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Spraying Fields
Here's an interesting story over on bbc news website:
http://tinyurl.com/nsw1 ----- start excerpt ---- Military aid The news that drug cultivation in Colombia has fallen by 32% comes amid concern over its controversial crop-spraying programme. The scheme is financed by the US and is Washington's principle condition for continuing military aid. But peasants and human rights groups oppose the spraying of toxic chemicals over drug fields, many of which are in the vulnerable Amazonian rainforest. The glyphosate chemicals, which are sprayed from planes kill all plant life, not just drug crops, and leave peasants destitute. Critics allege the spraying simply feeds displacement and leads to more virgin rainforest being cut down, and that manual eradication is the only way forward. ----- end excerpt ---- Goodness, well, at least it isn't Agent Orange...and I sure hope we don't find out 20 years from now that it is as bad as Agent Orange. John |
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