Agricultural "killing fields": the poisoning of Costa Rican banana workers.
The poisoning of Costa Rican banana workers by multinational corporations' excessive use of pesticides is not a local issue; it is embedded in a dominant ideology expressed by the phenomenon of globalization. This ideology seeps into every aspect of our social institutions--economic, political, and legal. The practice of this ideological perspective is evident in the industrialization of global agriculture and the shift from "developmentalism"--liberal welfarism, industrialization, and urbanization--to a dominant, undemocratic, global financial elite with "economism" and a neoliberal political agenda overriding the nation-state polis. A specific effect is to transform the agricultural workers of developing countries, such as Costa Rican banana workers, into politically superfluous flesh-and-blood human beings.
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College of Commerce, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.
D000383:Agriculture / Q000191:economics*; D000969:Antinematodal Agents / Q000506:poisoning; D003132:Commerce / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards; D003364:Costa Rica / Q000453:epidemiology; D019649:Food Industry / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards; D005638:Fruit / Q000469:parasitology; D015386:Hazardous Substances / Q000506:poisoning*; D006801:Humans; D007246:Infertility / Q000209:etiology; D007390:International Agencies; D007449:Investments; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D010575:Pesticides / Q000506:poisoning*; D011056:Political Systems; D011407:Propane / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000506:poisoning; D011640:Public Policy; D012941:Social Responsibility
D000969:Antinematodal Agents; D015386:Hazardous Substances; D010575:Pesticides; C007318:1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane; D011407:Propane