UFW Tells EPA to Stop Using Deadly Organophosphate Pesticides!

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Toxic chemicals are threatening farm worker children.
We need your help.

Farm worker children are being put at daily risk of neurological
and developmental damage due to four deadly organophosphate
pesticides.

These toxic pesticides were derived from nerve gas developed
during World War II. The four organophosphates at issue are
methidathion, oxydemeton-methyl, methamidophos, and ethoprop and
are primarily used in California on a wide variety of fruit,
vegetable, and nut crops.

These toxic chemicals pose a danger to everyone, but especially
to rural children and families when these four pesticides drift
into schoolyards, outdoor play areas, and homes. The EPA has
acknowledged the danger, but has done nothing to protect the
public.

The health of farm workers and their children is much too
important to leave up to bureaucracy. We can't wait any longer,
so last week the UFW and a coalition of farmworker advocates and
environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) to stop the continued use of these four
deadly chemicals.

The UFW is doing all we can to protect farm workers and their
children. That is why we filed this lawsuit, however we want the
EPA to do something now instead of subjecting farm workers to
years of litigation. Tell them to just to do their job and to
protect the public.

Please e-mail the EPA today and tell them to ban these four
toxic pesticides immediately. Stop putting children's health at
risk.

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