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MAPPING a MENACE Putting a face on pesticide exposure in the Central Valley By Kevin Hoover
PHOTO THIS PAGE AND FACING PAGE COURTESY OF STEVE STEINBERG CALIFORNIA’S CENTRAL VALLEY is America’s salad bar, an agricultural cornucopia where more than half the nation’s fruits and vegetables are grown. But behind the glistening produce lies a story rife with contrasts. It’s one of opportunity and isolation, abundance and deprivation, healthgiving nutrition and malady-inducing toxins. The valley’s farmworkers are mostly Latino, and their homes are clustered in and around the fields in which they work. The tight-knit, low-income communities are served by nearby small markets, banks and schools for the laborers’ children. That proximity to agricultural worksites places workers in the pesticide hot zone, day and night. Workers, their families and the industrial chemicals all share common space, but helping the layperson understand the connections between pesticides, populations and health hasn’t happened—until now. Facing page: Farmworkers harvest crops in Tulare County, Calif. A new study by HSU professors and students maps pesticide use and its proximity to sensitive facilities like schools and playgrounds in six California communities. HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY | humboldt.edu 15
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