Thursday, October 7, 2010

Poison to our mouths..

What are we always told before eating some kind of produce? To rinse it off right?! Therefore, it's cleaned off and there's less of a chance for us getting sick or digesting something gross that was on the food. Did you know.. that even if you have rinsed off, lets say some grapes, there still can be pesticides on your grapes??! Yes, pesticides! Can you say gross!!! Pesticides are used to kill pest so it's a chemical. When we eat fruit or any other produce we are eating those chemicals and they are being put into our bodies harming a lot of vital organs we need to live.
A lot of children across seas are more likely to die or be sick with pesticides due to the chemicals that are sprayed on their farms. (It still occurs in the U.S though.) A story once talked about elementary children playing out at recess and some workers had just sprayed some crops with pesticide killer. The children instantly were affected by the aroma. Some simply fainted while others were choking. It is horrible how humans are affected so greatly by pesticides. So it leaves us asking what do we do about it? So many farmers use pesticide killer especially for bigger farms, what can an alternative be?
Honestly, I do not what an alternative could be for the larger farm areas because the only alternative of pesticide killer I can think for smaller crops would be using something with less chemicals, such as a pesticide known as a wasp pesticide. This wasp doesn't sting humans they just eat up pests that want to destroy the crops. There are a lot of other different pest killers too that don't require all of those damaging chemicals.
The side effects and illnesses from these chemicals can be life threatening. Why don't people who use these pest killers think about how the chemicals are harming humans. Humans lungs, brain, liver, pretty much anything can be damaged for the rest of their lives by not only inhaling the fumes but my eating on food that had/has pesticides on it.
Then we go into talking about the foods out in the supermarkets that are sold with pesticides in/on them. Why does this happen?? That's not right to sale a consumer something like that, that can harm them. I simply think it's wrong. Isn't food suppose to go through some type of special food expection before being sold? If it has pesticides with it how is that passing a test? I love fruit and I'm always buying it in produce section at the store. I don't know what I would do if I was sold some fruit that had pesticides on it and I ate them. Obviously, I would be very sick but I'm pretty sure my mom would be very mad at the food expectors for letting that fruit go through the test and not help back due to the pesticides in it.

3 comments:

  1. It is kinda of scary knowing that you cant rinse off these pesticides and were digestings them. And we know there harming us because of what you sad about the children at recess fainting or even choking. And i do agree that they should come up with some alternative like the wasp you mentioned. I enjoyed reading this post finding out more about whats on my food. Just keep up the great job and ill be back

    courtney http://yumthatlooksdelicious.blogspot.com

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  2. dear junco,
    my major project 2 was about pesticides, and me and you found some of the same information. pesticides are in a lot of the foods we eat, and they can be really harmful to us if we consume them in large amounts.
    household pest repellents are also dangerous, like you said. i was surprised to see that big farm pesticides and household ones can hold the same dangers.
    good post, thanks for writing!
    kelsey

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  3. Dear junco,
    This is a very good topic and very relavant. It is a good blog post because of those reasons. I do agree with you. It seems like you have done your research, and keeps me informed.Keep up the good work and stay positive!

    the BLOG KING

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