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Stop the Toxic Shower Campaign |
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Banana plantations utilize various agricultural production practices
that harm people and environment. One of this is aerial spraying,
where pesticides are sprayed to bananas using airplanes.
Unfortunately, the pesticide does not just land on the bananas.
Because of the unavoidable wind drift, the pesticide drifts to people,
their houses, other crops, water springs, etc.
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20 Reasons to Ban Aerial Spraying in Davao City |
1) All pesticides are hazardous since they are made of chemicals
designed to kill or inhibit the growth of an organism considered as
pest by humans but they can kill humans too. All banned pesticides
today were once claimed as safe when they first came out.
2) According to the National Research Council in the US, only 10% of
pesticides in common use have been adequately assessed for hazards1. We
do not know the long-term effects of most of them. Pesticides are like
time bombs killing a lot of people. In fact according to the World
Health Organization and United Nations Environment Programme, as many
as 25 million people are seriously poisoned by pesticides every year.
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