Deadly Poisons on Grapes: Venenos mortales en las uvas

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During the late 1960s and early 1970s the United Farm Workers Union Organizing Committee fought to regulate the use pesticides. Growers where using various pesticides to help increase the production of produce. The pesticides used were hazardous to farm workers as well as the individuals who consumed the products. Mothers who were nursing protested the use of DDT on grapes/produce. They noted that although DDT killed pesticides it was harmful to their health and their developing babies.

Keywords

Poisons, pesticides, UFWOC, United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, mothers, breast feeding, nursing, DDT Dangers, UC Berkeley, San Francisco, biologists, Marine Resources Institute, Kern County, weed killer, FDA, United States Food and Drug Administration, Chicago, Michigan, chemicals, Jerome Cohen

Date

1969

Language

English

Location

United States

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Text

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application/pdf

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El Malcriado Newspaper Collection

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Archives & Special Collections of California State University, Monterey Bay

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"Deadly Poisons on Grapes: Venenos mortales en las uvas" (1969). Activists. 39.
https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/elmalcriado_activist-leaders/39