I used to pick strawberries when I was a student, and I know what backbreaking work it is, and how the growers always try to cheat the workers any way they can. So, I hope you'll sign this petition to ban a dangerous chemical from the strawberry fields.
Hajja Romi/"Blue" ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: United Farm Workers (UFW) <[email protected]> To: Romi Elnagar <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2012 12:08 PM Subject: Take Action to keep CA's strawberry fields safe! Take Action to keep CA's strawberry fields safe! Click here to sign the petition today! Last spring the UFW and their partners at PANNA and other environmental groups won a tremendous victory in keeping the cancer-causing fumigant methyl iodide out of California’s strawberry fields. That dangerous chemical has now been pulled from the entire U.S. market and we are all a little safer. However, this might not continue.Instead of investing fully in moving towards safe strawberry fields, some decision makers have caved to industry pressure by petitioning to create more loopholes to allow the use of methyl iodide’s banned predecessor, methyl bromide. Methyl bromide has been banned globally for good reason. It is an ozone-depleting chemical and developmental toxicant. Farmers all over the world have figured out how to farm without either methyl bromide or methyl iodide. Surely, with a little persistence and support, California farmers can too. These exemptions are unnecessary and undermine the progress our state has just begun to make in transitioning off of fumigant pesticides. Hold officials accountable to the promise of safe strawberry fields in California. Join us in urging California EPA head Matt Rodriguez to affirm his commitment to end fumigant pesticide use by 2020 in California, and to create a plan that supports farmers' efforts to do so. Please sign out petition today. http://action.ufw.org/castrawberries After you take action please share this campaign with your friends and family. You can send them an e-mail, post this campaign on your Facebookand/or Twitter page by clicking here or going to http://action.ufw.org/page/m/3bed9cbb/145687a8/4728c244/2b47a0ce/3308471371/VEsHBw/ OUR E-MAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED. Check out our website at: www.ufw.org and keep up with the latest news. Check out the UFW's Social Networking pages. Click to visit our Facebook Fan Page, Facebook Cause, YouTube, Flickr, MySpace,and Care2 pages. Please link to us and become our "Friend" and follow us on Twitter too! If you received this message from a friend, you can sign up for the UFW List Serve. United Farm Workers, P.O. Box 62, Keene, CA 93531, http://www.ufw.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
