There's a very good reason no one know anything about "what's on their food." It's because no one is talking about it. Go ahead and phone up some of the bigger apple or tomato or grape or strawberry growers in the country and ask to talk to someone about pesticides on the food - you won't get a straight answer from them. http://www.whatsonmyfood.com/food.jsp?food=AP Human Health Effects: 6 Known or Probable Carcinogens 16 Suspected Hormone Disruptors 5 Neurotoxins 6 Developmental or Reproductive Toxins So - how do you feel about pesticides on your food? Do you even have a clue about it? - - - Updated - - - from the same website. Notice organic does not have the same amount of pesticides. How do you feel about that?
I've never visited a strawberry farm in California but I've heard they spray fifteen times or more per year. That's sick. People eat that? But I'd like to know the truth at least. Does anyone here know what really happens on strawberry farms? How many times to they spray pesticides? * Some crops in BC (apples, pears etc) are only sprayed once or twice, but it's hard to get an exact answer, because no one is talking. Go ahead and phone the government agriculture guys in your area, and see if you can get a straight answer from them. Ask them how many times is each crop sprayed each year? Apples. Peaches. Lettuce. Corn. It's good to know.
It just depends on the operation. California's organic strawberries (and other organic crops as well) very often have been treated with a lot of chemicals before they go into the organic-managed fields. It is one of the *****s in the "I only eat organic" armor--most of the stuff they think is organic isn't if they are buying it from a grocery store. The nurseries where the pants are started are loaded down with chemicals.
I only buy my strawberries from the road-side stands where they picked them from the plant that day. Once you have had them, you will never buy strawberries in the grocery store again.
I am much much much more concerned as to what is in my food rather than on my food because I know what I put on it but I do not always know what a producer or processor has put in my food. Example I love pepper - black and white, paprika, hot sauce, and sometimes salt and other herbs and spices.
The link in the OP refers to percentages found but does not mention (that I can find) what percentage of latent pesticides are actually harmful to humans. Also, I would like to know if these fruits/vegetables were cleaned before testing. I do know that most pesticides degrade. The pesticides that organic growers use are less effective (they are so-called 'natural') and therefore have to be used more often.
Why is there so much false information out there regarding pesticides? What is so complicated about it? Yes - some chemical pesticides do break down, a certain amount. But they also don't break down - some of them. They tend to stick around a long time in the environment, and some pesticides tend to store themselves in the fatty part of the human brain. There are hundreds of different pesticides out there, and certain crops are worse. Much worse. Sickeningly worse. It's those crops I would like to learn more about. Yes - organic 'sprays' can even be harmful to the person applying it. But it's two different things. The chemical pesticides cause cancer - we know that. And the organic produce is usually grown with more hand labor - and no chemical pesticides are used. That natural pesticides are not a problem. So why is the "Whats on my food" website such a great mystery to people? There are "pesticides' on my food. And yours. And his. And hers. We're eating pesticides. The pesticides are not good for us. How much more simple can that be? ..
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com...101-organic-farming-conventional-agriculture/ It is not as easy as one would think. In the end unless you are the one growing the crop you will not know what kind of farmer grew your crop. You will not know if they apply pesticides liberally or sparingly.
Derived from World War II nerve gas agents, organophosphate pesticides are the most widely used insecticides in the world. While high-level exposure to the chemicals has long been known to be dangerous, low-levels of exposure of the kind experienced by farmers spraying the chemical or treating animals, was not initially thought to be a hazardous, as governments across the world have promoted a new chemical-dependent era of farming. However, with growing reports of health problems from the farmers around the UK since the mid-1980s, including more than 600 reports of ill health to an official surveillance scheme, the government has been under pressure to acknowledge that low-level exposure may have caused widespread illness. Pesticides and brain damage Now researchers from University College London and the Open University have shown that the type of long-term, low-level exposure many farmers using the chemicals will have experienced produces long-term brain damage. https://www.chinadialogue.net/artic...o-pesticides-linked-to-long-term-brain-damage
The Agriculture Act 1947 was necessary both to manage the balance of payments and keep people from starving. Decisions have consequences. For some, 2 deaths per 100,000 over a lifetime from chemicals is better than 20 deaths per 100,000 over a decade from starvation or malnutrition. There is no perfect solution when anybody depends on another for something as basic as food. Provide for yourself or do the best you can navigating treacherous waters.
2 deaths per 100,000 over a lifetime from chemicals ^ that's the problem. Non one can ever prove what happens "long term" because it's impossible to study. But we see things happening all around us. ADHD. Alzheimers epidemic. Obesity. Diabetes. It's happening as we speak.
Oatmeal found to have pesticide residue... FDA says pesticide residue found in 10 oatmeal items Fri, May 27, 2016 - A random inspection by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) earlier this month found 10 of 36 oatmeal products tested contained pesticide residues exceeding legal levels, including Quaker Oats products, the agency said yesterday.
I perfectly know the food is full of bad stuff for health and that pesticides and alike are in it. I doubt the food market and their friends will speak about that much.
Most of the companies in the food processing industry rely on their suppliers. If they tested every ingredient in every lot that comes into the plant for every possible contaminate, it would take a month of sundays to make a frozen dinner. So they play the odds and rely on suppliers and their practices if they want to make a quality product. I they don't care about the quality of their product, they will just buy from whomever is the cheapest.
And they wonder why the bees are dyin' off... Not So Sweet: 75 Percent of Honey Samples Had Key Pesticide October 05, 2017 > When researchers collected honey samples from around the world, they found that three-quarters of them had a common type of pesticide suspected of playing a role in the decline of bees. Even honey from the island paradise of Tahiti had the chemical.