VIDEO: Migrant Farmworkers May Have Been Sickened By Toxic Pesticide Greenlighted by EPA Under Trump

democracynow.org - This week Amy Goodman is on tour in California, where earlier this month more than 50 farmworkers in California were exposed to a highly toxic pesticide after it was greenlighted by the EPA in one of the agency’s first decisions since Trump took office. About an hour after workers arrived for their shift at Dan Andrews Farms in Bakersfield, California, many began to exhibit symptoms of vomiting and nausea. At least one person fainted. Observers suspect the source was drift from a nearby orchard that was sprayed the night before with Vulcan, a pesticide containing the known neurotoxin chlorpyrifos, a product of Dow Chemical Company. Last year, the EPA was on the verge of banning chlorpyrifos, but under EPA administrator Scott Pruitt the agency unexpectedly reversed course and approved its use. We are joined by Eriberto Fernandez, with the Civic Participation and Policy Coordinator with United Farm Workers Foundation; and Kristin Schafer, program and policy director for Pesticide Action Network North America, which petitioned the EPA to ban the use of chlorpyrifos.
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  • @cperez8919
    @cperez89197 жыл бұрын

    My heart is aching. When will this country put people before profit?

  • @PreciousBoxer

    @PreciousBoxer

    7 жыл бұрын

    Post-capitalism, I think.

  • @ZEZERBING

    @ZEZERBING

    7 жыл бұрын

    C Perez we humans tend to change only when we have no choice. only when we run out of oil. when the environment crashes, when the banks bankrupt the country, when the citizens revolt, will change occur.

  • @teardrop-in-a-fishbowl

    @teardrop-in-a-fishbowl

    7 жыл бұрын

    Do not wait for a savior a la Trump, Clinton or Sanders! It's about you! Go "out" and fight for your future, use your opportunities!

  • @jzoidberg6525

    @jzoidberg6525

    7 жыл бұрын

    socialism or barbarism.

  • @dulynoted2427
    @dulynoted24277 жыл бұрын

    DOW Chemicals contributed to trump's campaign.

  • @noviceprepper5397
    @noviceprepper53977 жыл бұрын

    Unacceptable risk to our invaluable farm workers.

  • @TheTheddi
    @TheTheddi7 жыл бұрын

    Modern agriculture is one of the biggest problem the world faces right now. It is in many instances the primary contributor to climate change and environmental pollution. We have to change towards sustainable agriculture, by abandoning pesticides, synthetic fertilizers and annual monocultures.

  • @susanbodell1459
    @susanbodell14597 жыл бұрын

    This is horriable , no respect for people

  • @openyoureyes3308
    @openyoureyes33087 жыл бұрын

    law suit

  • @jzoidberg6525
    @jzoidberg65257 жыл бұрын

    We are biting the hand that feeds us.

  • @WhisperGray
    @WhisperGray7 жыл бұрын

    Did no one tell you there is a Norovirus outbreak in California ? Several California school districts have closed schools , and thousands of staff, students and families have been sickened.

  • @davidbarboza5675
    @davidbarboza56757 жыл бұрын

    An orangutan with a pen can cause major damage.

  • @emilycorwith1119
    @emilycorwith11197 жыл бұрын

    So unbelievably awful that this current admin. sides with Dow Chemical against humanity and the environment.

  • @lamooky284
    @lamooky2847 жыл бұрын

    dude i threw up the first time 2 weeks ago, i prune orabge trees all over california in bakersfield,i experienced vomiting in Maricopa @ Gless Ranch

  • @Msdevanonly

    @Msdevanonly

    7 жыл бұрын

    Al Fr I'm so sorry for what you have gone through. I wish you the best. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

  • @rustyjohnson5018

    @rustyjohnson5018

    7 жыл бұрын

    Al Fr Get yourself healthy friend. I hope we can find a better way to exist.

