Pesticides are carcinogens and are used to KILL pests, which are insects that eat crops as foodstuff or destroys crops of the farmers.
I came across the following news articles. I wonder if illegal immigrants could sue America for making them sick. I wonder if this is why Obama’s health care insurance reform bill allows for moral and ethical reparation for these hard working farm hands.
Calif. bill would expand pesticide safety program
By ROBIN HINDERY, Associated Press Writer – Fri Apr 2, 3:35 am ET
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Josefina Miranda doesn’t need scientific studies to tell her about the dangers of pesticide exposure. She knows them all too well.
On a Thursday morning in 1995, the four-months pregnant farmworker spent several hours working in a field in the small Central Valley town of Earlimart — a site she remembers as being so soaked with pesticides “it was like it had been raining.”
Two days later, she had a miscarriage.
Miranda, now 38 and still working the fields, said the doctor at the hospital told her the pesticides were not to blame for her miscarriage because she didn’t ingest any chemicals. But she believes otherwise. Other farmworkers from the same field also fell ill, she said, but they were too afraid to report their symptoms or seek medical attention.
Miranda and the rest of California’s 700,000 farmworkers may soon receive greater protection under a proposed expansion of the state’s nationally renowned pesticide safety program.
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