Strawberries Can Give You Cancer? Poison Gases Being Used to Grow Crops

[marmar]

Posted by Jill Richardson at 1:34 pm
June 22, 2010

Strawberries Can Give You Cancer? Poison Gases Being Used to Grow Crops


Mmm, fresh, red, plump, juicy strawberries. You know what tastes really great with them? It’s a secret I learned as a kid. Dip them in sour cream and then dip them in brown sugar. Delish. Or dip them in homemade whipped cream, or chocolate, or both. Or, if they are fresh picked, just eat them plain. But you know what doesn’t taste good with strawberries? Cancer.

Today, the scientists at Pesticide Action Network released a document called Poison Gases in the Field: Pesticides put California families in danger. It’s about tests done with a device called a Drift Catcher that monitors the air for fumigant pesticides. They gave it a try in the California town of Sisquoc to see how well local residents were protected from airborne, carcinogenic pesticides. The answer? Not well.

You see, nature doesn’t think much of commercially grown strawberries. That’s because nature doesn’t like monoculture – vast fields of a single species, year after year. So if you want to overcome nature by growing strawberries as a monoculture, you need some potent toxins to do so. And that begins with soil fumigation, a process that uses a deadly chemical to kill everything in the soil before you plant your strawberries. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/06/22/would-you-like-cancer-with-that/

[polichick]

1. Buying locally grown organic fruits and veggies at a farmer's market or coop...

...is the best way to avoid poisons. Grapes are also heavily sprayed.

[hobbit709]

2. But what are you breathing when you're downwind of one of these places.

[polichick]

3. REALLY bad stuff. nt

[izquierdista]

4. The only poison gas in my strawberry patch...

...is when I had beans for dinner the night before. :hide:

[Speck Tater]

5. Me too. I LOVE my backyard strawberry patch. nt

[SocialistLez]

6. Awww shucks. I guess I am happy I pay the extra bucks for organic strawberries.

I hope that makes a difference.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. I am so glad I am alleric to strawberries.

However, it is not only the strawberry fields that are poisoned, Michael Pollan talks about other
mega farm crops.
Also, btw, cotton. Just finished a book which talked about how many times cotton is sprayed.

[Hawkowl]

8. Strawberries don't taste like strawberries anymore

I've stopped eating them because although they are GIGANTIC, they taste something like a cross between an unripe banana and an appleseed. Now I know why.

[Politicalboi]

9. Coming to a store near you

Mmmmmm Tomacco.

[midnight]

10. Why do we have to put poison on any of our food?