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The Environmental And Social Injustice Of Farmworker Pesticide Exposure, Joan D. Flocks
The Environmental And Social Injustice Of Farmworker Pesticide Exposure, Joan D. Flocks
UF Law Faculty Publications
Farmworkers in the United States are recognized as an environmental justice community. The farmworker population is low-income and primarily Hispanic, and is at a disproportionate risk from exposure to an environmental contaminant pesticides. Farmworkers face distributional, procedural, corrective, and social challenges with this exposure, as is common with other environmental justice communities. Social challenges include socioeconomic and political inequities that are grounded in the historical domination of the agricultural industry over its labor force. The production and use of pesticides is a function of the economic priorities of industry. Employers profit from pesticide use and are able to maximize their …