bug spray
two reports today on the controversy in the Central Valley over pesticide use that may expose the public in the vicinity of spraying. While both KRON4 television (news at 6) and USA Today mention the exposure to the (millions of) workers (as a fleeting footnote) they both fail to mention the impact on those who eat said crops when they go to market.
take your choice: to breathe it, or to drink it or to eat it? it’s treachery and it’s fucking surreal:
“There’s a trade-off,” says Rebeckah Freeman (email), a governmental affairs director for the American Farm Bureau Federation. “Do you want your fruit and vegetables to look pretty or do you have a social issue with these pest-management tools?”
wtf? The USA Today article lists a host of the reported ills including this:
“People were vomiting and coughing,” says the mother of seven. “People told me they didn’t know if they were going to live or die.”
chances are, you’re eating it:
Diener, the California farmer, thinks agriculture will slowly wean itself from reliance on toxic chemicals. But even though organic farming is the industry’s fastest growing sector, it’s only about 2% of production. Use of less-risky pesticides is up sharply but still accounts for less than 1% of the market. “We can’t do social good for anybody unless we make a profit,” he says.
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