They who do not know the reality

Priests who should promote impart upon people that which is true, honest and with bases are telling people wrongs and unfounded claims.

Lilia Mosqueda of the Gagmay Kristohanong Katilingban (Small Christian Community) said Mamamayan Ayaw sa Aerial Spraying president Cecilia Moran and a certain Liezl Bacalso were reported to have talked to the parishioners during mass for the Feast of St. Ignatius at the Ateneo de Manila University last July 30, to the seminarians at the Ateneo School of Theology, to students of the Ateneo Law School at Rockwell in Makati and to socialites at the Nine-Mile Bar along Kalayaan Avenue in Quezon City.

"Their forum is a grossly one-sided affair and is a repudiation of Ateneo's time-honored tradition of being issue-confronting but dialogic and educative," said an Ateneo Law School student.
Cecilia Moran’s neighbours expressed shock and dismay that some priests in Manila have fallen for her emotional outburst against Davao's banana industry.

Barangay Captain Romulo C. Tubal of Dacudao, Calinan said people opposing the aerial spraying are totally disconnected from Barangay and reality. Tubal said that they insist on using "pesticides" because Manila residents associate it with "insecticides" and therefore harmful when the truth of the matter is that what is being sprayed is low-dose fungicide. He said that they do not represent the majority sentiments of the people who are daily witnesses to the good agricultural practices of the industry and who have actual experience for the past 30 years of the effects of low-dose fungicide to their health and environment. "It is not harmful as it is milder than table salt, coffee or laundry soaps contrary to their claim that it is as strong as insecticides," he said.