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With Tuesday's piece on the grape debate titled "Grape Workers Recount Difficult-Conditions." The Crimson has descended further into the realm of tabloid journalism...
Thank goodness it's finally over. After tomorrow, we can look forward to a campus discourse free of produce and hopefully we will also have grapes. Don't believe the UFW propaganda. Grape picking may be unpleasant, but it is not criminally exploitative. Further, grapes are safe. There have been no grape-related deaths in recent memory. Vote for grapes...
Much of the information that has been given by various sides in the Great Grape debate should be taken with a grain of salt...
According to statements released by the Grape Farmers and Workers Coalition (GFWC) in 1989, the five chemicals the United Farm Workers (UFW) protests-dinoseb, parathion, methyl bromide, phosdrin and captan-were either eliminated or scheduled for removal at the time the UFW announced its opposition...
...California grape growers used captan, methyl bromide, and parathion, according to the California Environmental Protection Agency...