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- Title
What a Mum Does.
- Authors
Kerr, Kate
- Abstract
The author relates her experience of what a mother can do to protect the family and environment. She could not forget how her mother screamed over the phone at the minister of the environment in New Brunswick. She witnessed her mother's battle against pesticide spraying program and fear that her children might be exposed to unacceptable risk. The author recalled her mother's worry regarding the concerns of higher incidents of Reye's Syndrome, a deadly condition in communities where spraying has taken place. Her mother drove around to meet with environment and health officials and the public to end the spraying program until it was banned in 1998.
- Subjects
NEW Brunswick; MOTHERS; APPLICATION of pesticides; FAMILIES; SPRAYING; REYE'S syndrome; ENVIRONMENTAL protection; PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of pesticides; PUBLIC health officers
- Publication
Alternatives Journal (AJ) - Canada's Environmental Voice, 2006, Vol 32, Issue 3, p7
- ISSN
1205-7398
- Publication type
Article