Airplane Warning – Mandatory Spraying of Toxins

If they don’t get you with their vaccinations, they will get you with their electromagnetic radiation and biocides……

After some research I made the decision to explore the Andes mountains, the Southern Cone (Cono Sur) and areas west of the Andes for a place of sanctuary from the madness of the modern world.

I choose this region because of the climate (I prefer temperate/Mediterranean climates), the lack of tropical diseases, and the low human population density (in many parts) with large regions of land far from cities. Some places in this area remain geographically isolated and subsistence lifestyles can still be found. I figured that it would be better to live in a place with high-resiliency, with the population already living off of the land, then to remain enmeshed within a society that is totally dependent on an unsustainable system that will collapse. Better to live close to the Earth. Those who have not forgotten how to live in Nature stand the best chance of survival.

I chose to fly from Guatemala to Argentina because I had read about some countries requiring the fumigation of passengers with pesticides before entering the country. I reviewed the U.S. Department of Transportation list of countries that use “disinsection.” Uruguay, Chile, and Peru (some in country flights) were listed as countries that fumigate airplanes. I had talked with the airline company Avianca about flying to Argentina. The person that I spoke to on the phone said that they did not have access to information about which flights are sprayed but thought that it was not likely to occur if flying to Argentina. With the U.S. Department of Transportation information and the conversation with the Avianca sales representative, I thought that I was safe.

I was wrong. At the end of my flight to South America, the plane was unexpectedly fumigated with a poison.

I wrote the following letter and sent it to the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Tourism, the airline company Avianca, an international aviation body, airports and newspapers. It would probably require a lawsuit to actually get anyone’s attention. Nevertheless, the letter serves as a warning for other travelers seeking ways of moving through our insane world. In the future I will be sure to contact all airports on the itinerary, and the transportation authorities of each country. In retrospect, I think landing in Peru would have been the better choice.

MY LETTER

I am writing due to a recent experience I had flying into Argentina.

At the end of the flight I was sprayed with a poisoness pesticide along with the rest of the passengers on an Avianca flight. The particular toxin was not identified which prevents me from researching the toxicology data. The only thing we were told is that the World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the poison for arbitrary application upon the human population. Based on subsequent research I assume the spray was some type of synthetic pyrethroid, a nerve toxin.

Like many regulatory agencies the WHO has conflicts of interest due to special interest groups (i.e. corporations) that have compromised and in some cases captured the regulatory body. The WHO already has a poor track record with its negligence in handling the severe threat from electromagnetic radiation and the official ongoing claim by WHO that vaccines are safe despite the overwhelming science based evidence to the contrary.

If the WHO is saying that pesticides are safe to spray on people, then the WHO only further erodes what remaining credibility this bureaucracy may hold. It only takes a tiny bit of common sense to realize that a toxin that kills other life forms is likely to be harmful to ourselves too.

“This practice is insanity,” agrees Dr. Jack Thrasher, an immunotoxicologist in Alto, N.M.

Sheila Daar, director of the Bio-Integral Resource Center in Berkeley, Calif. notes that insects rapidly develop resistance to pesticides. That is just one reason why many experts point out that pesticide use on planes is not only dangerous, but useless.

Assistant Surgeon General Donald Hopkins said that “disinsection of aircraft has never been shown to be highly effective in disease control and prevention.”

Danger in the Air: Pesticide use on domestic airplanes may make flying hazardous to your health by Karin Winegar, Mother Jones

In humanities attempts to control all of life it is apparent that our species will take extreme actions in the war against nature. We have become pathological in our relationship to ourselves, each other and the rest of life on Earth. The mandatory spraying of poisons on civilians as they enter a country is a clear example of this pathology.

How many people need to die of cancer, suffer neurological damage, be rendered infertile or have their DNA damaged before such idiotic practices are stopped? How many ecosystems will be harmed or species will have to go extinct before we decide to stop buying and using these toxins? Our species is on a direct course for self destruction and we are taking many other creatures with us.

I am angry with the Argentine (Health Authorities/Agricultural Authorities) for having this policy in place. I am disgusted with Avianca airlines for agreeing to spray poisons on its passengers.

I specifically did research to find a place in South America to fly to that did not fumigate its passengers. On this list by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Argentina was not mentioned. I had thought that I would be safe flying there. I avoided flying to Chile and Uruguay because they were on the list of countries that poison arrivals by airplane. I had talked to an Avianca sales representative before the flight who did not think that they would fumigate a flight to Argentina. (Though they said that they were not sure.) The sales representatives should have this information in their database.

I should have flown to somewhere else. As a consequence I will be sharing my experience through my social networks. I will advise people to avoid flying into Argentina and other countries who find it acceptable to spray poisons on travelers. I will also advise people to find alternate means of transport, using travel companies that have enough respect for people’s health not to poison them.

Angry and disgusted,

ARTICLES

Pesticides on Planes: How Airlines Are Softly Killing Us by Maryam Henein

U.S. Initiates Effort to Halt Airline Insecticide Spraying by Martin Tolchin, New York Times

Government Advises Airlines to Spray Pesticides on Passengers by Jonathan Landsman

Exposure to Pesticides on Aircraft by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Should Fliers Worry About Pesticide Spraying on Planes? by Bill McGee, USA Today

Pesticide on Planes: Parents Call for Changes After Cabin Fumigated With Passengers on Board by Rosa Marchitelli, CBC News