Salvador DeAnda has cancer and has been undergoing chemotherapy treatments. Hismother, Alicia, blames Captan jor her son's illness.

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9, now has cancer. He is suffering fromnon-Hodgkins lymphoma.

Alicia maintains that she, her· hus­band, and Salvador have been exposedto Captan at Caratan ranches. Captan isa widely used fungicide known to causecancer, birth defects and changes ingenetic material.

"When my husband was irrigating,they sprayed a lot of that stuff - thatCaptan," Alicia said. "We knew it wasCaptan because we heard the foremenand other people say that's what itwas. "

The DeAndas have three children;Salvador is the oldest. Alicia worked inthe Caratan fields until her eighth monthof each pregnancy. She worked forCaratan for nine years but had to quit inFebruary to take care of her ailing son.Antonio has worked for Caratan for

A Child's Future

A ntonio DeAnda used to take hisson, Salvador, with him when he

worked in the table grape fields at M.Caratan ranches in Delano, CA. WhileSalvador watched his father irrigate theland, Antonio would tell his son aboutthe value of education.

Antonio encouraged his son to do wellin school so that, one day, Salvadorwould have a better life.

"My husband would tell Salvador notto miss school," Alicia DeAnda,Salvador's mother, said. "He was tryingto show Salvador that working in thefield is very hard."

Alicia said that while these lessonswere occurring, pesticides were beingsprayed nearby. The DeAndas knowthat pesticides are harmful, but theyhave never been told how dangeroussome pesticides are. Salvador DeAnda,

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Volume 3, Number 7

Food and Justice

August 1986

~Arturo RodriguezArturo MendozaOscar MondragonBen Maddock

Magazine of the UnitedFarm Workers ofAmerica, AFL·CIOLa Paz, Keene, CA 93570

Nallonal Executive Board:

President:Cesar ChavezSecretary·Treasurer:Peter VelascoFirst Vice·President:Dolores HuertaSecond Vice·President:Frank OrtizThird Vice·President:David Martinez

FOOD AND JUSTICE (ISSN0885-0704) is published monthlyfor $5 per year by the United FarmWorkers of America, AFL·CIO, OldHighway 58, La Paz, California93570. Application to mail atsecond·c1ass postage rates ispending at Keene, California.POSTMASTER: Send addresschanges to FOOD AND JUSTICE,P.O. 62, La Paz, California 93570.

W hat are California grape growers try­ing to hide?

Why have they reacted so bitterly to our repeatedrequests that they take part in a joint project to test tablegrapes for pesticide residues?

If, as Bruce Obbink, president of the California TableGrape Commission, recently suggested, the grapegrowers are already doing a good enough job policingthemselves, why would they fear the results of such atest? Are they more concerned with their reputationthan the lives of consumers?

The proposal we are suggesting should not be threat­ening to grape growers if they have nothing to hide. Itonly asks:• that table grapes be tested by an independent

laboratory,• that the test be a random sampling at the supermarket

level,• that the results of the test be made public, and• that the growers share expenses of the testing project

with us.Because consumers have loyally helped us in past

boycotts, we are as concerned about the pesticide threatto them as we are to farm workers. We doubt if growersshare the same concern for consumers. If they did,wouldn't they welcome the opportunity to prove it?

If grape growers continue to ignore our proposal, weintend to go ahead without them. We have nothing tohide. y2

EDITORIAL

Salvador says that the other children no longer play with him. He says they are afraidthey will catch his cancer.

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Yaksitch - was content to seek civilinstead of criminal charges against them.

But many other growers asking forreimbursement were just as guilty as theother three. Dr. Kenneth W. Kizer,director of the California Department ofHealth Services, warned that the use ofaldicarb appeared to be uncontrolled.Sales of aldicarb were far higher than thelegally required "use" reports growersmust file after applying the pesticide.

