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Driscoll’s should lead on pesticide reform – not debate childhood cancer statistics
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During the last month, videos on social media have multiplied linking a company, Driscoll's, to increases in childhood cancer related to toxic strawberries.
Driscoll’s should lead on pesticide reform – not debate childhood cancer statistics
A widely cited claim that Santa Cruz County’s childhood cancer rate is 38% above the state average is muddling the debate about pesticide reform, writes Watsonville activist and retired nurse Kathleen Kilpatrick. The number doesn’t prove pesticides cause cancer and shouldn’t be used that way, she writes. But correcting that statistic doesn’t change the broader body of evidence linking pesticide exposure to childhood cancer and other serious heal…
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