92 Children Believed to Be Poisoned by Monsanto Weed Killer in Peru
92 Children Believed to Be Poisoned by Monsanto Weed Killer in Peru
Published 19 May 2016 (7 hours 13 minutes ago)
A crop-spraying plane was responsible for poisoning the students in the municipality of Nepena.
A plane spraying herbicides near a school poisoned 92 children and 3 teachers on Wednesday in northern Peru. The students of the San Jose high school were left vomiting, fainting, while suffering from stomach pains, headaches, and eyes irritation after the plane allegedly sprayed glyphosate — the active ingredient of Monsanto's Roundup weed killer — during a fumigation of a nearby sugar cane field.
“We have four very serious cases, in which the children have been transferred unconscious with IVs to the Regional Hospital of Nuevo Chimbote. The others are receiving attention in San Jacinto and the Essalud hospital in Nepeña,” said city manager Benito Agreda
Environmental rights activists have called for the component to be banned, and the World Health Organization has said that it "probably" causes cancer.
Investigators say the spraying done by Agroindustrias San Jacinto didn’t have a municipal permit, and the justice department will launch an investigation. Spokesmen for the company said it will cover health care costs for those affected and clean the fields.
More:
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/92-Children-Poisoned-by-Monsanto-Weed-Killer-in-Peru-20160519-0043.html
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And on multiple levels. I see no evidence that you care about the victims. You seem more focused on attacking something else. Lame. And you know I'm being kind.
What kind of person are you? Your response tells all.
Somehow you think that non-GMO sugar, which uses more toxic products, not too mention the environmental degradation caused by sugar cane plantations magically doesn't do those things.
On organics, perhaps!
These paintings were created by Colombian school children attempting to describe the destruction caused in their own home areas by the government Round-up spraying campaign. I've seen tons of them, and they all carry the same message:
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Colombia: Chemical Spraying of Coca Poisoning Villages
by Hugh O'Shaughnessy, The Observer (London)
June 17th, 2001
Bogota -- Franci sits on the veranda and whimpers. The little girl is underweight. Her armpits are erupting in boils. Like most of her people, she has suffered from respiratory problems and stomach pains since the aircraft and the helicopter gunships came over at Christmas and again at New Year dropping toxic pesticides on their villages.
The tiny indigenous Kofan community of Santa Rosa de Guamuez in Colombia had it hard enough with pressures from settlers on their reservation, without Roundup Ultra containing Cosmoflux 411F, a weedkiller that is being sprayed on their villages in a concentration 100 times more powerful than is permitted in the United States.
Aurelio, a Kofan village elder, shows us around his village. The Kofan have been here 500 years. Now it looks as though their time is up. Pineapples are stunted and shriveled. The once green banana plants are no more than blackened sticks. The remains of a few maize plants can be seen here and there, but the food crops have been devastated. There is hunger at Santa Rosa. He is close to despair.
Colombian babies and children are falling ill. Peasants, already miserably poor, are getting hungrier. Indigenous tribes are being torn apart and whole communities pushed into exile.
More:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/02/27/464886/-Bush-Policy-of-Spraying-Poison-on-Children#
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Anyone who takes the time to think about this isn't going to be fooled, no matter how many humps feel driven to disprove the obvious.
Little to be "skeptical" about with such a merger, eh?
