M8.3 Pesticides

The India pesticide movie was pretty difficult to watch. The workers have zero protection and work with the worst chemicals in the world for a couple bucks.

Well, the last meal I had was spaghetti and marinara sauce. My wife and I make our own sauce from produce purchased from Safeway. I thought for sure this would be a pretty safe bet for pesticide cleanliness. Although somewhat right, I still didn't like the fact that a neurotoxin was found to be in tomatoes. The specific pesticide was methamidophos at found 2% of the time. It is also a high bee toxin.

I wanted to look up a another meal I commonly have and that is sweet potatoes and peas. Sweet potatoes are loaded with carcinogen pesticides! It is (dicloran) found 42% of the time in samples. So disappointing. Would organic help? Since I could not locate regular peas, I used baby food peas. Not much going on with peas. There was a 0.3% finding for Myclobutanil which is a reproduction and hormone disruptor.

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  1. Sandy TanOctober 19, 2018 at 12:11 PM

    Hi Dan,
    That's shocking to know that sweet potatoes have carcinogenic pesticides! I often eat sweet potatoes for breakfast and as snacks and it's crazy to find out that I might have ingested a lot of carcinogenic pesticides. This makes me want to look into if the sweet potatoes my family buys are organic or not.

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  2. UnknownOctober 24, 2018 at 12:16 AM

    Hey Dan,
    And I thought sweet potatoes were harmless! How disappointing. Glad to hear that peas are not super high on the harmful chemical list though!

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