Word: earlimart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
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