home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- PEOPLE, Page 92Forbidding Fruit
-
-
- By Howard G. Chua-Eoan
-
-
- She played an activist in Silkwood, but offscreen, Meryl
- Streep is more likely to be found raising her children than
- pushing causes. Yet there she was before a press conference in
- Washington, launching Mothers and Others for Pesticide Limits.
- The deeply private actress, who chairs the campaign, is alarmed
- at a report by the Natural Resources Defense Council that
- preschool children are routinely exposed to dangerous levels of
- chemicals in fruits and vegetables. Said Streep: "I feel as a
- parent I have absolutely no choice but to come out and speak out
- and join others to alert the populace at large." Streep added,
- "You don't want to feel you have to be a biochemist to do the
- shopping." It's not a plum role.
-
-