Posted on 03/13/2005 3:35:31 PM PST by Pillows
There's more to this, tragic as it is. I grew up watching crop-dusters dust our corn fields with DDT and Lord knows what in the early 60's.
Ok....everyone that wants to pick those tomatoes....raise your hands.
Most commercial tomatoes come from Central America or Mexico, not Florida.
I think it is too easy to just suspect chemicals in use on the fields. This puzzles me.... I wonder if the fathers smoked or ingested some substances that the mothers were not aware of...
A dope dealer could have come through the migrants' living areas when the affected children were conceived, too.
The variations in the defects may indicate there is no common thread to the cases - just a terrible coincidence that can happen. Statistics are just numbers.
What is the answer? Do we grow food here, continue to use pesticides and remove the immigrants.....or should we just close up our farms and buy from mexico, et al?
How terribly sad for the families. I hope they isolate the cause and are able to prevent additional tragedies of this kind.
You're the one who signed up last week and just tossed this out there. You tell me. What's your point?
I won't pick tomatoes in my daughter's garden. I don't like them and they don't like me.
Its a fact of life in the US now. Fedgov (bush or whatever democrat is there) wants them here, business wants them here, they want to be here, and that is pretty much all it takes. My only addition is that we should ALL be grateful that our southern labor importation area is hispanic and catholic, rather than Europe's labor importation area, which is predominantly muslim.
As american voters hopefully will catch on to at some point, it is hard to make policy changes through elections when you live in a duopoly-party system.
We already and have for many years been buying from Mexico, as well as Central and South America. Where do you think those peaches and strawberries in January come from?
SO9
I'm sorry you don't like questions asked. I don't have the answer....do you?
I know. I remember how those kids in California and one of the Carolinas got deathly sick on the strawberries from Mexico....
The birth defects are similar to those caused by thalidomide in the 1960's.
As I tried to make evident in #4. The situation shouldn't be such that the question has to be asked.
thalidomide was the first thing that came to my head...though it is probable from reading the article that these migrants became pregnant IN the US.
I don't know what the cause of this is but I would like to know what % of pregnancies in this group of people they represent in the time period in question.
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