Pesticides

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Pesticides
Effects

There are many important issues in the world regarding the environment and it's
affects on the average person. Though, the one that hits closest to home,
worldwide, is the trust that individuals have in the food that they consume. Yet
pesticides are still found daily in foods all around the world. Pesticides are
toxins that are used by produce growers universally to control pests that can
destroy crops. These toxins are being ingested by humans in the forms of fruits
and vegetables that have remaining toxins on them. How safe are these toxins to
humans and what is being done to safeguard the environment as well as the health
of individuals? Does the average person consume harmful amounts of poison at
every meal? If the levels are unsafe, why is this problem continuing to get a
blind eye from the people who are supposed to protect society? These questions
when asked only lead to more questions. Until things are done to change the
systems of pesticide usage universally, society can never be sure as to the long
term effects on our environment and what they are eating or giving to the future
of our world, the children. In some foreign countries pesticides are used more
frequently with legislative control than in the United States. In Mexico and
South America, for example, many of the pesticides that the United States and
Europe have banned, wind up being used on a majority of their produce crops. The
largest problem with this is that Europe and the United States import from South
America for produce all of the time. What good does it do to ban harmful
agricultural chemicals to be used on domestically grown crops if crops in other
countries are grown with these same harmful chemicals, and are then allowed to
be imported? Mexico and South America are the leading suppliers of produce for
the earth's population because their climate is very conducive to year around
crops. Unfortunately those countries are also known for their large amount of
insects of all varieties. These insects are steadily becoming more and more
immune to toxins that are sprayed on crops. More than five hundred insects, one
hundred and fifty plant diseases and two hundred and seventy weeds are now
resistant to pesticides. Results are that U.S. growers as well, are steadily
forced to apply more and stronger toxins. As the amount and the strength of the
toxin increases, the immunity of the targeted insects to these toxins also
increases. Total U.S. crop losses from insect dam...

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