Pesticides Effects Essay Research Paper There are

Pesticides Effects Essay, Research Paper

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 damage has nearly doubled since

1945. Insecticide use during this same time has increased tenfold. This war will

go on being waged until the game plan is changed. The produce export trade in

some cities and countries constitutes the majority of their economy and they

will protect the resulting income at all costs. These places have very little

legislation to control chemical usage, and follow up on almost none of its

effects. Officials do not care how it affects consumers, being adults or

children. Even their own agricultural worker’s health is of no concern. These

officials only care about producing crops and exporting them with as little

overhead as possible. The bottom line is, always has been, and always will be

money. In Villa Juarez, Mexico, many children who work in the produce fields are

coming down with mysterious illnesses and some people in this region put the

blame directly on those children’s contact with the chemical acephate and other

pesticides that are used in that area. The use of acephate is illegal in the

United States, but is perfectly legal in Mexico. Doctors in Juarez are treating

unusually high amounts of cancer and also fifty to eighty cases of chemical

poisoning per week in their agricultural workers. This continues to happen

because the government and the growers do not take these illnesses seriously;

the workers are expendable. Growers in Culcan Valley, Mexico use chemicals to

increase production of produce sold in the U.S. every winter. Unfortunately,

studies that were preformed by the Government Accounting office in Mexico showed

that at least six pesticides that are illegal in the U.S. were still on the

produce when it was exported. Moving on to South America, in Chile there are no

clear guidelines governing the use of agricultural chemicals on produce crops.

In the city of Rancaga, a large fruit growing region, a study was done to check

the risks that rural workers face, and what they found was astounding. Dr. Maria

Mella found that there is an alarming amount of sterility and birth defects due

to exposure to chemical pesticides in agricultural workers. Congenial

deformities were five times higher, and multiple deformities were a shocking

four times higher than normal in this part of South America. These studies were

conducted by the Women’s Institute and were based on ten thousand infa

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