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hunger strike protest against Driscoll's Omar Dieguez

Omar Dieguez completes 30-Day Hunger Strike Against Driscoll’s

As we profiled in our last letter, Omar Dieguez was on a hunger strike to get Driscoll’s and California Giant Berry Farms, which both sell products under conventional and organic labels, to stop spraying toxic pesticides on fields next to schools in Watsonville and convert these farms to organic. So far, the two companies have taken no such action. During his hunger strike, Omar was banned from entering schools by the Pajaro Valley Unified School District, who deemed his talks about pesticide spraying as too “controversial.”

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