Fed Up The High Costs of Cheap Food |
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| Author:
| Slongwhite, Dale Finley |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8130-4984-7 |
| Publication Date: | May 2014 |
| Publisher: | University Press of Florida
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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One farmworker tells of the soil that would "bite" him, but that was the chemicals burning his skin. Other labourers developed lupus, asthma, diabetes, kidney failure, or suffered myriad symptoms with no clear diagnosis. In Fed Up, Dale Slongwhite collects the nearly inconceivable and chilling oral histories of African American farmworkers whose lives, and those of their families, were forever altered by one of the most horrific pesticide exposure incidents in US history.
One farmworker tells of the soil that would "bite" him, but that was the chemicals burning his skin. Other labourers developed lupus, asthma, diabetes, kidney failure, or suffered myriad symptoms with no clear diagnosis. In Fed Up, Dale Slongwhite collects the nearly inconceivable and chilling oral histories of African American farmworkers whose lives, and those of their families, were forever altered by one of the most horrific pesticide exposure incidents in US history.