by Michelle Wallar, Greengrants Intern Americans love bananas: banana splits, banana bread, banana smoothies, and just plain bananas. We import about 27 pounds annually for every American, according to Michael Jessen of AlterNet. And yet we often know little about the consequences of the pesticides used to grow bananas. The people who grow our bananas […]
On September 20, 2001, Enakunthala Ravi died at MGM Hospital in Warangal District of Andhra Pradesh, India. He did not die from cancer, old age, or any prolonged sickness. Ravi was a migrant cotton farm worker in the village of Akkampeta, and he died a day after spraying the toxic pesticide methyl parathion, also known as Metacid, for just one hour.
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