Kathy Kellison wrote:

> Yes, my concern is for the field workers and their families the
> 'forgotten farmers'.

The field workers and their families tend to have serious health 
problems unrelated to pesticide exposure:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/13/national/13LABO.html?pagewanted=1

Excerpts:

Preliminary findings by the California Policy Research Center in Berkeley 
indicate that illegal immigrant farm workers, newly arrived from Mexico, 
have far lower cholesterol, lower blood pressure and less obesity than 
do farm workers who have lived here legally for a while.

A poor diet is a key to their high rates of diabetes, high blood pressure 
and anemia, researchers say, and it gets worse as the migrants combine 
American fast food with the staples of tacos and refried beans. Other 
factors are the lack of money and insurance.

Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.

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