May 7, 2024 From pesticides to consumer products, manufacturers are known to go to great lengths to limit and control what the public...
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Pesticides Linked to Climate Change, Despite Declining Efficacy
July 26, 2023 Pesticides are a key contributor to climate change – posing risks to the environment, public health, and food security –...
Remembering Cesar Chavez and his Wrath of Grapes Speech
May 31, 2017 Cesar Chavez captured the public eye in the late 1960s. Born in Arizona at the beginning of the Great Depression,...
Why Isn’t This Life-Threatening Pesticide Banned on Farms?
March 17, 2017 Parents who work as farmhands or pickers are often in nearby fields when pesticides like Roundup are sprayed. Farmworkers sometimes...
Real Scares – The Shock of Getting Illness on the Job
October 31, 2016 Put all the creatures of the night together, and they still couldn’t be as terrifying as learning that someone in...
Stronger Pesticide Regulation Protects Workers and Children
October 16, 2015 Pesticides have been shown in repeated studies to cause birth defects, cancer and neurological problems. Yet American farmworkers are routinely...
