Demand more protections for farm workers
Farm workers are some of the hardest working people in our country. They play a vital and indispensable role in our entire food system, and all of u... Read More »
Tag Archives: Pesticides
Fed Up: The High Costs of Cheap Food
For decades, the farms around Lake Apopka, Florida's third largest lake, were sprayed with chemicals ranging from the now-banned DDT to toxaphene. The... Read More »
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EPA Offers Revisions to Worker Protection Standard
Press Release EPA Offers Revisions to Worker Protection Standard Last week, the EPA proposed new changes for the Worker Protection Standard to addre... Read More »
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Lake Apopka Toxic Tour
On Sunday, November 24th, five YAYA members met up with three Rollins College students at the Apopka office of the Farm Worker Association of Florida ... Read More »
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Improve the Worker Protection Standards NOW!
Farmworkers are often exposed to dangerous pesticides while they work in the fields, facing a greater threat from exposure to these chemicals than any... Read More »
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URGENT: Take action against fumigant pesticides!
Please take action to protect farm workers from the dangerous health effects of fumigant pesticides. There are only four more days to take action. Wil... Read More »
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Protecting Farm Workers from Pesticides
A message from the Pesticide Action Network of North America: “Scientists tell us that pesticides can harm our health, even at the very low levels ... Read More »
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Protecting Farm Workers from Harmful Pesticides
A message from the Pesticide Action Network of North America: “Scientists tell us that pesticides can harm our health, even at the very low levels ... Read More »
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EPA: Protect farm workers from pesticides!
A message from the Pesticide Action Network of North America (PANNA): "Many of our summer favorites — watermelon, strawberries, peaches — carry p... Read More »
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Protect farm workers from pesticides!
A message from the Pesticide Action Network of North America: To mark this year’s National Farmworker Awareness Week, we are urging policymakers to... Read More »
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