M8.3 Blog Pesticides
For dinner last night, I had raw cucumbers, raw carrots, and veggie chili soup. I first looked up the raw cucumbers because I had consumed this the most last night. Looking at the webpage, http://www.whatsonmyfood.org, I fond that 86 possible pesticides are potentially used for growing cucumbers. I was disappointed to see that 24 of these are toxins to the honeybees, which are facing an ongoing issue of colony collapse all over the US. Endocrine disruptors were the most common pesticide found, with a total of 32.
The other ingredients I looked up were: carrots (26 pesticides found), kidney beans (1), black beans (1). Prior to this little exercise, I had thought cucumbers and carrots were the best option because they are vegetables and normally deemed as "healthy". I am disappointed to find that there are so many possibly associated pesticides to cucumbers because there are few alternatives to eating nutritious foods. This just further emphasizes the need for my family and I to go organically as possible.
The other ingredients I looked up were: carrots (26 pesticides found), kidney beans (1), black beans (1). Prior to this little exercise, I had thought cucumbers and carrots were the best option because they are vegetables and normally deemed as "healthy". I am disappointed to find that there are so many possibly associated pesticides to cucumbers because there are few alternatives to eating nutritious foods. This just further emphasizes the need for my family and I to go organically as possible.
This assignment also disappointed me. Really gets you thinking about what kind of chemicals you are putting in your body without even knowing it.
ReplyDeleteThat's really disheartening. I didn't think about the impact of my foods on honeybees but yet another reason to try to buy organic and vote for policy changes that protect the environment and its species.
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