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Students should vote as they please today for whatever they think is just. But how can we ignore, for example, the fact that in Earlimart, Calif., a town surrounded by grape fields, the childhood cancer rate is 1200 percent of the national rate? How can we dehumanize the value of these grape pickers' lives. I am tired of people ignoring and making a mockery of the tremendous violations of human rights in our own country...
...Earlimart, 15 miles from McFarland, six children have been diagnosed with cancer since 1988; the rate in Earlimart is 1200 percent the expected rate. One of these children, Monica Tovar, died earlier this year. Seven children in Fowler, another grape-growing community, have been diagnosed with cancer since 1984. The World Institute estimates that toxic pesticides poison over 300,000 farm workers in the United States every year...
...called it home. The neighboring town and country were nourished by huge water projects and irrigation systems. Other valley towns thrived, but Teviston never amounted to much because it had no water supply of its own. To get their water, Teviston people had to go to nearby Pixley or Earlimart and haul it back in battered milk cans and oil drums. They measured their status by the number of cans and drums that they could acquire...
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