Let us highlight some of the negative impacts in "The Attack of the Killer Tomato".

• Two big powerful companies get together to overthrow a publically owned cooperative farm. The result is that a few people become a lot richer and a lot of people become a lot poorer.
• One big company will profit from the sale of pesticides. Mexican people will suffer from their use on their land, and Americans in Alabama will suffer from the world's largest hazardous landfill where their waste is dumped.
• Methyl bromide fumigates the land, harming the farmers in direct contact with it. As our air has no boundaries, it also spreads into our atmosphere to work on depleting our ozone layer.
• What is methyl bromide? (Click tomato to find out).
• Not only are Mexican farmers exposed to harmful conditions without protection, but they also do not have access to health care. With a mere income of $2.50 per day, they do not have the option to travel away to a better life. They are stuck in a situation of poverty and danger, for their lives and their children's.
• Much packaging is used - and if not reused or recycled, will end up in a landfill. American workers in Texas are exposed to the risl of cancer by manufacturing the plastic packaging the tomatoes are put into.
• Canada's forests and fish are affected. The cardboard boxes are made from B.C. trees which are milled near the Great Lakes which are hence polluted.
• Imagine all of the fossil fuels that are burned during the trucking of materials from one place to another! And finally, the tomatoes from Mexico to our grocery stores.
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