==Death==Fabian Tomasi died on Friday in Basavilbaso, Argentina, at the age of 52, according to the National Police. His work for years under the risk of agrochemicals led him to develop polyneuropathy, a disease that changed his muscles and body shape. The disease was diagnosed in 2012, with an early "short life expectancy". Since then, Tomasi has been fighting agrochemicals. The appearance in the photo-report The Human Cost of photographer Pablo Piovano in 2014 to show the dark side of the business of Argentine agrotoxics made Tomasi known worldwide.
Molina Y Compañía, S.L.R. Tomasi got a job in the company and for years he worked to manipulate the chemical charges that the aircraft fumigated. He was in contact with glyphosate, tordon, propanil, endosulfan, cypermethrin, fungicides and other chemicals. Due to its high toxicity, most countries in the world are prohibited, but in Argentina the situation is different. Due mainly to the expansion of GM soy cultivation, there are many multinationals in Argentina that use agrotoxics and transgenic seeds. Outbreaks of GM soybeans have the ability to withstand fumigations, so the fields destined for soy cultivation are sprinkled with agrotoxics that ruin the pests.
“I am the shadow of Soy’s success,” Tomasi said in an interview. In addition to Monsanto, Tomasi has developed other large companies that make money with agrotoxics. In the letter he wrote to La Podere in March, he clearly said: “There is no disease without venom and there is no poison without a criminal coexistence between multinational companies, the health industry, governments and justice.” He denounced that he received many threats “for seeing what makes us eat, breathe and drink every day.”
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