As usual, there seemed t.9-l?e little con­cern for the farm workers of',the peoplewho were poisoned. Asked Assembly­man Lloyd Connelly (D-Sacramento):"Why shouldn't we at least providecompensation for the farm workers wholost their jobs or for the people who suf­fered medical costs as a result of eatingthe watermelons?"

(Ed. note: If you know anyone who waspoisoned by watermelons last year, wewould like to hear from you.) Y

N early 1,200 people in the westernpart of the U.S. and Canada

became ill during the long July 4weekend last year after some Californiagrowers' watermelons were found to becontaminated by Union Carbide's aldi­carb (Temik), the most acutely toxicpesticide registered in the U.S. andillegal for use on watermelons.

Now, a year later, hundreds of thou­sands of taxpayers in California are evensicker. They will have to foot a $6.2million bill to reimburse growers andretailers for their losses when a measureexpected to be approved soon by theCalifornia legislature becomes law. Twolegislators called the bill "an outrageousgiveaway.' ,

Clare Berryhill, who is himself agrower while at the same time serving asthe director of the California Depart­ment of Food and Agriculture and wholast year threatened to "nail to thecross" three guilty Kern County growers- Gary Icardo, Jimmy Icardo, and Tim

Growers Poison Watermelon Crop .Taxpayers Foot Reimbursement Bill

Last year Governor Deukmejian (right)signed legislation paving the way forgrowers to be reimbursed for water­melon losses - Qut nothing for farmworkers or consumers.

advised Antonio to rub the dangerouspesticide on his rash to "dry it up."Caratan capped this absurd advice bytelling the DeAndas that he himself usedCaptan. "He said that he used to use it[Captan] on his face for his pimples,"Alicia said.

Alicia blames Captan for her son's ill­ness. She related her feelings when thedoctor told her her son has cancer. "Itwas a shock to us when we found out,"she said. "No one in our family hascancer. I asked, 'Why him?' "

Because of his illness, Salvador hasnot attended school since February. Hisparents wanted so much for him to havea promising future. Now they arefighting just to keep hi~alive.

The DeAndas are frightened. "Theother day Salvador came to me," Aliciasaid. "He told me that he dreamed thecancer spread throughout his body andhe died. Sometimes he asks us to let himdie."

As for Caratan, he just keeps ondocking Antonio's wages when he has totake Salvador to the hospital for cancertreatments.~

twelve years.Alicia said that when they discovered

Salvador had cancer, they were told bytheir doctor to take their son tospecialists at UCLA. "My husband tolda foreman that he had to take Salvadorto UCLA because he has cancer," Aliciasaid. "The foreman fired my husband."

Days later Alicia talked to Caratan.She told the grower about her son's ill­ness. Caratan, with all the kindness hecould muster, gave Antonio his jobback. He did not offer to compensateAntonio for the wages he lost.

Antonio losing wages and almost hisjob is not the only injustice the DeAndashave suffered at Caratan's hands. Con­sider this story of brutality.

Alicia said that Antonio had a rash onhis foot which kept recurring. Antoniobelieved the rash was caused by the rub­ber boots he wore as an irrigator.Antonio wanted to switch jobs to onethat did not require boots.

When the DeAndas told Caratanabout the rash, the grower respondedthis way. Alicia said, "Caratan told us,'Here's some Captan. That's reallygood.' " Alicia explained that Caratan

Labor OfficialBecomes FirstSolidarity Member

H arry VandenBosche Springrecently became the first individ­

ual to join the United Farm Workers'Solidarity program. His weekly dona­tions make him an associate member ofthe union.

When Spring was 13 years old, hegave up his bed for a night so that CesarChavez would have a place to sleep.Chavez was speaking in Spring's Floridahometown.

"My dad was with the National Coun­cil of Churches' migrant ministry whenhe asked Cesar to stay at our house forthe night," Spring said. "I gladly gaveup my bed - it was a big kick and agreat honor."

