The poisons are designed to kill, and pose a very real threat to consumers and farm workers alike. What is Chavez’s purpose in this passage? to inform people about how farm workers and consumers work together to fight the dangers of pesticides to convince people that pesticides are used mainly in the fields where table grapes are grown to entertain people with stories about the ways in which pesticides travel from the fields into homes to persuade people that everyone is affected by the harmful chemicals found in pesticides