In solidarity
"your well-documented account of the circumstances which led to your contracting Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma was moving. It is particularly sad that you should be the one affected as you have been in the forefront of the environment movement and have opened our eyes with reference to the damage we are causing to our surroundings and thereby to the health, livelihoods and food security of the generations yet to be born.
"I feel equally sad that despite the availability of overwhelming scientific evidence on the health hazards associated with pesticides, our government still encourages their use, ostensibly for the purpose of malaria control. Indonesia made integrated pest management mandatory more than 10 years ago and this has had very beneficial effects on that country's health and crop security. Although scientists of the Malaria Research Institute
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