That act of generosity was in 1967. In1974, Spring, a political science studentat the University of South Florida, metChavez once again when the unionleader came to speak to a UFW supportgroup.

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HARRY SPRING

"I learned then," Spring said, "thatconsistency of belief brings honor andrespect." He praised Chavez for hisbelief that powerless people have toorganize in order to be forceful in a non­violent way.

Spring, who is now 32 years old mar­ried and a father of two boys, mo~ed toMissouri where he became the secretary­tr~asure~ of the Greater Kansas City,MIssourI Labor Council. Spring's labororganization recently hosted Chavez insupport of the "Wrath of Grapes"boycott.

Spring will continue supporting farmworkers as a Solidarity member and he~i11 receive union recognition, publica­tIOns and boycott information.

"The UFW is an organization I'veadmired and respected almost all mylife," Spring said. "I've learned manythings from the farm worker struggleand it's the least I can do in return."y

UFWNowBoycotting ALLTable Grapes!

Since the United Farm Workersannounced the beginning of a new

boycott of California table grapes inmid-1984, a small percentage - approx­imately 3070 - was not being boycotted.But now ALL California table grapesare the object of the boycott.

That situation developed recentlywhen the David Freedman Company, alarge corporate table grape groweremploying more than 1200 workers inthe Coachella Valley, joined the ranks ofall other California table grape growersby refusing to take seriously the threatof pesticide poisoning to its own workerspicking grapes in the vineyards as well asto consumers buying table grapescovered with pesticide residues.

Ben Maddock, general manager of the

Billy Steinberg, negotiator forFreedman, made ridiculous con­tract proposals and caved in togrower pressure.

UFW Grape and Tree Fruit Division,said Freedman could no longer stand upto pressure from other growers whoknow Freedman is as reckless withpestides as they are and yet was able tocarry the UFW eagle on its grape car­tons. "Steinberg [Lionel, president ofFreedman] tried to make preposterouscontract proposals we couldn't acceptlook like the issue, but that didn't foolus - we know he caved in to the pres­sure," he said.

Freedman will no longer be able todisplay the UFW eagle on its grapes."It's a full-scale battle now," Maddocksaid, "and no matter how long it takes,we'll win it with our best nonviolentweapon - the boycott." y

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A local newspaper article stated thatfour of the six McFarland wells havehigh nitrate concentrations. Nitrateshave been linked to cancer and primarilyaffect children.

The mayor said that while he knowsthat infants should not drink the water,he believes that the water is not "harm­ful." When the facts from the news­paper were pointed out to Boston, heseemed puzzled. He said, "I don't recallreading the article." Maybe a subscrip­tion to the local newspaper would keepBoston up to date on his town'sproblems.

The president of the board of direc­tors of the McFarland water company,Fred Haas, was equally evasive.

Haas said he knows the followingfacts. Nitrates have been linked tocancer. Some of McFarland's wells havehigh nitrate concentrations. Pregnantwomen and infants are advised againstdrinking the town's water.

Despite all he knows, Haas made thefollowing request to a UFW reporter:"Please don't try to tie these [the cancercluster and the nitrates in the water]together. "

Haas was asked about the source ofthe contamination. He said, "My ownpersonal theory is that it [the contamina­tion] comes from an excessive use ofnitrogens on our crops."

Haas is unsure about what can bedone in the future. He claims that even ifgrowers stopped using nitrates today, itmay take "50 years" to remove themcompletely from the water.

Carlos Sanchez is also unsure aboutthe future. But Sanchez has more atstake than the town's mayor or the watercompany official. Sanchez' life is atstake.

"I'm just hoping for the best," San­chez said. Y'

Carlos Sanchez (opposite page) is thelatest McFarland cancer victim.