  • @lamooky284

    @lamooky284

    7 жыл бұрын

    your most kind and i don't even know you ! God Is Good! thank you.

  • @lamooky284

    @lamooky284

    7 жыл бұрын

    i actually and honestly stopped that day swear on everything its been 2 and a half weeks! i thought about it, i was born w asthma and when it happened my lungs were cramping viciously , i assumed the asthma and not just that the chemicals in the air cause they had sprayed the day before. but i end up throwing up! and i never throw up, and i can handle my beer

  • @angellight5040

    @angellight5040

    7 жыл бұрын

    Al Fr. Sorry for your situation, I suggest doing a detox cleanse on your body, to get rid of these toxic chemicals. Throwing up is a sign of of toxic chemical poisoning, even just the smell of certain chemicals can make you feel nauseous. Some people will not experience any symptoms, but everyone can be negatively affected even with no visible reactions. We need to ban these harmful chemicals once and for all.

  • @catchi515
    @catchi5157 жыл бұрын

    I'm a Canadian in British Columbia and I am boycotting ALL produce from the USA, no one knows what's in your food any more and the stuff we do know is in it is never good for your health, I and most people I know are just not going to buy any more produce from the States in the future. If this doesn't alarm American's it should, your economy is in danger (and a lot more of course) with this currant administration, people here are not visiting the States any more for day trips etc so you can imagine how people feel about going to the States from much further away. I don't hold much hope for the next four years and even further because you have allowed corporations to literally take over government, the next administration would have to undo every single policy by the Trump administration just to get you back to where you were before and the chances of the also corrupt Democratic party undoing all the damage, when some of it also benefits them is unlikely. Most modern governments are to some extent bought by corporations, but America is currently taking it all the way.

  • @vtecpreludevtec
    @vtecpreludevtec6 жыл бұрын

    I have sprayed it,n worked on trees sprayed w it for about 35 yrs .

  • @vtecpreludevtec

    @vtecpreludevtec

    6 жыл бұрын

    There r witholding peroids for harvest or doing maintainence wk on trees or crops.Its an organophosphate,stronger o/p s used to be used.I am just a wage worker,not a farmer.

  • @vtecpreludevtec

    @vtecpreludevtec

    6 жыл бұрын

    Not only used by corporates,small guys too.

  • @vtecpreludevtec

    @vtecpreludevtec

    6 жыл бұрын

    Exposure to o/p s lowers levels of blood enzyme cholinesterase.If ur poisoned atropine is a treatment.There are a raft of protocols related to using op s,those poisoned ppl were poisoned by op s for sure.No way should veges be planted n harvested nxt to citrus sprayed with op s.The citrus wont be allowed to be harvested for a long time after that organo phosphate insecticide spray,caterpillars hate it.

  • @Fournier46
    @Fournier467 жыл бұрын

    Yeah it's funny how I heard fellow conservatives complain that the EPA was ineffective, but then they elect people whose rhetoric conceals the fact that they are being paid to make the EPA fail even HARDER.

  • @rustyjohnson5018

    @rustyjohnson5018

    7 жыл бұрын

    Vanguard True. Thank you.

  • @gw5249
    @gw52497 жыл бұрын

    Trump looks and sounds like a 6 year old giving a report.

  • @RosiDarling
    @RosiDarling7 жыл бұрын

    I think that people whose health are affected by the relaxing of regulations (all industries) should start class action lawsuits against the Republicans who put forward the bills to repeal them. If their bottom line is affected by their decisions, maybe they won't become better people, but maybe they will start considering their actions more carefully in the future.

  • @justathought973
    @justathought9737 жыл бұрын

    Where's Jan? she's always here putting in her no sense.

  • @bobbybabylon1385
    @bobbybabylon13857 жыл бұрын

    backwards 4th world countries like usa only care for profits not people or human rights. this is how amerikkkans behave.

  • @TheCarin12
    @TheCarin127 жыл бұрын

    Population control.

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