Colored people, America’s most vulnerable to agricultural toxins

The results of a new study show that people of color and low-income communities in the United States are more at risk of pesticides and chemical pesticides used in agriculture, IRNA reported on Tuesday, citing the Guardian website.

According to the British newspaper, the new study argues that nearly 90% of pesticides in the United States are used in agriculture, and more than 83% of Hispanic farmers are more vulnerable.

“Agricultural workers are considered insignificant, and studies in this area show a kind of systematic neglect,” said Robert Bullard, co-author of the study and director of the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at the University of South Texas. To the health and safety of agricultural workers.

The study used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and existing research on pesticides. Systematic injustices, regulatory loopholes, and poor support Shows farm workers and indicates that farmers of mostly colored skin are exposed to pesticides.

“Twelve of the 14 signs of exposure to harmful pesticides that have been detected in the last 20 years indicate that the amount of these harmful substances in the blood and urine of colored people is five times higher than the Guardian,” the Guardian wrote, citing another study. He is an American white man.

“The laws and regulatory measures we currently have are a factor in the continuation of this issue,” said Nathan Danley, director of environmental health sciences at the Center for Biodiversity and one of the authors of the report.

“We need to get rid of these pesticides and find alternatives,” said Ginny Economos, coordinator of the Pesticide Safety and Environmental Health Project at the Florida Farmers Association. Not only do they poison farmers, but they have also infiltrated groundwater, food and soil.

According to experts, communities living on the outskirts of cities are at greater risk of these toxins, either because of their proximity to pesticide factories or because they are used at home.

In the states of California, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri, people of color make up about 38 percent of the population, and of those 38 percent, more than 63 percent are within a mile of one of the 31 pest facilities. Live cache that the US Environmental Protection Agency has declared a gross violation of environmental laws since November.

Recent research also indicates the negative effects of pesticides on children’s development and learning disabilities and other behavioral problems.

In November, Sen. Corey Booker of New Jersey introduced the U.S. Child Protection Act against pesticides, which bans some of the most harmful pesticides that are banned in the European Union and significantly restricted in Canada.

But after the bill was introduced, more than 350 organizations using the pesticides, including agricultural groups and golf clubs, sent a letter to Congress opposing the bill.