chemical residues in our food

URBANMALI

The food we eat contains highly poisonous chemicals in the form of insecticides, fungicides, weedicides, nematocides, growth hormones and raticides. All this is a part of conventional agriculture.

POISON?

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These poisonous residues are entering our bodies not only through the grains, fruits and vegetables but also through the milk, meat, eggs and the water we drink.

IT’S EVERYWHERE

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The concentration of chemical residues in the fruits and vegetables depends on the dose and formulation. It also depends on the structure, size and surface tex-ture of leaves, flowers, fruits and canopy.

HEAVY DOSE

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When these insecticides are sprayed on a standing crops they are immediately absorbed by the fruits and leaves of the crops. Fruits that have a smooth and shin-ing surface such as tomatoes, brinjals and apples, contain lesser amount of residues since most of the chemical slips away.

SAVED BY THE SHINE

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Fruits and vegetables that have rough or textured sur-faces like lady’s finger, cabbage, cauliflower and gua-vas, have a higher proportion of residues. Under-ground vegetables such as onion, potato, sweet po-tato, beetroot and ground nut have the least amount of residues deposited on them.

ROUGHING IT

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The immune system becomes weaker as these resi-dues accumulate in the human body. The body’s power to resistance to disease decreases. Cancer, diabetes, hypertension, sensory disorders, liver and kidney ail-ments, hereditary defects become rampant.

POPPING PILLS

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Each passing year pests seem to have a higher resis-tance to the chemicals meant to destroy them. In re-sponse to this, the dose of chemical sprayed is increas-ing. As a result, the proportion of residues is also in-creasing.

ADAPTATION

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A scale of measure known as the Maximum Residue Limit (MRL) is used to estimate the number of milli-grams of residue per kilogram of the food produce. But then, toxins are toxins and poisons are poisons if pre-sent in small or large amounts. How do we solve this problem?

CRISIS?

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A system of farming which doest not use fertilizers, pes-ticides, insecticides, weedicides, raticides or nemati-cides. No chemical inputs of any form. Fruits, vegeta-bles from such farms have the best taste, color, aroma, nutrition and medicinal value as compared to the pro-duce coming from all other farms.

NATURAL FARMING

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