My meal last night was white rice, an egg, romaine lettuce, cabbage, green onions, and carrots all mixed together in a rice bowl.
I was in shock with how many pesticides were left on every single one of these had pesticides left on them! The eggs I have were organic but I think everything else I had was not organic so this worries me. While cabbage had 11 pesticide residues, lettuce at 52 pesticide residues! Many of which were harmful to bees, but a good portion of them were harmful carcinogens, neurotoxins, or hormone disrupters. It is also alarming that lettuce had the most number of pesticide residues on them. Green onions have 31 pesticide residues and carrots have 26! Many of these pesticide residues are hormone disrupters, have development/reproductive toxins, or are neurotoxins. The thing that may have shocked me the most is rice has the most harmful toxins for humans. Rice only have 15 pesticide residues which is far less than other vegetables. Most of the pesticide residues actually have hormone disrupters, some level of carcinogens, developmental/reproductive toxins, and toxins for bees.
There should be far more legislation about pesticides in the United States. While there is lots of regulations that have arose from the bee vanishing situation, there is still a long way to go. Many local farms are still using pesticides and law makers should create a stronger argument against pesticides.
After looking at the website, it is very shocking how much pesticides there is in our food. I ate lettuce for dinner too and I was very alarmed at the numbers that I saw because lettuce is very commonly eaten. I agree with youth more legislation is need and there should be more public protest against the use of pesticide to bring attention to the issue.
ReplyDeleteIt is shocking how many harmful pesticides are on all of the produce we eat if we do not eat organic. Growing up, my mom always told me that eating organic was not necessary because we could always wash all of the produce we eat. But I do not think that is the case anymore because pesticides are stronger than ever and they are being injected into the seeds of produce so it's not like we can "wash them off." There definitely needs to be legislation in the US about pesticides.
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