Another CancerCase StrikesMcFarland

T he number of children diagnosedwith cancer in McFarland, CA

since 1981 has risen to 12. The town of6200 people is considered a "cancercluster," because there is 400070 theexpected rate of cancer in McFarland.Many of the community's residentsblame the town's water. They believethat the water has been contaminated bypesticides and nitrates used by growerswhose fields surround the town. (SeeMay 1986 issue.)

Carlos Sanchez is the twelfth cancervictim. Although Sanchez is 20 now, hehas had cancerous tumors for five years.

Sanchez has Hodgkin's disease. Thisdisease is a progressive, and sometimesfatal, form of cancer.

Since Sanchez was diagnosed he hashad three tumors, his spleen, part of hisliver, and some other glands surgicallyremoved.

Sanchez said that he knows there is ahigher than normal rate of cancer inMcFarland. He also knows that many ofthe cancer victims' parents blame thetown's water.

Who is responsible for contaminatingthe water and for cleaning it up is a con­troversy in the town. The mayor ofMcFarland, Carl Boston, has no doubtsabout his responsibilities. He said thathe doesn't know "what should bedone." Boston added, "You can't doanything if you don't know what theproblem is."

Boston is unaware of more than justthe town's problems. When interviewed,he did not even know that some of thewells in McFarland have nitrate concen­tration rates higher than the state stan­dards. Boston believes that the fact thatMcFarland has a cancer rate 400%higher than that experts expect "mightbe coincidental."

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Francisco Cuevas with his son, Francisco, who was sprayed with Monitor-4, said,"First they poisoned us and then they treated us like animals. "

More Farm Workers PoisonedGrower Attempts Cover-up

Vineyard and PilotCited for Violations

N apa Valley Vineyards of Napa,CA and Stephen Wilder, a crop

duster, were cited for pesticide applica­tion violations on June 10, 1986. Thecitations came during a Napa CountyAgriculture Department investigationinto a poisoning incident which occurredin May at the vineyards. (See June 1986Food and Justice.)

Readers may recall that Wilder, ahelicopter pilot, repeatedly sprayed sixwomen workers from the company. Theworkers believe that Wilder sprayedthem deliberately.

The county agriculture departmentcited Napa Valley Vineyards for failingto protect its workers from the pesticidepoisoning and failing to take theworkers to a doctor after the spraying.

The same agency cited Wilder for"application of pesticide when there wasa hazard of contamination" to workers.

This citation came after Wilder sub­mitted a letter to the company in whichhe admitted seeing the women before he

sprayed them. In his letter, Wilder main­tains that he "motioned" the workers toleave. He does not mention why hesprayed some of the women six times.

The report from the investigatingagency found evidence that Wilder knewthe workers were there "and yet con­tinued his application."

Also in the report is an incidentinvolving a Napa Valley supervisor,Scott Wharton. The women went imme­diately to Wharton after being sprayedand reported the incident. Wharton toldthe investigating officer that he read thepesticide label, and it advised workers tothoroughly wash out their eyes, skin andclothing if exposed. Wharton told theinvestigating officer that he "guessedthey [the women] had some eye dropsand washed up."

And so the management of NapaValley Vineyards once again showed itsconcern for worker safety.

The county's investigation is stillcontinuing. yo

A nother horror story in the never­ending series of farm worker

pesticide poisonings unfolded for Fran­cisco and Rosalinda Cuevas and their31-person crew as they began a day ofhoeing cotton early on July 2 at HarrisFarms in Coalinga, California.

Foreman Sergio Reyna had failed totell them that the field had just beensprayed with the dangerous pesticide,Monitor-4. Within minutes, the crewdisplayed severe poisoning symptoms:headaches, eye irritation, vomiting, diz­ziness, skin rashes, and memory loss.

Seven women fainted but instead ofbeing taken to the hospital in Coalinga,they were driven to a Fresno clinic, 50miles away, where a company doctorgave them two Tylenols, told them toshower, and okayed them for work thenext day. "But it wasn't till days later,"

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said Albert Adame, the UFW represen­tative who investigated the poisonings,"that the doctor warned the women notto get pregnant for a year!"

The rest of the crew, also ill, weretaken to a park for a couple hours andthen sent home with orders to report towork the next day.

The next day Harris officials threat­ened to fire the workers and evict themfrom company housing if they toldanyone about the poisoning. But theCuevases and several other workers werenot scared off. "First they poisoned usand then treated us like animals," Fran­cisco said. "I'll lose my job before Ikeep quiet about what they did to us."

UFW personnel have already securedlegal aid to assist the poisoned HarrisFarms workers. Y

Crop duster, Stephen Wilder, was citedfor pesticide violations by the NapaCounty agricultural department.

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Federico Sayre is a Los Angeles attorney representing LoBue workers.

Workers Still Suffering,Uniroyal Recalls Pesticide

company had performed more than22,000 safety tests for drug and chemicalmanufacturers in the United States. TheFood and Drug Administration beganinvestigating IBT and found that at least90 percent of some 900 tests initiallyexamined proved invalid or fabricated.

IBT had tested.-One-third of the activeingredients in all pesticides used in theUnited States. Captan was among 200chemicals the EPA deemed safe basedon IBT reports. After nine years, theEPA recently reevaluated Captan anddetermined it should not be used on anyfood product. Unfortunately, the EPAissued a tolerance level anyway becauseeconomic interests outweighed healthrisks.

Government scientists suspect it willtake at least 30 years before the damagedone by IBT can be corrected. Mean­while, consumers and farm workersserve as guinea pigs for manufacturersand' government agencies. yo

Gaps in Test Data EndangerConsumers and Farm Workers

Consumers deserve residue-free produce.

T he United Farm Workers hasmade cancer-causing pesticide

residue on food a major issue in the cur­rent boycott of California table grapes.

While growers claim the amount ofpesticide left on produce is harmless andwithin legal limits, Cesar Chavez, publichealth scientists, the Occupational Safetyand Health Administration, and con­sumer groups believe that no level ofresidue is safe and that the Environmen­tal Protection Agency has used fraudu­lent or inadequate data to set safetystandards.

Take Captan, for instance. Captan isa fungicide widely used in Californiavineyards and believed to cause cancerand birth defects. Captan is the residuemost often found on California grapes.The EPA originally set the tolerance forthis pesticide using fraudulent test datafrom Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories ofNorwood, Illinois.

The story and controversy surround­ing IBT began to unravel in 1977. The

when Uniroyal recalled Omite CR fromthe market in California. The companybegan collecting the pesticide in June.

Thirdly, Uniroyal has agreed to takeliability for the poisoned workers and istaking legal responsibility for damages.

The last development concerns the"CR" in Omite CR. Uniroyal lawyersrecently revealed that CR stands for"California Recipe." This untested anddangerous pesticide was allowed to beused by unprotected workers and endedup on fruit sent to consumers. Sayresaid, "The CR portion is, we think, theculprit. "

The UFW believes Uniroyal andLoBue are the culprits. Uniroyal shouldnot only take legal responsibility but alsomoral responsibility for the hundreds ofworkers their chemical poisoned.

LoBue should take responsibility, too.They shipped and packed the producetreated with Omite CR to unsuspectingconsumers. Y

I na recent issue of Food and Justice(June 1986) we reported that hun­

dreds of citrus workers, many fromLoBue Brothers in Lindsay, CA werepoisoned in May by the pesticide, OmiteCR.

Readers may recall that workersexposed to Omite CR (manufactured byUniroyal) suffered from chemical burns.LoBue Bros. personnel and a Uniroyal­hired doctor predicted a full recovery forthe workers.

In the past few weeks there have beensome new developments.

First, not all the workers are recover­ing. In fact, some are still suffering.Some say they are losing their vision.

Federico Sayre, a Los Angeles attor­ney who represents almost 100 victimsfrom LoBue, said that of the 50 workerswho have been medically examined "33complained of eye problems."

Also, according to Sayre, "Some peo­ple continue to have persistent burns."

The second development occurred

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Table Grape Official InsultsChavez and Consumers Addenda

B ruce Obbink, president of theCalifornia Table Grape Commis­

sion, has never been known for weighinghis words before he speaks, being accu­rate when he speaks, or worrying aboutthe damage he's done after he speaks.

But some of Obbink's incredible com­ments - as he followed farm laborleader Cesar Chavez around the countrytrying to deflect the effects of the tablegrape boycott - represented a new lowin both his attacks on Chavez and hisinsults to people sincerely concernedabout the threat of pesticides on tablegrapes and other produce.

Within past months, Obbink has calledChavez an "S.O.B. (California Journal)and a "politically motivated conniver"lusting to become the "czar" of all farmworkers (Desert Rancher).

But his most irresponsible remark wasan insult to both consumers as well as

Chavez and farm workers: "The pesti­cide issue is probably the most scurrilousattack the UFW could come up with ­reminiscent of tactics of the Third ReichMinister Joseph Goebbels, who believedthat preying on the fears of the people isthe most effective propaganda tool"(Desert Rancher).

Would the 300,000 farm workersreported by the World Resources Insti­tute to be poisoned by agriculturalpesticides each year say Chavez was justpreying on their fears?

Would the 1,200 people who becamesick a year ago from Union Carbide'spesticide aldicarb in watermelons sayChavez was just preying on their fears?

If grape consumers were aware ofresidues of the pesticide Captan foundon table grapes tested in Ohio, wouldthey say Chavez was just preying ontheir fears? Y

Pandol Stages Deceptive Show

In the July food and Justice, wereported that the grower, Jack Pandol,endangers his workers who handlepesticides because he does not give themprotective equipment.

In the second week of July, whenseveral of the sprayers arrived to work,they were met by company supervisors.The sprayers were given new overalls,caps, gloves, boots, goggles and breath­ing masks. When the sprayers weredressed in their new gear, a companyofficial videotaped them working.

Perh"ps Pandol was anticipating theexpose which appeared in this magazinelast month. The protective clothing andequipment were taken away immediatelyafter the filming. The workers remainunprotected.

dent Cesar Chavez announced thatmany members of the union's staff willbe leaving California. The staff will beworking in cit-ies across the U.S. andCanada, informing consumers of thethree boycott demands - the banning offive dangerous pesticides; free and fairunion elections; and good faith bargain­ing from growers.

UFW Convention To Be HeldThis Month

On August 30, the UFW will hold itseighth convention in Bakersfield, CA.The theme of this year's convention is"The Wrath of Grapes." Union mem­bers from across the nation areexpected to attend the convention.

Bruce Obbink, president ofthe Table Grape Commis­sion, in a rare momentwith his mouth closed.

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Grower Quote Of The Month

This comes from Stewart Truelsen ofthe American Farm Bureau Federationand appeared in the farm bureau maga­zine, Ag Alert, 7/9/86. Truelsen wrote,"My first thought is why are pesticidesalways labeled 'deadly' by the press.Pesticides do the same job for plantsthat medicines do for humans."

UFW Sends Staff Out On Boycott

The leadership of the United FarmWorkers of America has stepped up itstable grape boycott campaign.

In a recent staff meeting, UFW Presi-

Just When You Thought It Was SafeTo Eat Watermelons

Last month California agriculturalinspectors discovered a watermelon fieldcontaminated with the pesticide,Orthene. Use of Orthene on water­melons is illegal, and the field wasplowed under.

An agricultural commissioner said thepesticide had been applied to beans but"drifted" to the watermelon field. Con-.sidering that less than 15070 of sprayedpesticides reach their target, we can onlywonder what other toxic chemicals haveended up on other watermelons becausethey have gone undetected by stateofficials. Y

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