Pesticide Found Inside Ferry; Search Stopped
As per radio reports on DZRH just now, the ill-fated M/V Princess of theStars was carrying a container-full of Endosulfan (manufacturer: BayerCropScience) - a neurotoxic organochlorine insecticide, one of the "DirtyDozen" banned for some years now in many countries, including ours. If youwill recall, Endosulfan was banned in the Philippines in 1994.If the pesticide cargo is owned by Del Monte, then it will not be used in Cebu, but most likely in Bukidnon/Northern Mindanao where their thousands of hectares of pineapple plantations are located. The M/V Princess of the Stars disaster has now exposed that a "reputable corporation" like Del Monte is using tons of a banned pesticides (if radio report were true that it is indeed Endosulfan - and we can expect massive cover ups) on their pineapples meant for export.
Radio interview with divers say that they have difficulty breathing underwater from the first time they started the search-and-rescue operations early this week, which made it very hard to recover bodies inside the upside-down ship.
Tragic to think about the long-term effects of such a highly toxic and endocrine-disrupting pesticide on corals, water and the entire marine ecosystem off Sibuyan Island and adjacent water bodies...
(;-)Neth
Hmmmnnn....
Tone-toneladang "endocrine-disrupting pesticides"... ginagamit sa mga pinya ng Del Monte - popular pa man din ang mga de lata nito... tapos kasama pa sa lumubog na barko, so, napahalo sa tubig... mapapunta sa isda at iba pang lamang-dagat... tapos makakain o makakabot na sa mga tao... isa lang ang ibig sabihin nito...
...DADAMI NA NAMAN ANG MGA BADING SA PILIPINAS!!!!
Hehehe, go sisters!!!
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