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Throughout human history, as early as 100 BC, pesticides have been important in protecting crop products and in the early 1940s synthetic pesticides such as organophosphates, which are most common, became widely used to increase food production. In our modern society pesticide use is important and beneficial to almost every aspect of modern life. Yet, while the economic benefit of pesticides is apparent, pesticide use is a controversial topic primarily because they pose potential health risks. Firstly, pesticide use has important benefits in Massachusetts and the United States. According to CropLife America, which represents pesticides manufactures, farmers would lose 40% to 80% of their crop yield without pesticides and pesticide use brings in $1 billion annually for more than twenty-five states. Thus, pesticides substantially increase crop yield and meet a growing population’s demand for fruits and vegetables, concurrently reducing an average family of four’s grocery bill by 47.9%. Also, in Massachusetts alone, crop protection chemicals employ 2,722 workers and account for $70,894,030 in annual revenue, which according to an article in Interdisciplinary Toxicology is often invested in education or medical care. On the other hand, pesticide …show more content…
However, to overcompensate for being enkratic towards callousness, I must persuade others to not buy generic foods with pesticides and buy organic foods. This is over-compassionate because I consider farmers and young children’s health risks and extend this consideration beyond my own actions and myself. I must also be conscious of buying organic foods, deliberately will to buy organic foods for the sole reason of doing this, and this action must originate from the fixed moral disposition of being
Throughout human history, as early as 100 BC, pesticides have been important in protecting crop products and in the early 1940s synthetic pesticides such as organophosphates, which are most common, became widely used to increase food production. In our modern society pesticide use is important and beneficial to almost every aspect of modern life. Yet, while the economic benefit of pesticides is apparent, pesticide use is a controversial topic primarily because they pose potential health risks. Firstly, pesticide use has important benefits in Massachusetts and the United States. According to CropLife America, which represents pesticides manufactures, farmers would lose 40% to 80% of their crop yield without pesticides and pesticide use brings in $1 billion annually for more than twenty-five states. Thus, pesticides substantially increase crop yield and meet a growing population’s demand for fruits and vegetables, concurrently reducing an average family of four’s grocery bill by 47.9%. Also, in Massachusetts alone, crop protection chemicals employ 2,722 workers and account for $70,894,030 in annual revenue, which according to an article in Interdisciplinary Toxicology is often invested in education or medical care. On the other hand, pesticide …show more content…
However, to overcompensate for being enkratic towards callousness, I must persuade others to not buy generic foods with pesticides and buy organic foods. This is over-compassionate because I consider farmers and young children’s health risks and extend this consideration beyond my own actions and myself. I must also be conscious of buying organic foods, deliberately will to buy organic foods for the sole reason of doing this, and this action must originate from the fixed moral disposition of being