About this campaign
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Toxin Free USA is campaigning to stop Driscoll?s conventional berry farms from applying toxic pesticides near schools throughout the United States. Driscoll?s must stop endangering schoolchildren.
The largest berry producer in the world, Driscoll?s is a family-owned business that grows and distributes blackberries, blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries. The company is headquartered in Watsonville, California. In the U.S., it has production fields throughout California, and in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, New Jersey, Oregon, and Washington.
In California, and potentially in other states, the Driscoll?s family has not been a good neighbor. Just imagine how you would feel if a family that was a prominent member of your community was poisoning your children every time they went to school.
Cancer rates are up. In Watsonville, childhood cancer rates are 36% higher than the California average! The California Pesticide Information Portal (CalPIP) database documents Driscoll?s application of carcinogenic and other toxic synthetic pesticides on farms near schools, exposing children to levels as high as 2.3 times the established safety threshold ? that?s 230% of the lifetime cancer risk level set by California's cancer experts. It?s time for CHANGE.
YOU CAN HELP by learning more and signing our Change.org petition to demand Driscoll?s stop toxic pesticide applications at every operation within one mile of a school, starting with farms in Watsonville, and expanding to healthy farming practices for all operations near schools in the United States:
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