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| Friend, |
| Spinach, mango, basil, bell peppers. You choose these foods to stay healthy, but they could be harming your brain and body. |
| In the US, these common crops can all be grown using organophosphates — dangerous pesticides that are inherently neurotoxic to humans and even damage children's developing brains. |
| Despite the alarming impact on our health, the EPA allows the use of these toxic pesticides on our food. |
This giving week, longtime supporter George Martin is MATCHING all donations to Earthjustice. Will you make a special gift today to stop massive agricultural companies from poisoning our communities?
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| Earthjustice has proven we can use the power of the law alongside grassroots advocacy to make transformative change. In 2021 we succeeded in a decade-long effort to ban one of the most widely-used organophosphates — chlorpyriphos — from our food, protecting farmworkers and consumers alike. |
| But Friend, we know we can’t stop there. |
| We haven't yet discovered all the impacts of organophosphates, but here’s what we do know: |
- Decades of studies have linked in utero exposure to organophosphates to reduced IQ, attention disorders, and autism in kids.
- Organophosphates can cause acute poisoning to farmworkers at allowable levels of exposure, even when workers wear the most protective equipment.
- At high levels of exposure, organophosphate pesticides can be lethal.
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| If you’re able, I hope you’ll join me in fighting back today — for children, for farmworkers, and for a future without neurotoxins in our food and water. |
| Please make your $1:$1 matched gift today and help Earthjustice win more lawsuits on behalf of us all. |
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With sincere appreciation,
Alejandro Dávila Fragoso
Public Affairs and Communications
Healthy Communities
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| P.S. If you have already mailed your gift, thank you! We appreciate your patience as we update our records. |
