† Exposed and Ignored: How pesticides are endangering our nation’s farmworkers Chapter 2 F armworkers suffer serious short- and long-term health risks from pesticide exposure. Short- term (acute) effects may include stinging eyes, rashes, blisters, blindness, nausea, dizziness, headaches, coma, and even death.7 Some, Exposed and Ignored: How Pesticides are Endangering Our Nation’s Farmworkers, a new report from Farmworker Justice, outlines the health risks posed by pesticides and specific recommendations to …
7/24/2013 · The Washington, DC visit was timed to coincide with release of Farmworker Justice’s report, Exposed and Ignored: How Pesticides are Endangering Our Nation’s Farmworkers. “This can’t wait …
7/24/2013 · The Washington, DC visit was timed to coincide with release of Farmworker Justice’s report, Exposed and Ignored: How Pesticides are Endangering Our Nation’s Farmworkers. “This can’t wait another day or another season,” said Ruiz. “Government and employers have to make chemical safety in agriculture a priority.
7/30/2013 · Exposed and Ignored: How Pesticides are Endangering Our Nation’s Farmworkers draws on research and anecdotes to convey the danger to farmworkers. Calling pesticide exposure an “unavoidable reality” for farmworkers, the report states that they face exposure through direct spray, aerial drift and residue on crops.
Exposed and Ignored: How Pesticides are Endangering our Nation’s Farmworkers, FARMWORKER JUSTICE (2013) see also Keith Cunningham-Parmeter, A Poisoned Field: Farmworkers, Pesticide Exposure, and Tort Recovery in an Era of Regulatory Failure, 28 N.Y.U. REV. L. & SOC. CHANGE 431, 443, 491 (2015). 2.
