Pesticide poisoning has rapidly increased in Argentina as Monsanto-seed
pesticided crops ramped up.
Meanwhile in Georgia, 90+% of common crops already are doused in pesticides.
What effects are all those poisons having on our own children and adults?
Argentine farmworker Fabian Tomasi wasn’t trained to use protective
gear as he pumped pesticides into crop dusters. Now at 47, he’s a
living skeleton.
Schoolteacher Andrea Druetta lives in a town where it’s illegal to
spray agrochemicals within 550 yards of homes, and yet soy is
planted just 33 yards from her back door. Recently, her boys were
showered in chemicals while swimming in their backyard pool.
Sofia Gatica’s search for answers after losing her newborn to kidney
failure led to Argentina’s first criminal convictions for illegal
spraying last year. But 80 percent of her neighbors’ children
surveyed carry pesticides in their blood.
Tired of hacking and coughing after cotton fields get sprayed to open their bolls?
Tired of losing your garden or organic crops to Roundup drift?
Now there are two precedents for legal recourse.
Purveyors of conventional and genetically-modified (GM) crops — and the
pesticides and herbicides that accompany them — are finally getting a
taste of their own legal medicine. Minnesota’s Star Tribune has reported
that the Minnesota Court of Appeals recently ruled that a large organic
farm surrounded by chemical-laden conventional farms can seek damages for
lost crops, as well as lost profits, caused by the illegal trespassing
of pesticides and herbicides on its property.
Oluf and Debra Johnson’s 1,500-acre organic farm in Stearns County,
Minn., has repeatedly been contaminated by nearby conventional and
GMO farms since the couple started it in the 1990s. A local pesticide
cooperative known as Paynesville Farmers Union (PFU), which is near the
farm, has been cited at least four times for violating pesticide laws,
and inadvertently causing damage to the Johnson’s farm.
The first time it was realized that pesticides had drifted onto the
Johnson’s farm in 1998, PFU apologized, but did not agree to pay for
damages. As anyone with an understanding of organic practices knows,
even a small bit of contamination can result in having to plow under
that season’s crops, forget profits, and even lose the ability to grow
organic crops in the same field for at least a couple years.
And all most people have done so far is let it slide.
But the Johnsons did something.
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The documentary points out many products in German stores that
include GM soy.
In Argentina, it’s even worse, with increasing numbers of birth defects.
They interview
Prof. Andrés Carrasco about his research on amphibians:
“The hemispheres do not separate, like you can see here.
If you look closely you can see one brain.
Glyphosate can cause this kind of mechanisms, for it is an enzymatic toxin.”
“To human cells glyphosate is already toxic in a very low dose.
A farmer uses a much higher dose on the field.
Roundup is even more toxic than glysophate,
for that is only one of the ingredients in Roundup.”
Roundup says none of this applies to humans and Roundup is safe.
Seralini
says:
Who should you believe?
A corporation repeatedly convicted of deception,
or scientists who say that GM crops
cause liver and kidney damage in animals,
according to research using Monsanto’s own data.
Argentine farmworker Fabian Tomasi wasn’t trained to use protective gear as he pumped pesticides into crop dusters. Now at 47, he’s a living skeleton.
