E os nossos moranguinhos como estarão?!...
The bad science behind the stuff sprayed on strawberry crops and its impact on the people who pick them.
Nasty stuff: methyl iodide applied to a California farm field.
Pesticides usually do their bug killing away from public view. But one such poison, a fumigant called methyl iodide, has been making headlines.
Activists have been staging elaborate protests outside the San Francisco offices of its maker, Arysta Lifescience, Gristreports. And newly released documents reveal, shall we say, irregularities in the process of its recent approval by the state of California, writes Mother Jones' own Jen Quraishi.
What gives? Labor Day is a good time to ponder that question, because methyl iodide poses a clear menace to farmworkers, especially those who tend California's vast strawberry fields.
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