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Trade and Pesticides
Pesticides
Hurt Children in India
Pesticides
Study: Too Harmful to Use
20
Ways to Fight Pesticides
Free
Trade Agreements Encourage Pesticide Use at the Expense of the
People
We
are pleased to provide this article from the Red de Acción
en Plaguicidas y sus Alternativas para América Latina
(PAN Latin America, or RAPAL in Spanish) presented in September
2003 to the global movement of farmers, peasants and non government
organizations protesting the World Trade Organization talks
in Cancun. The author is Fernando Bejarano of RAPAM and the
English translation was done by the Pesticide
Action Network North American and published in their Global
Pesticide Campaigner.
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Trade and Pesticides (English)
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Comercio y Plaguicidas (Español)
Pesticide
Use Impairs Abilities of Children in India
According
to a study just released by Greenpeace, children from villages
in the cotton-cultivating northern states of India, who are
exposed to high levels of pesticides, suffer from poor memory
and impaired analytical and motor skills. A control group of
children not exposed to pesticides performed 80 percent better
on a series of tests than the exposed kids. Farmers in northern
India make heavy use of pesticides, sometimes several different
kinds, spraying up to 30 times a day. Greenpeace called on farmers
to move to organic cultivation, and called on global pesticide
manufacturers to stop dumping products in India they wouldn't
sell in Europe or the U.S. In other bummer kid news, UNICEF
reports that water and sanitation-related diarrheal diseases
(and here we pause to shudder) kill some 2 million children
each year, or about 5,000 a day.
straight
to the source: Terra
Daily, Agence France-Presse, 09 Apr 2004
straight
to the source: New
Kerala, 09 Apr 2004
Pesticides
Too Harmful to Use in Any Form, Doctors Warn
The
link between common household pesticides and fetal defects,
neurological damage and the most deadly cancers is strong enough
that family doctors in Ontario are urging citizens to avoid
the chemicals in any form. Toronto Globe and Mail, Ontario.
24 April. Go...
20
Ways to Fight Pesticides (Including a downloadable
poster)
From Pesticide Action Network North America Go...
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