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PAY ATTENTION PEOPLE!!!! HOW CAN SO MANY SEE. SO MANY KNOW... YET SO MANY NOT SPEAK?????? IS THAT NOT THE SAME AS CONDONING THE VERY THING THAT KILLING PEOPLE??? Had to share Thank you Native Causes
PAY ATTENTION PEOPLE!!!! HOW CAN SO MANY SEE. SO MANY KNOW... YET SO MANY NOT SPEAK?????? IS THAT NOT THE SAME AS CONDONING THE VERY THING THAT KILLING PEOPLE??? Had to share Thank you Native Causes
Argentina was among the earliest adopters of the new biotech farming model promoted by Monsanto and other U.S. agribusinesses. Without Mandatory GMO labeling, we can't avoid contributing to these kinds of practices. We need a free economy... so that we can stop this madness.
In this April 1, 2013 photo, Aixa Cano, 5, who has hairy moles all over her body that doctors can't explain, sits on a stoop outside her home in Avia Terai, in Chaco province, Argentina. Although it’s nearly impossible to prove, doctors say Aixa’s birth defect may be linked to agrochemicals. In Chaco, children are four times more likely to be born with devastating birth defects since biotechnology dramatically expanded farming in Argentina. Chemicals routinely contaminate homes, classrooms and drinking water. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
ARGENTINES LINK HEALTH PROBLEMS TO AGROCHEMICALS
MICHAEL WARREN NATACHA PISARENKO Associated Press Published: October 20, 2013 2:33PM
BASAVILBASO, Argentina (AP) -- Argentine farmworker Fabian Tomasi was never trained to handle pesticides. His job was to keep the crop-dusters flying by filling their tanks as quickly as possible, although it often meant getting drenched in poison.
Now, at 47, he's a living skeleton, so weak he can hardly leave his house in Entre Rios province.
Schoolteacher Andrea Druetta lives in Santa Fe Province, the heart of Argentina's soy country, where agrochemical spraying is banned within 500 meters (550 yards) of populated areas. But soy is planted just 30 meters (33 yards) from her back door. Her boys were showered in chemicals recently while swimming in the backyard pool.
After Sofia Gatica lost her newborn to kidney failure, she filed a complaint that led to Argentina's first criminal convictions for illegal spraying. But last year's verdict came too late for many of her 5,300 neighbors in Ituzaingo Annex. A government study there found alarming levels of agrochemical contamination in the soil and drinking water, and 80 percent of the children surveyed carried traces of pesticide in their blood.
American biotechnology has turned Argentina into the world's third-largest soybean producer, but the chemicals powering the boom aren't confined to soy and cotton and corn fields.
The Associated Press documented dozens of cases around the country where poisons are applied in ways unanticipated by regulatory science or specifically banned by existing law. The spray drifts into schools and homes and settles over water sources; farmworkers mix poisons with no protective gear; villagers store water in pesticide containers that should have been destroyed.
Now doctors are warning that uncontrolled pesticide applications could be the cause of growing health problems among the 12 million people who live in the South American nation's vast farm belt.
Read the full article, here: http://www.auroraadvocate.com/ap%20financial/2013/10/18/argentines-link-health-problems-to-agrochemicals
It is our responsibility, as compassionate humans living in the United States, to hear and share the stories and grievances of people being impacted U.S. corporate interests. We are, after all, all one human family.
At, Massachusetts Right to Know GMOs, we stand in solidarity with our allies in the global south: ongoing citizens blockade to oppose new Monsanto processing plant in Argentina:
In this April 1, 2013 photo, Aixa Cano, 5, who has hairy moles all over her body that doctors can't explain, sits on a stoop outside her home in Avia Terai, in Chaco province, Argentina. Although it’s nearly impossible to prove, doctors say Aixa’s birth defect may be linked to agrochemicals. In Chaco, children are four times more likely to be born with devastating birth defects since biotechnology dramatically expanded farming in Argentina. Chemicals routinely contaminate homes, classrooms and drinking water. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
ARGENTINES LINK HEALTH PROBLEMS TO AGROCHEMICALS
MICHAEL WARREN NATACHA PISARENKO Associated Press Published: October 20, 2013 2:33PM
BASAVILBASO, Argentina (AP) -- Argentine farmworker Fabian Tomasi was never trained to handle pesticides. His job was to keep the crop-dusters flying by filling their tanks as quickly as possible, although it often meant getting drenched in poison.
Now, at 47, he's a living skeleton, so weak he can hardly leave his house in Entre Rios province.
Schoolteacher Andrea Druetta lives in Santa Fe Province, the heart of Argentina's soy country, where agrochemical spraying is banned within 500 meters (550 yards) of populated areas. But soy is planted just 30 meters (33 yards) from her back door. Her boys were showered in chemicals recently while swimming in the backyard pool.
After Sofia Gatica lost her newborn to kidney failure, she filed a complaint that led to Argentina's first criminal convictions for illegal spraying. But last year's verdict came too late for many of her 5,300 neighbors in Ituzaingo Annex. A government study there found alarming levels of agrochemical contamination in the soil and drinking water, and 80 percent of the children surveyed carried traces of pesticide in their blood.
American biotechnology has turned Argentina into the world's third-largest soybean producer, but the chemicals powering the boom aren't confined to soy and cotton and corn fields.
The Associated Press documented dozens of cases around the country where poisons are applied in ways unanticipated by regulatory science or specifically banned by existing law. The spray drifts into schools and homes and settles over water sources; farmworkers mix poisons with no protective gear; villagers store water in pesticide containers that should have been destroyed.
Now doctors are warning that uncontrolled pesticide applications could be the cause of growing health problems among the 12 million people who live in the South American nation's vast farm belt.
Read the full article, here: http://www.auroraadvocate.com/ap%20financial/2013/10/18/argentines-link-health-problems-to-agrochemicals
It is our responsibility, as compassionate humans living in the United States, to hear and share the stories and grievances of people being impacted U.S. corporate interests. We are, after all, all one human family.
At, Massachusetts Right to Know GMOs, we stand in solidarity with our allies in the global south: ongoing citizens blockade to oppose new Monsanto processing plant in Argentina:
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