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Fruitarians and Macrobiotics. Why the new vegetarian trend? It is inexpensive, for one thing. Moreover, the ecoactivists are concerned by the amount of DDT and other chemicals in meat. But there are more spiritual if not downright mystical reasons as well. "When carrion is consumed, people are really greedy," states California's Wheeler. Others maintain that food is the determining factor in "the biological conditions in man that produce wars, brutality and narrow thinking...
...contract between the Teamsters and the lettuce growers called for an annual increase of twocents per hour over the $1.25 which workers now earn. No provisions were made for health care, housing, or educational facilities. Nothing in the contract mentioned the growers' practice of spraying fields with DDT while pickers were working, which had caused much blindness and skin disease...
...United Farm Workers Union has been negotiating a contract with the growers which increases wages to $210 an hour, provides medical insurance to workers after 50 hours in the fields, and bans the growers' use of DDT and other hard pesticides...
...another legal offensive, the Environmental Defense Fund last week sought a federal court injunction against the Montrose Chemical Corp., the world's largest manufacturer of DDT, and the county sanitation districts of Los Angeles. According to E.D.F., the defendants are illegally dumping vast quantities of DDT byproducts and waste into the Los Angeles sewage system, which then flow into the estuaries and coastal waters of Santa Monica...
E.D.F. suggests that such discharges may be the chief source of DDT in Southern California waterways, and adds that the pesticide, which may endanger humans, has already caused the near extinction of the brown pelican...