By Devon G. Peña, Ph.D. – Environmental and Food Justice, 2 October 2015
Photo courtesy of Popular Resistance
Source: http://ejfood.blogspot.it/2015/10/when-food-workers-rebel-historic-farm.html
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Monsanto has known for decades that it falsely advertises the safety of Roundup®
PLAINTIFFS CLAIM HERBICIDE CAUSED THEIR CANCERS
Devon G. Peña | Viejo San Acacio, CO | October 2, 2015
In a nation cursed and spooked by incessant surveillance of the population – including constant monitoring of worker productivity and social activity – it can seem surprising that we really do not know how many farm workers get sick or die as a result of pesticide poisoning each year.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that anywhere between 10 and 20 thousand farm workers are poisoned by pesticides every year. The problem of figuring out how many is exacerbated by the fact that, as of 2015, only 30 states require health professionals to report suspected pesticide poisoning.
Despite the fact that the EPA administers a so-called Worker Protection Standard – which establishes a framework to assist with the regulation of pesticide use and to protect workers and handlers – the agency, amazingly enough, maintains no comprehensive database to track pesticide exposure incidents nationwide; see Public Integrity 2012.
According to Farmworker Justice, a Washington D.C.-based advocacy group, and the Center for Public Integrity, a non-profit dedicated to critical investigative reporting, a 2006 EPA slideshow opened with a question: How many occupational pesticide incidents are there each year in the United States? The slide listed multiple possibilities, from 1,300 to 300,000.
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