"Whats On My Food?"
Lettuce: 52 pesticides found; 3 known carcinogens; 17 hormone disruptors; 10 neurotoxins; 8 developmental/reproductive toxins; 14 honey bee toxins
Roast Chicken: **Not listed, I assume this is because its a meat
Black Beans: 1 pesticide found; 0 known carcinogens; 0 hormone disruptors; 0 neurotoxins; 0 developmental/reproductive toxins; 0 honey bee toxins
I founds these results to be a little all over the map for me. On the one hand, 'lettuce' raised a huge red flag for me. Although the pesticides that threaten my own health are alarming and terrifying, I honestly felt more upset about the 14 honey bee toxins! Being raised a bee keeper - I HATE the idea that my food choices could be hurting honey bees. The 'roast chicken' had nothing listed because its a meat so it doesn't really fall into this category and the 'black beans' had basically nothing reported for them. I wonder if the reason for the 'black beans' coming up so clean is because they get shelled, washed, and canned before being tested. This might account for there being so little pesticide residue on them though I suspect they are still exposed to pesticides while on the farm and on the vine.
Hi Alex,
ReplyDeleteWOW. I did not expect to see that lettuce had 52 pesticides. That is pretty insane! Will this change the trajectory of your eating in any way? - Christina KH
I love lettuce! I cannot believe that is has this many pesticides :O. I wonder if the amount of pesticides change with different types of lettuce such as iceberg and romaine?
ReplyDeleteResponse: Christina
ReplyDeleteYou and I both discovered the same thing with this exercise! Low pesticide levels in meat, CRAZY high levels in our vegetables! It really is such a tragedy that we're experiencing such high levels in our foods.
Response: Brianna
Thank you for drawing attention back to farm workers at the end of your Blog. As much as we're exposed at home (after we've rinsed, dried, and prepared the food) the farm workers see the most of these pesticides and run the highest risk from them.