Agricultura tóxica y salud en pueblos fumigados de Argentina

Resumen

Agricultural activity in Argentina is based on the systematic application of pesticides, the use of these chemicals in Argentina was raised to 360 million liters equivalent in kilos in 2015, while only 39 million were used in 1996. Exposure to glyphosate per person and per year is the highest in the world and ruralpopulations show a change in the ways of getting sick and dying, now being predominantly cancer the leading cause of death and the prevalence and incidence of oncological diseases has almost tripled the regular. This situation is clearly proved by the Socio-Environmental Health Study that took place in the town of Monte Maíz in October 2014 by a team of doctors and geographers from the National University of Cordoba and chemists from the National University of La Plata. The apparently successful agricultural model shows after 19 years of its implementation an impact on nature, of which human populations are also victims. Soy producers, agronomists, agribusiness, transnational corporations and governments benefit directly from the toxic agriculture and conceal their polluting character. On the other hand the protests and claims of fumigated populations affected are becoming sharper and started to gain the solidarity of public opinion, assuming more and more the character of a struggle for demands of the humanrights denied by economic interests that attempt to control the world’s food market.