Agribusiness critics believe large-scale food production poses harm to consumer health and the environment which can be either true or false because growing rapid food production meets the need of the economy, farming methods are questionable to the environment, and obesity levels are a primary concern in today’s society. Author David Zinczenko in his article “Don’t Blame the Eater”, is one critic that shows the truth behind what’s important as we digest consumer goods. As he said in his article it’s not just the eater that is at fault it’s the companies that create the food (Zinczenko, pg. 242). For food industries, they are booming with success, with such low prices in restaurant’s it’s no wonder…
The utilization of these herbicides would induce long-term health and environmental effects on the people and land exposed to…
Rachel Carson’s “Obligation to Endure” is a well informative piece about the hazardous effects implemented by the careless distribution of pesticides in an uneducated society. She exposes the dark side of these chemicals with an overall goal to raise awareness and regulate control of the substances by the government. The first goal of Rachel is to make the citizens, pesticide companies, and government aware of this serious threat. Her second goal is to not ban these insecticides, but to persuade a regulation on what amount is reasonable. Carson uses her own credibility, along with logic, and statistics to create a strong and successful argument.…
Rachel Carson’s “The Obligation to Endure’’, Silent Spring (1962), she mentions, continued use of chemical pesticides will erase mankind if they are continued to be unregulated. She explains how it took millions of years to adapt to changes on earth, but chemicals are doing drastic damage to the world faster than it can adapt. She has one purpose, to inform the public on how our use of chemicals can destroy our planet and us. She is trying to create a relationship with the public in order to increase the public’s knowledge, making the last longer and better. Rachel Carson argues about the use of chemical pesticides are having an extremely negative effect on the Earth and its inhabitants.…
Although pesticides are commonly used in Canada for vegetable and fruit fields, several of them contain mutagenic properties such as gene mutation and DNA damage (Ahmadi 2011). At high concentrations some pesticides can increase incidence of cancer, suppression of the immune system, and neurological disorders (Ahmadi 2011). Pesticides bind with DNA through the grooves of the double helix, which in turn causes hydrophobic interactions between the pesticide and either the groove or wall of DNA (Ahmadi 2011). Pesticides bind covalently to DNA forming DNA adducts which increase the probability for mutations during replication (Ahmadi 2011).…
When people think of Canada they think of the glistening lakes, the Rockies, the oceans, and the great boreal forests. With 30% of the world’s boreal forest, and 10% of the world’s total forest, forests are an important part of Canada and the Canadian identity (Sustainable Forest, 2017). Which is why how Canada using those forests is an important question for Canadians. Currently the forests that are being used for logging are being controlled by an herbicide called glyphosate.…
Before the consumer becomes concerned about the chemicals on their fruits and vegetables they have the right to know what these chemicals are and where they came from. One source I found as to the origin of the so-called safe chemicals that are put on our fruits and vegetables is in part I of the book “Our Daily Poison” by Robin, (2014). She concludes that the pesticides and his friends that are currently being used on our produce are in point cousins of the same chemical compounds that were used during WWII as chemical warfare. This left me quite surprised, most people know the damage that chemical warfare did to the soldiers in the trenches and the side effects that they had to deal with after the war. This has left me thinking about what…
A top government honey bee researcher from South Dakota says he's being rebuffed for publicizing work on pesticides and pollinators. Jonathan Lundgren's exploration discovered honey bees and ruler butterflies can be hurt by a generally utilized class of bug sprays. In an informant case recorded Wednesday, the United States Agriculture Department entomologist claims he confronted striking back due to his examination. "When he began distributed this work, he went from brilliant kid to untouchable, and that is the thing that this case is about," said Jeff Ruch, official executive of the Washington, D.C.- based gathering Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, which is speaking to Lundgren in his protestation to a government informant…
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring is an environmental science handbook whose concern is the environment and life on earth. The author uses her book to turn in to the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment. Rachel mainly handles DDT and pesticides administered to American environment through aerial spraying in attempts to control insect populations over large areas. This paper seeks to summarize Carson’s Silent Spring and capture its informative nature in a global perspective. The essay will also indicate the book's relevance to the chemical industry.…
CEPA, The Canadian Environmental Protection Act, is the contribution towards a more sustainable development through more protection against pollution. The Canadian Government seeks achievement towards a more sustainable development, based on a more efficient use of natural, social and economic resources and considers any need to integrate environmental factors when making decisions by government. The Government of Canada has committed to put pollution prevention as a priority approach protection in the environment. It is also acknowledged that the need to almost eliminate the most constantly appearing toxic substance and the need to manage pollutants and wastes if their cannot be a prevention of their release into the environment. The significance…
DDT, a white tasteless and almost odorless crystalline solid, is an organochlorine contact insecticide that kills by acting as a nerve poison. DDT is categorized by the WHO as Class II "moderately hazardous". DDT was first synthesized in 1874; it was first used as pesticide in 1937 and for epidemic prevention in the US Army during the Second World War (Eriksson & Talts 2000). Its insecticidal properties were first discovered by Paul Müller in 1939, and it acts on the nervous system through modulation of voltage sensitive sodium channels. This modulation is known to cause the characteristic symptom called “DDT jitters”, which can be best described as the repetitive discharge in the nerve that leads to whole body tremors as a result of increased…
In Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, published 1962, the author brings forth the idea that we are poisoning ourselves and the environment through the common misuse of chemical pesticides during that time (Introduction). She believes that citizens must have the right to “be secure in his own home against the intrusion of poisons applied by other persons” (p xv under Introduction). In the face of obvious toxic effects of DDT and other chemicals, she reports that at the time, new chemicals were being introduced at the rate of 500 per year. (p 7). Thus, Carson coins the term “biocides” due to pesticides and insecticides’ effects to the environment and the circle of life (p 8).…
Science, chemical and big name companies had done hazardous experiments with the consumers food without the world’s communities approval and it still continues today. Labeling the genetically modified organisms was also known as “Proposition 37.” Genetically modified organisms had contaminated the food supply. “A GMO (genetically modified organism) is the result of a laboratory process where genes from the DNA of one species are extracted and artificially forced in the genes of an unrelated plant or animal” (Seeds of Deception). The results had no health benefits, only financial benefits to the companies that produce them.…
Agriculture, or the practice of planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops has many more layers than most realize. One overlooked factor is the role of certain species of animals known as pollinators in speeding up the breeding process of plants through pollination. One of the most important pollinators, the honey bee transfers the genetic info of male and female plants through pollen, and in return gets nectar to feed its colony (“Pollination”). While honey bees have been around for millions of years, “The yearly USDA-sponsored industry survey has recorded an average 30% loss of honeybee colonies in a defined window of time over the past several years” which could mean trouble for the plant life that depends on bee pollination (“Disappearing…
Since these are developing nations, few regulations exist on the expelling of chemical pollutants. Few regulations are a result of competition…