Showing posts with label Pesticides. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pesticides. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Chemicals are foundation behind OBESITY..!


When it's not safe to breathe, how is it safe to eat

உண்டி முதற்றே உணவின் பிண்டம் (“Undi muthatrey unavin pindam”) is a famous quote by Thirumoolar. It means that “Food is the ultimate thing for our body”. Way before the advent of Green Revolution, agriculture was purely meant for food grain production. But after the revolution, it turned out to be commercial business and marketing. The chemical fertilizers used by Americans and Europeans had entered the virgin soils of India, not only in food grain production,  but also in cattle and poultry. 




In order to boost milk and meat production, the cattle were not left to graze in the open field and instead was put in between bars. These animals were continuously fed with supplements which are otherwise not safe for human consumption.  As a result of this, it was found that in America girls aged 7 are attaining puberty. This percentage is doubled every 10 years, same persists in china. 

Apart from this, artificial chemical foods are being used to feed chicken and goat. A research in America showed that 27% of people with eating habits of chemically fed meat are suffering from obesity. It is said that “one-fourth of  the world population is starving for food” on the contrary, many people eat more than what they need and get affected by obesity.

It is estimated that nearly 1 crore ton of chemical fertilizers are used for cultivation of corn in America. In addition to this, pesticides and fungicides. There is no food scarcity in America, but no one can assure the produce is 100 percent free from chemicals or poisonous. Perhaps, to prevent themselves from mystic diseases like cancer they are turning to organic or natural farming. Even, in many locations of America, cattle are made to graze in open fields.

One of the staple food of India is paddy(rice). Approximately 10 crore 85 lakh acres are used  for paddy cultivation and in 2009-10 the yield was about 8 crore 93 lakh tonnes. Experts say that nearly 5000 litres of water is spent to raise 1 by kg of rice under chemical fertilizers. All our rivers are dried up, and now we are  sucking the underground water to meet the water demands. But in natural farming it is proved that paper thin water level is enough for production. Moreover, many farmers say that alternate wetting and drying pattern is enough for traditional paddy varieties.

Moreover, traditional paddy varieties are resistant to diseases and pests by their genetics. Hence, it is high time to turn natural farming system in order to conserve land and water from getting polluted and depleted and for us, human mankind to reap poison less food to lead a healthy and mystic disease free life.

Monday, September 15, 2014

Go Organic!!!

"Archaeological evidence points to this area being one of the longest continuous habitations in the Indian peninsula. In Adichanallur, 24 km (15 miles) from Tirunelveli, archaeologists from the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) unearthed 169 clay urns containing human skulls, skeletons, bones, husks, grains of rice, charred rice and celts of the Neolithic period, 3,800 years ago."  Source: Wikipedia

Evidences show that Tamilians were cultivating grains for the past 3800 years. The discovered grains are still preserved! But, the modern age, turned every single human to run after money, rather than a healthy life. We work, and then work, and then work hard, sacrificing our family, to end up with diabetes, cancer, heart attack and many more diseases. Ultimately, all our hard earned money goes to those hospitals who treat patients as money pumping machines. Are we in peace, from the day we entered the corporate world,  until we retired or even post retirement?

Answer: NO.

We eat well thinking that we're having food that is safe for human consumption. Perhaps, we're wrong..! All our food products packed or unpacked, from whole grain to Tea dust - everything comes with at least two pesticides.

Think for yourself! Farmers just dip the seed they sow, into pesticide cans, before they sow in the land. After seedling, yet another pesticide is sprayed, and this continues till harvest, with a gap of 15-18 days between each spray. Coming to LAND, the green revolution had introduced many CHEMICALS and they termed it as FERTILIZERS. Oxford dictionary quotes Fertilizer as "a chemical or natural substance added to soil or land to increase its fertility". Soil fertility lies in its micro-organisms and earthworms. If these chemicals are termed "FERTILIZER" why do they kill the microbes and worms. Stunned? Check out the farmer's land who only use fertilizer and pesticides, you can never find a single earthworm even if you dig 6 feet deep. During our childhood we saw beautiful butterflies around the fields, but today? Its nearly EXTINCT!!!

When farming practices followed, in all aspects, is with the help of chemicals and pesticides, then how could you believe you're eating natural??

Turn back, let us turn our dead soil into live one...! That's the only way we can lead a healthy life. It takes only 3 years to rejuvenate our soil. Our ancestors owed soil as God. Let us use organic manure, vermi-composts, and believe we can make a revolution..!

"The food you eat can either be the Safest and Powerful form of Medicine or the Slowest form of POISON"