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Addressing a crowd of about 150 people, Chavez attacked growers and politicians for not banning the use of harmful chemicals in the grape and other fruit industries. These pesticides are the cause of birth defects, miscarriages, and cancer in workers, he said...
...message is very clear," said Chavez, who organized a boycott on table grapes which was the first industry-wide agricultural boycott in U.S. history. "We demand that they stop spraying DDT, cancer-causing, and birth-defect causing pesticides...
...This University should not be serving grapes," said Chavez in an interview with The Crimson after the speech. "It's a disgrace...
...Chavez also suggested he might arrange a confrontation between farm workers and the University administration to force it to join the boycott on grapes...
...Chavez who in 1962 organized the National Farm Workers Association--later the United Farm Workers of America (UFW)--has spent 41 years campaigning for better working conditons, higher wages, the end of child exploitation and a ban on deadly pesticides...