The perils pesticide
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is grown, soap is frequently not available, while many farmers have never even seen a doctor. Further, it is impossible to avoid polluting streams in the hilly tobacco-growing areas, as rainwater washes straight off the fields into the nearest watercourse. Already there have been mysterious deaths in remote villages with pesticides in the water supply being suspected.
Polluting
Another company involyed in polluting Kenya is ICI, whose subsidiary in Kenya markets Aldrin, as well as another ICI product 'Ambush', which it advertises as 'safe for you and the environment' - a direct lie, as no pesticide has been proven safe, and many have been proven dangerous.
British capitalism is not the only capitalism guilty of selling products to the Third World which are banned at home, but it is one of the largest exporters of pesticides to the Third World, supplying over 12% of the world market, risking the health of millions of farmworkers. and killing thousands every year, according to Oxfam.
Our labour movement should be demanding safeguards for the health of Third World workers and peasants, similar to those we demand tor ourselves Info: Nen Seientist!
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Socialist Organiser no.83 May 6, 1982 Page 13