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Keywords
Agriculture
Day
Farmers
Greenhouses
Huts
KWCI (GPI)
Manual workers
Men
One person
Outdoors
Pesticides
Plastics
Poverty
SAGE (campaign title)
Toxics (campaign title)
Victims
Pesticide Use in Spain
Moroccan worker of a vegetables farm along the Spanish coast near Almeria. In the greenhouses grow tomatoes, peppers and strawberries, which are treated with large amount of pesticides. The workers, many of them illegal immigrants, work for little money under dangerous conditions. They suffer from cough and persistent headaches. Here he stands in front of a hut made out of plastic and wood.
In original language:
Pestizide im Suedosten Spaniens
Intensive Landwirtschaft im Suedosten Spaniens. Plastikfolien-Gewaechshaeuser fuer den Gemueseanbau entlang der spanischen Kueste bei Almeria, genannt "Plastic-city" El Ejido. Unter den Folien wachsen vor allem Tomaten, Paprika, Erdbeeren unter starker Pestizidbehandlung und extremer Bewaesserung. Marokkanische Landarbeiter, oftmals illegal eingewandert, arbeiten zu Dumpingloehnen und unter schlimmen gesundheitlichen Bedingungen. Sie arbeiten ohne Schutzkleidung und leiden unter starken Hustenanfaellen und Dauerkopfschmerzen. Arbeiter vor Huette aus Plastikfolie.
Unique identifier:
GP0326I
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
21/10/2005
Locations:
Europe
,
Spain
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Ángel Garcia
Size:
3504px × 2336px 4MB
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
Containers
Shoot:
Pesticide Use in Spain
Pesticides being used for fruit and vegetable market gardening along the coast between Alicante and Almeria, Spain. An analysis made by Greenpeace Germany's consumer organisation, the Shopping Net (Einkaufsnetz, EKN) proves that legal limits for pesticides have been exceeded in one in five samples of fruit and vegetables. Greenpeace bought 658 various fruit and vegetable samples including pears, grapes, peaches, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots and lettuce from the leading supermarkets in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and analysed them for 300 different pesticides. In 100 cases the legal limit for pesticide residue was exceeded. In 16 cases, extremely high levels of residue were found and in 27 instances illegal pesticide residues were discovered. The supermarket chains LIDL and REAL (Metro) proved to be the worst offenders.
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