors accused lu yueting of lacing dumplings with a pesticide ingredient called methamidophos. he admitted to the charge in his first hearing last july, and apologized to the victims. >>> the incident shocked people in japan, which imports a lot of processed foods from china. at the time, it became a diplomatic issue between the two countries. >>> japanese diplomats have launched a protest with china and south korea over a monument dedicated to a controversial historical figure. ahn young guan, assassinated in 1909 a four-time japanese prime minister, hirobumi ito who was also japan's first resident general of korea. people in south korea see ahn as a hero who sacrificed himself for independence. south korea's foreign ministry announced on sunday the completion of a hall honoring ahn in harbin in northeastern china. the monument was built at the harbin train station. that's where ahn, a korean nationalist, shot dead hirobumi ito. at the time the korean peninsula was a protectorate of japan. it was annexed the following year. the japanese foreign ministry has launched a protest

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the man of poise pizzas and chicken nuggets with pesticides and triggered the recall of six million products. the pope whole story on our t dot com was one of the game in motion a section of our website we have footage of a mudslide sweeping through northwest argentina has killed four people with at least it's still missing and has led to mass evacuation. a snowy or russian winter occurs in either the few kilometers away from the subtropical black sea coast. the roar resort city of sochi located there is said to provide superb a white slopes for the winter olympics are keys to the most they've visited the mountain been used for the upcoming games be back the need to enjoy the day of extreme sports and hang onto your helmets but at that stage the internet seemed so sad looking at the signing competition for the sochi twenty fourteen and twenty games will be held to know what's up with the up staying all set in as i was up to sixteen. the he disagrees. to date. it's a different seat designed and built by french expats. it's now in its own pace not seen the bulk freestyle patel's and seventy s

you know, with fruits and vegetables it can reduce your exposure to pesticides. because the label says organic doesn't mean it's good for you. another slice of that organic chocolate cake, anyone? >>> one of the best parts of my job is being part of the "fit nation" triathlon challenge. we help regular viewers train for and race a triathlon. i never thought that i could do it myself. and now, i'm a triathlete. the road is tough but everyone who's ever joined us has completed this. something they thought impossible. hundreds of viewers sent in videos to our i-report site. but in the end, only six were chosen. >> i watched your video and i want to he officially welcome you to our 2014 "fit nation" triathlon team. >> oh, my god! are you serious? >> reporter: nearly everyone on our 2014 team has been through a major health crisis. >> i received my second hip replacement. >> i was diagnosed with stage three testicular cancer. >> i had a stroke. i had a hole in my heart and the clot passed through, went up to my brain. >> reporter: for others, the pain was emotional. >

factory has made about three thousand people sick the man poisoned pizzas and chicken nuggets with pesticides and triggered the recall of six million products we've got the whole story on our t.v. dot com. bust in the in motion section of our website we've got footage of a mudslide sweeping through northwest argentina it has killed four people with at least eight still missing and has led to a mass evacuation. of chasing after democracy egypt's interim government has decided to alter the political roadmap adopted after the july coup now the nation will hold presidential elections before parliamentary polls comes after days of violence across the country at least forty nine people were killed and hundreds were injured in street clashes marking the two thousand and eleven uprising anniversary most deaths were reported in cairo where police crackdown on anti-government protest rallies also this week a wave of deadly bombings shook the capital claiming six lives journalist mohammad sabri says both sides are at fault for the current situation. what's happening is we have we have a major grounds fo

. >> butas a consumer reporter i have covered 1,000 is scarce, lawn chemicals, the pesticide, a plastic bottles, the power lines, the mad cow david they had doubters about cigarettes that does not mean global warming is correct. >> for him to bring up cigarettes the scientists are filling the narrate. point of the lead scientist to it the endowment from barbra streisand to send --. john: i will take her money. >> it is insulting to imply its like tobacco. is the height of arrogance when you look at the actual data through government ruled south koreans foundations to have a full of vintage the foundation of the university bendy there isn't a comparon we have ientists who has reversed himself. john: many are genuinely worried. >> many of from the united nations but they just cave wall last year to say their mission is to make the case carbon dioxide to drive this global warming but many scientists have turned. swedish scientists said we would not even have noticed if not for modern instrumentation. the hockey sti is absurd it is statistical rubbish and hundreds oscientists have shown the

believed to be behind the poisoning of hundreds of people by filling pizzas and chicken nuggets with pesticides. and with less than two weeks left before the winter olympics kick off in sochi athletes across the globe are putting in extra training or just a buying once a went along to a practice session of russia's sled hockey team which will take part in the paralympics for the first time this year. behind me is a shy but a read this is where the paralympics will hold their eyes a sledge a hockey tournament now the women's a little pig hockey teams will also be playing raiatea in this arena this is a seven thousand multi-polar poses see a readout don't be surprised to hear the crowd chanting shy but the name means punch in russian the only question left to be on stood what's teams winning who received the olympic gold medal now here's some of the sportsmanship to expect that went to the previous intense and fast just the way ice hockey should be. thankful. and for the first time since the introduction of the sports in the olympics the russian team moved to be on the firm ground something that