Word: toxicants
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cherish human rights, we must address the gross injustices farmworkers face on a daily basis. No one should be forced to be exposed to toxic chemicals. No one should be forced to accept intolerable and inhumane working conditions. No one should be kept silent by fear to accept a life that causes pain, loss and death. We as an institution cannot let apathy set in. As Martin Luther King Jr. said, injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Vote to keep grapes off our tables. --Sergio Campos '00, Roel Saldivar '01, RAZA
...roads lead to Rome," he said. "What we mean is that a childhood environment determines whether a child becomes a toxic or nontoxic member of the society...
...TOXIC TEA? Kombucha tea, touted as a health tonic, may cause dizziness, nausea or even liver damage. Commercial brands are fine. The problem is with teas made from scratch--which requires fermenting Kombucha mushrooms at home...
Salmonella, campylobacter and toxic forms of E. coli all get their start in animals' intestines. They can spill out in the slaughterhouse and make their way into food...
...people noticed or cared when the Union of Concerned Scientists sent a petition with 1,500 signatures to the White House calling for international measures to curb global warming, we should not be particularly surprised. I admit to guilt as well--after talk of Earthly destruction from ozone depletion, toxic pollutants and every fruit, vegetable or meat, it doesn't take much effort or worry to add another potential hazard to the list of threats to the environment. What would Rachel Carson think of this new attitude...