Pesticide Home Rule Petition
Request your town add the same Pesticide Home Rule Petition onto your town meeting Warrant in 2024 and 2025
to help reduce pesticides Cape-wide!
We all live above the same aquifer, after all.
Orleans citizens passed the Pesticide Reduction Home Rule Petition by 68% in October 2023 !
Please bring the above petition article to your Select Board with the request it be added onto the town Warrant to allow citizens to vote on it in 2024 and 2025. Having other Cape Cod towns join this mission makes the message stronger at The State House where it will become a Bill then go through committees to be signed, then ultimately to our Governor Healey to sign into law.
It is the start of reducing pesticides Cape-wide. Thank you for caring to help this mission!
~ In May 2024 EASTHAM and WELLFLEET
passed the same petition !!!
PESTICIDES are made to KILL
Help REDUCE Pesticides Cape-wide
Be in support of a reduction in outdoor pesticide use throughout Cape Cod because since we live 25 feet above where we drink water from, we swim in ponds and we eat from the salt waters that surround us here. The biggest problem I have with outdoor pesticides is, they move in our environment: air, soil and water. Scientists say an average of a foot a day. So, if my neighbor uses them, I am exposed to them and that is completely unfair.
“People have a right to NOT be exposed to pesticides used on other peoples’ properties.
Ponds have a right to NOT be exposed to pesticides used on other peoples’ properties.
Bees have a right to NOT be exposed to pesticides used on other people’s properties.”
~ Laura Kelley
The exposure (of pesticides) to children and seniors should be limited as much as possible. Pesticides move from the application site. They do not stay put after application and can be transported over long distances fairly rapidly through wind and rain. Dose, as well as frequency, duration of exposure, sequence and timing are all factors in how a pesticide exposure may impact someone. Exposure to multiple pesticide ingredients or other toxic chemicals can change the way we are affected by them. Multiple exposures can have a magnified effect greater than the individual chemical effects when added together. This is called a synergistic effect or synergistic toxicity.
Pesticides harm health. A growing body of scientific literature shows that pesticide exposure can adversely affect endocrine, neurological, immune, and respiratory systems in humans even at very low levels. Pesticides is a substance used for DESTROYING insects or other organisms harmful to cultivated plants or to animals. It is any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling or mitigating any pest.
Problems with pesticides are they also contaminate our food, drinking water, harm pollinators and threaten our ecosystems.
Get your town involved, we can help!
Very excited to work closely with you and get a Pesticide Reduction Home Rule Petition (HRP)
on your town meeting Warrant for your town citizens to vote what they want for their town.
The hard work is already done, the writing of the petitions.
As you heard, Orleans, Eastham and Wellfleet towns passed the Pesticide HRP already!!!
We placed years worth of work together for other towns to gather information from:
FAQ's, support letters, studies, test, videos of meetings, hand-outs, presentations, etc:
TO SEE ALL INFORMATION please go to the link below:
Orleans town website:
https://www.town.orleans.ma.us/1335/Pesticide-Home-Rule-Petition-2023
Pesticide Home Rule Petition 2023
https://www.town.orleans.ma.us/DocumentCenter/View/6663/H4481
ANOTHER GREAT WAY TO HELP:
please sign the citizens petition below, no matter where you live world-wide: