In the ’70s and ’80s, the banana companies Dole, Del Monte and Chiquita used a carcinogenic pesticide, Nemagon, to protect their crops in Nicaragua. Today, the men and women who worked on those plantations suffer from incurable illnesses. Their children are deformed. The companies feign innocence. CHINANDEGA, Nicaragua—Carlos Alberto Rodriguez sits prostrate in his rocking chair all day, from dawn… return to article
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Reader Comments (27)Page 1 of 1 pagesNicaragua? Let’s start worrying about how the FDA has been bought by agro-industry and the poisons, antibiotics, pathogens, and hormones they have approved to make your food spoil-proof, fake ripeness and colorful.
Silbestrol, a hormone is a growth stimulant fed to beef cattle. It ends up in you. Propylene Glycol, an antifreeze keeps shredded coconut fresh. The processed nuts you buy are treated with acetylated monoglyceride and last for years without spoiling, Why do your bakery products remain fresh forever? butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) and butylatedhydroxyanisole (BHA) makes the product everlasting,not you.
Ice Cream? No cream, but lots of carboxymethylcelluose. Lots of nitrate, a heart stimulating in hot dogs ( keeps ‘em red.)
Tomatoes are treated with ethylene chloride gas to make them look red.
Cattle? Chickens? ...dosed with antibiotics so they don’t die from the garbage they are fed, indoors, never out browsing on the range. Yes, agro-industry owns our FDA. Let’s stop worrying about Nicaragua while we are poisoned here at home.
Posted by Art on May 10, 2005 at 1:08 PM Art,
Isn’t that the plan? Put Libertarian and radical right-wing judges in our courts so that industry can do what it likes, unfettered and piling up the profits?
Total deregulation, “peaceful anarchy”, “best government is less” because, you and I know, industry will regulate itself with an eye toward the good of mankind and not its profit margins.
Posted by Margaret on May 10, 2005 at 1:17 PM “Let’s stop worrying about Nicaragua while we are poisoned here at home” - how compassionate, how caring, how so very American. Please, let’s not give a crap about anyone in the world besides us.
Posted by Ethel on May 10, 2005 at 3:20 PM Life’ll kill ya, and then you’ll be dead. That’s what he (Warren Zevon) said before he was dead.
And then there was the infamous remark rocker Grace Slick once made to a conscientious late night waitress: “I don’t care if my lettuce has DDT in it, honey, as long as it’s crisp!” And isn’t that about how things are? Our society is more concerned about getting those five servings a day and our markets depend on offering all that flawless produce, by design. And even still, you’ll pick out those veggies or fruits that have the least amount of blemishes. Am I right?
Drinking alcohol is also dangerously detrimental to the human liver, but hey, if it makes you feel good, then it can’t be all bad? Right, or not? And who controls alcohol? What, all this time you thought YOU were in control?
I think it’s a real shame that autochthonous people are forbidden to control their own destiny where demand for that which is indigenous to their own sovereign land is concerned. We hear our own president apologize for allowing tyranny to take hold after W.W.II, but would he ever apply or otherwise express that same empathy to those exploited workers in Nicaragua and elsewhere? Don’t hold your breath.
And now this: The first ski lift in the U.S. (Sun Valley, Idaho) was developed using technology borrowed from the banana plantations. Be proud. Be grateful you’re not picking bananas in Nicaragua, but at the same time just remember the fruits of laborer’s in Nicaragua, and those of others, are slowly killing you. Banana daiquiri, anyone?
Posted by Tim Christopher on May 10, 2005 at 3:53 PM Investigate the consequences of the United States’ use of depleted uranium munitions in Iraq in 1991 and in the present invasion and occupation:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1112-01.htm
‘ At the Saddam Teaching Hospital in Basra, Dr. Jawad Al-Ali, a British-trained oncologist, displays, in four gaily colored photo albums, what he says are actual snapshots of the nightmares.
‘ The photos represent the surge in birth defects—in 1989 there were 11 per 100,000 births; in 2001 there were 116 per 100,000 births—that even before they heard about DU, had doctors in southern Iraq making comparisons to the birth defects that followed the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII.
‘ There were photos of infants born without brains, with their internal organs outside their bodies, without sexual organs, without spines, and the list of deformities went on and on. There also were photos of cancer patients.
‘ Cancer has increased dramatically in southern Iraq. In 1988, 34 people died of cancer; in 1998, 450 died of cancer; in 2001 there were 603 cancer deaths. ‘
The Weapons of Mass Destruction wielded in Iraq were wielded by George the XLI and are wielded by George XLIII.
Investigate the effects of Agent Orange on the populations of Viet Nam and Cambodia.
We Americans are culpable. We need to look to the Germans for a lesson in admitting the facts of our present and past behavior and its consequences and proceed from there.
The United States marched right down the same road, making all of us war criminals once again, not thiry years after the end of the war in Southeast Asia.
The Germans hold out hope that it doesn’t always have to be like this. We can stop committing war crimes. We can reign in our criminal corporations and government. It does take willpower.
The necessary first step is to stop willfully denying our ongoing behavior. The second is to take responsibility for our actions.
Posted by John Francis Lee on May 10, 2005 at 5:19 PM “Let’s stop worrying about Nicaragua while we are poisoned here at home.”
Try reading the country of origin labels on the food you buy. Nicaragua, China, Viet Nam, Mexico. Maybe a little worry is in order.
Hey kids, it’s not just the factories moving ‘off shore’. The family farm is dead. Agribusiness has taken over and their priority is essentially monoculture. If its not soy or corn, its probably not coming from here a good deal of the time. That’s even true for organics---whose standards are only industry enforced in most countries.
Do you know that DDT is still legal and being used in Mexico? It has a way of not staying put. It is now back in your food supply. Mexico does not plan to phase out its use until 2010. Brazil is another heavy user. Think about that next time you open a carton of orange juice. DDT is being produced and extensively used in China and India, also.
May as well have been as if Rachel Carson never lived and SILENT SPRING was never written.
As the bumper sticker says--If you eat, you’re part of agriculture.
Posted by troubled in the Heatland on May 10, 2005 at 5:59 PM I think we should stop buying Chiquita and Dole products....
Posted by Clara Coen on May 10, 2005 at 6:01 PM The FDA and the USDA are whorehouses, for sale to the highest bidder. Period. Thanks to the GOP (grand ole pimps) America is being reverted into one giant whorehouse.
Posted by Lefty on May 11, 2005 at 5:44 AM I forgot to mention, adverse reactions to FDA approved drugs are THE 4TH LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN AMERICA - 120,000+ per year - not including malpractice (misdosing, misprescribing, misdiagnosing), and not including the 2,000,000 serious not fatal adverse drug reactions.
BTW, these statistics ONLY include adverse events that occurred in hospitals, not in among general public.
Posted by Lefty on May 11, 2005 at 5:49 AM We live in a single world. There is simply no
sense in pretending that problems that exist in
one part of that world can be ignored by the rest
of us. Cab we pretend otherwise?
Posted by jules timerman on May 11, 2005 at 7:12 AM People, we need to start here.... we need to get this notion that the corporation is an “individual” or if “they” claim, should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law just like all individuals. The continued corporatization of our country will be our end.
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Is Wal-Mart a Person? Thom Hartmann Tells Why It Is--Kind of--But Not Really...corporations are asserting that they...should stand side-by-side with humans in having access to the Bill of Rights. Nike asserted...that these corporations have First Amendment rights of free speech. Dow Chemical...asserted it has Fourth Amendment privacy rights and could refuse to allow the EPA to do surprise inspections of its facilities. J.C. Penney asserted...that it had a Fourteenth Amendment right to be free from discrimination—the Fourteenth Amendment was passed to free the slaves after the Civil War—and that communities that were trying to keep out chain stores were practicing illegal discrimination. Tobacco and asbestos companies asserted that they had Fifth Amendment rights to keep secret what they knew about the dangers of their products.
Go to this link for the full article.
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http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/05/01/int05004.html---------
Posted by Impeach Bush on May 11, 2005 at 3:07 PM I just bought my last brand name product. I don’t care how expensive the organic food is at the stores, that is ALL I am buying. Thank you for this WAKE UP article. I shall pass this message on.
Posted by Cynthia Gay Hollin on May 12, 2005 at 10:44 AM Please check out the sensible idea in the interview with Timothy Hermach in Ode cited below.
Why have corporations and their owners and investors been allowed to continue to profit wildly without much concern for the health and well-being of employees and community while their employees lose income, retirement benefits and health itself. We saw the courts just yesterday allow United Air to destroy their employee retirement fund and the USPS says they need another two cents per stamp if they have to maintain an employee fund.Ending a corporation’s right to exist if it is destructive to human beings sounds like self-preservation to me.
What will it take to get us protesting in the streets before any demonstrating labels us gangsters or terrorists?
http://www.odemagazine.com/article.php?aID=4093
‘One last thing...Marco Visscher This article appeared in Ode issue: 23
“We whould have a corporate death penalty.” Says Timothy Hermach.
I beg your pardon? I would say people shouldn’t kill each other.
“I mean, we should have the option of ending a corporate entity when it is knowingly harmful and dishonest about it. If satisfactory corporate accountability is to be obtained such that the public health and well-being becomes paramount rather than corporate profits, we must hold both the corporation and the people making the decisions—the officers and directors—fully and completely liable. These companies should receive the ‘corporate death penalty.’ This means the seizure of all their corporate and personal assets and imprisonment of the business leaders.”
...........’
Posted by Susan on May 12, 2005 at 5:59 PM Dear In These Times:
Thank you so much for this article about the banana workers affected by DBCP (Nemagon)! I would just like to add that two international solidarity organizations have taken the lead in a campaign to obtain justice for Nicaragua’s banana workers. They are the Italy-Nicaragua Association, headquartered in Milan, Italy, and the Nicaragua Network, here in the United States. If you would like to take action in support of these workers go to www.nicanet.org and scroll down to “The Fight against Nemagon Continues in Managua!” You can obtain more information about the workers and can link to the Italy-Nicaragua Association web page to send an automatic message to Nicaragua’s President Bolaños. The www.nicanet.org web page also has sample letters to send to Dole, Dow and Shell Chemical.
The International Union of Foodworkers has recently also taken on the fight of Nicaragua’s banana workers. Interested readers can go to their web site to read more and also send a message to Nicaragua’s president. It is: http://www.iuf.org/en/
Katherine Hoyt
Nicaragua Network
Posted by Katherine Hoyt, Nicaragua Network on May 13, 2005 at 8:47 AM Every summer I teach an art course at a Biological Field Station in the rainforest of north eastern Costa Rica. To get to the site one must travel past miles and miles of banana plantation that were created by clearcutting lowland rainforest. This should be habitat for jaguar, monkeys, and numerous bird species, but instead it is a monoculture standing on bare pink clay. On almost any day without rain the crop dusters can be heard, pumping Nemagon’s replacement onto the bananas and the people working like draft animals in the plantations. The fundamental problem is that neither the forests nor the people are valued by the multinationals. A crippled child does not show up on a balance sheet, but having traveled in Nicaragua I can attest to the fact that they are visible there. Environmental devastation is irrelevant to a profit/loss analysis. If CAFTA is implemented Dole and Dow and Shell will be able to sue any Central American nation that dares to outlaw the pesticides that are now poisoning their citizens, just as Mexico was sued under NAFTA by Metalclad for protecting its citizens from a toxic waste dump. So long as profit is of a higher priority than humanity, much less the environment, atrocities like this will be part of a continuum, rather than tragic isolated incedents.
Posted by Scott Nicol on May 13, 2005 at 10:03 AM Scott,
I’ve said it many times on this forum. Democrats place the interest of public health, safety and welfare above the interest of corporate profits. Republicans place the interest of corporate profits above ALL other interests, every time, no matter what.
Posted by Lefty on May 13, 2005 at 10:27 PM Hi Lefty,
It seems to me that the Demoplicans are just as bought up as the Republicrats. It may be that in the old days the Demoplicans had “branded” themselves as the protectors of the individual in the face of the corporate onslaught, but these days there is no difference between the two branches of the Republicrat/Demoplican Axis.
The Demoplicans voted another $82 billion for the occupation of Iraq and Howard Dean just endorsed George W Bush’s position on the occupation.
The Demoplicans voted with the Republicrats to gut the bankruptcy laws.
And it’s been this way for years. Christopher Dodd, the son of Tom Dodd, a Demoplican Senator from CT censured using campaign funds as his own, worked overtime for his corporate employers against a Presidential veto and gutted the accountancy firewall set up after the last financial meltdown, enabling Kenny Boy Lay and the rest of the Enron mob to steal the pensions of the real companies Enron had taken over and folded into its comic book multinational.
Those are just off the top of my head. Anyone not drinking Demoplican Kool-Aid could give you dozens more.
Wake up and smell the coffee, Lefty. There’s gotta be a Third Way or we’re doomed to meaningless elections as far as they eye can see.
The Demoplicans are now on the corporate teat with a promise NOT to win elections. Their job now is to suck up all the political air in the room that a real opposition would need to breathe.
Posted by John Francis Lee on May 15, 2005 at 8:02 AM This is such a moving story it touches my heart and soul. It reminds me of our 20 year struggle with our lawsuits. The contamination’s adverse affects on our children and our loved ones who have died. We just won a victory a few weeks ago when the judge turned down an appeal by one of the insurance company we sued. The company was fighting the money awarded to the TCE plaintiffs. Even though we won we will probably have to wait another two years for the insurance company to appeal the interest on the money that was awarded to the plaintiffs several years ago. So far our lawyers have won every case that was filed on our behalf. It took several years but two of the three defendants settled except this last one which is this insurance company. Unfortunately the lawyers took about 50% of our award counting court costs, copies, travel, etc. At this point non of the plaintiffs hold this against the lawyers. I figure they have been holding in there for 20 years and have not sold us out like some lawyers in separate TCE torts in the area. It is sad that most of the plaintiffs and some of the heirs died before the lawsuits were settled. The money that some plaintiffs received didn’t even help pay for their funeral expenses or medical bills. I don’t see the TCE lawsuits as a monetary gain for the plaintiffs in any way. Right now my brother is slowly dying of cancer and no amount of money is going to buy his health back. Frank, me and our family’s have been struggling with health problems from the effect of TCE contamination for years. I see the TCE lawsuit victories as the only way, no matter how small it may be, to make those responsible for our illnesses pay for what they have done to the people and the environment. Nobody talks about the full impact the contamination has had on the environment but our ground water table is contaminated forever. Our groundwater is the lifeline of life in this desert forget the CAP. I would very much like to contact Nicolas Berube or Benoit Aquin. Do you know how I can reach them
Posted by Rose Augustine on May 15, 2005 at 10:14 PM John Frances Lee,
I agree with you, in part. It’s a matter of degree. Republicans are 100% corrupt, 100% of the time. Democrats are only 50% corrupt 75% of the time. So, my hope lies with them because, at least they say they support personal rights and freedom above corporate profits. And, unless you’re a democrat, a progressive really has no chance to win public office.
IMHO, Ralph Nader, the inventor of consumer rights and consumer advocacy, is (still) the brightest most capable person for the Presidency, Supreme Court or any other office he might occupy. But, as a practical matter, he has no chance to win as a 3rd party candidate. I wish I were wrong. Most of the Dems in D.C. are spineless, eunuchs who want to negotiate things like the filibuster of Senate confirmation of corporate pimps masquerading as federal court nominees. JMHO. YMMV. Well, not really. :^)
Posted by Lefty on May 17, 2005 at 10:56 AM The FDA should be de-regulated. They have outlived their purpose. I’m of the opinion that they give the “OK” on drugs that make us sick so that more money goes to the medical industry for more drugs to make us better. The problem is we never get better. When was the last time the medical industry helped find a cure for a disease? Was it Polio? The only thing the medical industry has managed to do since the Polio vaccine was help keep the American dick hard. We need a revolution. The folks in charge of America are evil bastards that only care about the bottom line and they don’t care who they have to murder to get there. IMPEACH BUSH, incarcerate him forever and don’t forget to dust his cell with Nemagon. It is people like our president that allow companies like Chiquita to enjoy record profits at the expense of the working class.
Posted by Kelly Green on May 17, 2005 at 12:31 PM Lefty,
‘ But, as a practical matter, he has no chance to win as a 3rd party candidate. I wish I were wrong. ‘
That’s what’s known as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
You’re right though, wishing won’t make it so.Wishing will ensure that nothing changes, fulfilling the self-fulfilling prophecy.
I’m not doing anymore than you are to change things. I do admit that things will not change until I do.
Posted by John Francis Lee on May 17, 2005 at 7:19 PM A self-fulfilling prophecy?: “I do admit that things will not change until I do.”
I’m glad that was resolved. And there still remains significant differences between Republicans and Democrats: most significantly, that progressive candidates are making gains through the democratic process (as Democrats) and with the help of formidable new political action groups such as, MoveOn, Progressive Majority, and others that are committed to restoring the true spirit of those principles on which America was founded. Building a farm team: http://www.progressivemajority.org/
Merely having faith in God or any single politician or political party won’t change anything. You must have faith in yourself.
Trying to decide if I ever heard a single bell or wind chime that sounded out of tune, I couldn’t think of a single instance. And yet, politicians use our money to listen to the wind to determine what (we) the people are thinking, and then use the notes from those studies to design new strategies for sustaining an illusion of action and representation. Sometimes it seems as though nothing Americaman does ever truly rings a bell: There is either great resistance to change (opposing nature) or directionless meandering—all the while touting a charted course.
What then elevates the progressive cause is the fundamental concept of [url="http://www.aa.washington.edu/faculty/eberhardt/lift.htm"
]"lifting bodies"[/url] both in terms of individual consciousness and modern design science. Such an architecture interacts in harmony (positively) with nature, deflecting wind (negativity) downward to create lift. Our most abundant resource is within ourselves. The answer is flying in the wind. http://www.bigpicturesmallworld.com/
Posted by Tim Christopher on May 18, 2005 at 1:00 PM An example of how the Republican mindset misses the mark in practical design concepts:
Bush appointed EPA director Stephen L. Johnson proposes using children of poor families to study the effects of pesticide use, enticing their parents with video camcorders. They code named the project: CHEERS (can you believe it?)
[url="http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050419/NEWS/50419030 01/1036"
]http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050419/NEWS/504190301/103 36[/url]WHAT’S A BANANA BILL?
It’s what you get when you combine an angry agribusiness with a Republican political majority on both State and Federal levels. Basically, a banana bill prohibits anyone from questioning agricultural practices that effect the health of consumers. What a concept!
[url="http://www.organicconsumers.org/gagutne.html"
]http://www.organicconsumers.org/gagutne.html[/url]WHY NICARAGUA MATTERS:
Because we are one people, living on one planet. The health of one part of your body certainly effects the condition of the entire body, does it not? And because nothing’s more important to our existence than the vessel we inhabit; our bodies, our earth. What has happened in Nicaragua is also symptomatic of what is happening everywhere, but by far, most of the blame for this cancer rests with American corporate design concepts using illusory (junk) scientific results and financial figures to justify a theoretical bottom line, all in opposition to nature and overall health.HOW FLORIDA FIGURES IN:
Florida agribusiness [url="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2005/05/01/a2e e_pesticides_edit_0501.html"
]quadruples[/url] the use of pesticides over that amount typically used by California growers, did you know? And yet last year Florida agricultural inspectors levied just $38,590 in fines while California inspectors collected 5.5 million dollars.“What you have in [url="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2005/04/2 24/m1a_pesticides_0424.html"
]Florida[/url] is an unholy alliance between representatives of the agricultural industry, developers and the politicians who they control. They have subverted and undermined the system of stewardship of the environment. We are increasingly sitting in a sea of pollution here in Florida.”[url="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2005/05/0 01/m1a_whistleblower_0501.html"
]Pesticide Watchdog Called Ag Industry Lapdog[/url]
A “corrupt” Florida state health department caves to industry, ex-official says:
“We’re talking about bureaucrats whose first interest is self-preservation, in not causing controversy, and not in public health,” Shafey says. “The system of protecting the public is broken.”FURTHER ACROSS THE BORDERLINE…
Jose Paniagua, meet [url="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2005/03/1 13/s1a_carlitos_0313.html"
]Carlitos[/url] Candelario and the migrant workers of Florida farms.One final note: assuming America survives another several years, Florida governor Jeb Bush will likely emerge as a candidate to replace his brothers throne, touting his “good job” as steward of Florida lands.
Posted by Tim Christopher on May 23, 2005 at 1:37 PM May 25, 2005
[url="http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050525/LOCAL/20525 50318/1078/news"
]84,000 acres of Fla. wetlands lost since 1990[/url]“We’re not protecting the environment,” said Vic Anderson, who recently retired after 30 years with the [Army Corps of Engineers]. “It’s a make-believe program.”
James Connaughton, President Bush’s top environmental advisor, acknowledges: “Sometimes some of these projects don’t work out the way we think they should.”
The [url="http://freeinternetpress.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&si id=3674"
]Free Internet Press[/url] writes: (compare these comments to my earlier statements)“While the government says destroyed wetlands were replaced, the claims are based on creative accounting and questionable science. The result: a program that creates the illusion of environmental protection while doing little to stem the destruction.”
[url="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/local_news/epaper/2005/05/25 5/m1a_scripps_0525.html"
]Meanwhile in Palm Beach County...[/url] PBC commissioners led by Mary McCarty (everyone should remember Mary as the Fla. Republican that illegally lobbied Federal judges to overturn the Fla. supreme court ruling that allowed a recount vote, resulting in a narrow Bush victory that propelled him into the presidency in 2000) voted today to go ahead with construction of the Scripps Institute on environmentally protected lands and in spite of dead certain legal battles looming ahead. Placing Scripps in PBC is a pet project of Governor Bush - who originally picked the site - and will no doubt include this project in his campaign for president, touting how much he accomplished for Florida business. Never mind the environment, or the $350 million in federal grant moneys given away to Scripps to relocate here, or the legal costs to taxpayers and all the eventual road congestion, possible environmental pollution, and on and on.Note: Mary McCarty’s husband was recently appointed head of the South Florida Water Management District, one of the largest and most powerful environmental management agencies in the country—and to anyone not blind in South Fla., an agency that is clearly the lap dog of developers and agribusiness interests. His job will be to render Jeb’s environmental record as successful by the next presidential election.
Have a great day!
Posted by Tim Christopher on May 25, 2005 at 11:52 AM Organic vs. chemicals
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/jul/03/chemical_use_root_yard_debate/?city_loc cal
Posted by merrill on Jul 8, 2005 at 4:48 PM Maybe those Lawrence lawns could use re-application of [url="http://www.lawrence.com/news/2003/nov/19/fallout_from/"
]The Day After[/url]?If at first they don’t succeed: Undeterred by previous protests, our gov’t, under the leadership of GW Bush, is back with human testing of pesticides; [url="http://www.newstarget.com/008984.html"
]http://www.newstarget.com/008984.html[/url]So now if your neighbors remain unconvinced that lawn chemicals are dangerous, you can suggest they enroll, as patriots, for an industry supported government study—“it’ll be fun for the whole family” according to industry advisors.
Posted by Tim Christopher on Jul 8, 2005 at 7:07 PM Don’t let your children play in the dirt anywhere near interstate highways. The soil is contaminated with lead and other carcinogenic chemicals linked to automobile exhaust.
Always avoid outdoor expose prior to rain falling, especially after long dry spells. Raindrops carry environmental pollution and even viruses while raindrops hitting the ground also stir up more contaminates and even deadly spores that live in the soil.
And now: Recent studies indicate that all children of the earth are born with residual cancer causing chemicals.
[url="http://www.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden2/"
]http://www.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden2/[/url]
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