Public debate is healthy and that includes listening to diverse opinions on how we all use our resources. However, the unrestrained arena of Internet blogs and the public comment sections at the end of online news stories provides anonymous writers the ability to say just about anything.
At CFWC we reviewed hundreds of on-line comments to come up with the Top Ten examples of individuals exercising their First Amendment rights. While we strongly disagree with their content, we provide them to you as a year-end reminder of the reason your support and involvement in farm water issues is important.
(If you wish to read more of the public comments, click the links provided following 'Read more'.)
10.
From SF Chronicle
Testing water for salmon in the San Joaquin River
Feb. 7, 2010
Kreed: Why stop at restoring the San Joaquin River? Let's recover the rest of the southern Central Valley's formerly rich and abundant ecosystem. You can wake me up when Tulare Lake has been restored to its mid-nineteenth century size, between 600 and 700 square miles.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/07/BATF1BS147.DTL&feed=rss.news <http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/07/BATF1BS147.DTL&feed=rss.news>
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9.
From SF Chronicle
Judge rejects plea to lift smelt limits
Feb. 10, 2010
Purpleimpernel: Farmers need to learn to work without the huge flow of free water they are used to. For a start, tropical crops like rice and cotton don't belong here. They should give up on flood irrigation, arial spay irrigation, daytime watering, etc.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/10/BAL61BVOH8.DTL
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8.
From City Brights/SF Chronicle
Saving the salmon fishing industry
By Zeke Grader
April 14, 2010
cptjohnsmith: mikewade: You should be ashamed of yourself. You and others like you are responsible for the serious and permanent damage that is being inflicted on our great state by the large corporate agribusinesses...Put simply, you and those like are criminally responsible for vandalizing the state of California.
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7.
From City Brights/SF Chronicle
Saving the salmon fishing industry
By Zeke Grader
April 14, 2010
CTheGee: The salmon of the San Joaquin were sacrificed for over fifty years by diverting the river to farms. ... Eradication of salmon, a sustainable "crop" for continued growth of unsustainable agriculture on toxic soils is not really worth an argument.
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6.
From SF Chronicle
Judge may deal jolt to delta water plan
May 18, 2010
huero: Those killer whales in Fresno are fierce.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/18/MNFT1DGOGD.DTL#ixzz17ZEGQwKD
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5.
From SF Gate
This time, will we end the water war?
June 12, 2010
codeofthewest: read marc reisner's "Cadillack Desert." an absolutely tremendous work, engaging, informative, apolitical; imperative reading, should be a mandatory Calif history high school text. (that's an utter fantasy, of course - for one thing, i think that's a BOOK!)
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/12/INV31DRTR9.DTL#ixzz17TbTn9MA
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4.
From SF Chronicle
Speier shouldn't blame farmers for salmon decline
December 7, 2010
fshfndr: "If fishermen want to save salmon, they need to work closely with farmers and others who live and work in the delta and along our seashores to understand the problems they all face and to help find a solution from which all can benefit." (quoted from author of article)
Farmers like Westlands, Dudley Ridge, San Luis and Mendota Districts who are bankrolling the lawyers like Hayes to exlcude fishermen from the table, undermine the science and mislead the media on "congress created dustbowls"? You mean those guys?
It should be the Farmers trying to work with fisherman on how to restore what over pumping has destoyed. Comprimising with farming has got us where we are now, thousands of lost fishing jobs and the destruction of the West Coasts biggest estuary, on par with the great Everglades.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/opinionshop/detail?entry_id=78510#ixzz17TfCHyXW
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3.
From SF Gate- Zeke Grader
State report's recipe for a restored delta: More water
July 28, 2010
cozart: Theorize THIS, flack: Your corporate masters get a HUGE amount of water; much of which they waste. And since it's much easier to hire PR weasels than it is to sensibly regulate water use, that's what Big AG will do until they're dragged, kicking and screaming, to their senses. Kind of a shame, really. If you guys spent less time manipulating data and more time putting sensible water use practices into place, we could probably reach a compromise that satisfies everyone. Until that time, hear this: Our salmon fleet has been screwed too hard, for too long. It's your turn.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/zgrader/detail?entry_id=68852#ixzz17TPd4NHS
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2.
From Modesto Bee
Save water: Retire ruined land
October 14, 2010
Lionfig: When fast food resturants stop giving free refills of soda (we produce too much sugar) and when our overweight population drops a few pounds I would agree with you. You farmers over produce sugar and oils and dairy products which causes an over weight population thus increasing healthcare costs. If we need to import more food to save water for the environment I am for that. Farmers are some of the most selfish self-centered people I have ever meet. "Right to Farm" is more like a "right to be rude".
Read more: http://www.modbee.com/2010/10/13/1382317/save-water-retire-ruined-land.html#ixzz17NBe1DnO
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1.
From SF Chronicle
San Joaquin River flowing through dry stretches
March 31, 2010
m_thomas: Screw the farmers - all they want is subsidies and to continue farming in their unsustainable ways. Besides, most are large corporations anyway. They waste an incredible amount of water because they don't invest in new irrigation technologies. Maybe this will force them to adopt different techniques.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/article?f=/c/a/2010/03/30/MNMT1CNJ64.DTL
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