Word: grapes
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...disease. With health-conscious Americans including less red meat in their diets, the FDA's thin line of inspectors has been forced to monitor increasing amounts of seafood, imported fruits and vegetables, and chicken and eggs. A number of spectacular food- tampering cases, like last March's poisoned Chilean grape case (only two tainted grapes were discovered), forced the agency to reassign up to one-third of all FDA inspectors for long periods of time. "When an emergency comes along," says one FDA official, "we stop doing things we were scheduled to do and divert people elsewhere...
...boycott is intended to convince grape growers that their workers are as important as their produce--convince them, in other words, to negotiate with the union about pesticides...
Chavez said a consumer boycott was the only effective way for the UFW to force grape growers to stop using what it considers carcinogenic pesticides. "The boycott works," Chavez said repeatedly...
Chavez said the purpose behind the boycott is not to eliminate the grape growers' market entirely but to cut back on grape sales by about 11 percent. Such a fall in sales would persuade grape growers to deal with the union but would not hurt the grape worker, Chavez said...
Lowell House Master William H. Bossert '59 said pesticides only increase grape yield by 7 to 10 percent, adding that "the underlying problem is the pesticide companies. They're the only losers in this [if the grape growers stop using pesticides...