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Costa Rica uses more pesticides per capita than any other country on the planet. More than all of the other Central American countries combined.
[quote=”Scott”]This is a topic that has cropped up on a few occasions…
I did research this a few years ago and discovered that Costa Rica does use an large amount of pesticides but, what was rarely specified in the the articles was “who” was using all those pesticides?
The biggest culprits by far are the American multinationals who grow fruit here…
The articles states that:
The company will compensate more than 5,000 banana plantation workers affected by the use of pesticides.
The agreement, which will benefit 3,153 Nicaraguans, 700 Costa Ricans and 1000 Hondurans, was reached after several months of negotiations.
One of the lawyers involved in the process told AFP that the “compensation, which will take effect over the next two or three months, will allow these workers to change their lives.”
Between 1973 and 1980, Dole used the agrochemicals Fumazone and Nemagon in banana plantations in Central America, chemicals which have been linked to serious health problems such as infertility, cancer and birth defects…
You can see the full SPANISH article at:
