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Toxic fallout as activists challenge strawberry industry's pesticide use [1]

Faced with the potential use of a dangerous pesticide methyl iodide to spray crops in their backyards, a group of Californian teenagers decided to stand up to the might of industrial agribusiness.

Publication Date: 
13/10/2011
Environment News Network [2]
Tags:
Pesticide Use [3], Agriculture [4], Food Crops [5], California [6], Mexico [7], United States Of America (US) [8]

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[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/pesticide-use
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/agriculture
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-crops
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/california
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mexico
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/united-states-america-us