Please stop fraudulent fights for human advocates

Please stop fraudulent fights for human advocates

I empathize with Filipinos who trying to make both ends meet and are aspiring for a better life but whose dreams are hampered by fraudulent human rights advocates.
One of these Filipinos are the residents of sitio Camocaan in Davao del Sur, who are able to meet their needs due, for one, to the help of a banana industry which feeds and employs thousands of people and brings in export revenues of about $700 million annually. This banana industry, however, are attacked by fraudulent advocates who are using strategies to put a ban to the aerial spraying of pesticides.

Residents of Sitio Camocaan asked these fraud advocates to stop degrading their dignity by harping on his still-to- be- reviewed study of their health and environment.

Camocaan’s tribal chieftain, Leonardo Tigao, was vocal in expressing disappointment on studies of Doctors who forgot their obligation as a public servant by doing nothing the past three years to act on their findings that the village’s children are suffering from malnutrition.

The residents were treated as if they and their children are just pests to be studied.

Con advocates say aerial spraying aims to rid banana crops of the Sigatoka fungus but causes proven health and environmental problems since harmful chemicals are indiscriminately applied with no distinction between pests and humans.”

But the Department of Health in Region XI, the Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority (FPA) and a Special Investigating Team created by Mayor Rodrigo Duterte have conducted studies to deny claim of risk to health and environment from aerial spraying.

Development Society clamors to stop what has been called “toxic rain” and committed to launch a signature drive and spread information about the plight of communities affected by aerial spraying through various communities and social networking tools.

In Davao City, residents know what is toxic rain: and they know the lies and black propaganda levelled by development societies against the banana industry – and they will not be fooled.

Development societies pledge to support their quest for human rights, including the right not to be poisoned with hazardous substances, by telling others about their stories and hopes. They do not know what they are talking about. They do not understand that they are putting the residents of sitio camocaan in a desperate plight due to the wrong stand and cause they are fighting for. Please, do more studies, get to know the genuine truth, fight for what is really for the good of the people and stop your fraudulent battle, which are only for your benefit and at the expense of the many.