Word: parathion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...poor on both sides are united by a struggle just to survive what most Americans can barely imagine. Mothers in the rural El Paso outpost of Revolucion cross into Juarez to buy methyl parathion, a pesticide so lethal it is banned in the U.S. They sprinkle it around their shanties, and it kills the roaches and tarantulas for a year. But their children play in the dust and dirt, and when they get sick, their parents take them to Juarez doctors, who are cheaper and stay open into the night. If the children die, they are buried across the border...
Meanwhile, the insecticide barrage had been augmented by dieldrin, parathion, heptachlor, malathion and other fearful compounds many times stronger than DDT, all of which the government planned to distribute through the Department of Agriculture for public use and commercial manufacture. "The more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became," Carson recalled. "I realized that here was the material for a book. What I discovered was that everything which meant most to me as a naturalist was being threatened, and that nothing I could do would be more important...
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...
...Grape Workers and Farmers Coalition (GFWC) is founded by a Republican-affiliated consulting group. Its purpose is to oppose UFW boycotts. The UFW protests the use of methyl bromide, phosdrin, dinoseb, parathion and captan as pesticides in the fields...