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if this isn't notable I don't know what is

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I oppose deletion and am working on the article. I have not yet removed the prod template because I am using the convenience links. Elinruby (talk) 01:50, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

so this copy-vio

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Didn't write it that text and don't know about it, but this topic is notable enough for an article and I am pulling it out of prod. (See list of sources I have added) I noticed it on a list of over-templated articles.

Can we just delete the copy-vio text in question? I have downloaded the source document, but I don't think I even need it for AfD purposes. I like my sources better, although I may add something from it eventually. Elinruby (talk) 05:07, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I assume this is from a press released archived somewhere

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Completely uncited of course. Left here as breadcrumbs to the details of the voluntary compliance agreement once you strip all the weasel out: in which the EPA recommended stricter air monitoring of potentially harmful gasses, a process to acquire information from registered pesticide companies about where pesticide concentration is the greatest, a process to determine monitoring efforts are effective against long-term pesticide exposure, use of films that act as a barrier towards methyl bromide, setting limits on methyl bromide levels per town, and organizing three events per year as a means of outreach with the Latino community.

outline

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Angelita C.
  • Complaint to EPA because of Supreme Court ruling
  • Pesticides used in fields impact entire community
    • However schoolchildren are required to attend school, and children are medically more vulnerable
  • Appeal (Garcia v. McCarthy) dismissed
Angelita C. setting is an agricultural community
  • Employers often large corporations not family farms
  • Workers usually indigenous Oaxacans, overwhelmingly undocumented and illiterate in both English and Spanish
    • History of seasonal migration to the area from Mexico
    • Mexican maize farmers displaced by NAFTA?
    • Employment is at will
    • Sanitation is not provided for hand-washing or anything else (see outbreaks of hepatitis)
    • Complaints or attempts to unionize lead to unemployment
    • Brutal production quotas at harvest
    • Minimum wage and wage theft issues endemic
    • Life expectancy for field workers is 49
    • Insurance not usually available, so access to medical care is minimal
Pesticides
EPA
  • dueling legislative mandates
  • pervasive influence of industry
  • multiple administrators have had a history of ignoring the science
  • failure to meet deadline for complaints
  • much concern about deadlines for approvals; managers evaluated on number of approvals
Agriculture in California
  • Part of the origin story
  • History of dispossessing minorities
  • land owned by whites, work done by non-whites
  • highly segmented climate zones
  • UC Davis
  • Strawberry Commission