good point, there are no guarantees. you just have to read and do research on different growers/companies. but there is information out there if you look for it.
maybe the smaller farmers but these big operations using illegals to pick their crops couldn't give a shit, i would imagine.
it is estimated that more than 70% of migrant farm workers in florida are illegal.
i agree, their should be plenty of lazy sods in georgia collecting the welfare, make them earn it
hell, i dont mind if they form a fucking union and then get fat pensions
i mean why not, that should keep the price of veggies down
or we could hire the illegals to teach our kids, at least they would learn some spanish
because no one would pick veggies when they can sit at home and do nothing and still get a check
actual work is a foreign concept to those cheating the system
then again, i dont find anything wrong with putting the prisoners out there to pick the veggies
they could put the non violent offenders out there to work some time off their sentence, a win/win
Unde rGeorgia Governor Deal's plan there is no mandatory requirement for parolees or probationers to take these farming jobs and probationers will receive a wage of $7.25 to $9 per hour, with no benefits, paid by private farmers and not by state funds.
The 2011 Georgia state minimum wage rate is $5.25 per hour....
i don't know of any pesticide or chemical that makes food healthier. maybe there is one, but i don't know of it. if there is, show us some research and we can evaluate it. i do know of many pesticides and chemicals that do a good job of keeping fruit and vegetables around longer which is designed to increase profits for the agriculture industry. i'm skeptical that this coincides with making the product healthier but again, i'm not the expert so i'll happily read objective contradictory research.
as for your other question, i wouldn't buy the rotted fruit. i used to buy the fruit and vegetables that looked big and ripe and perfect until i read what is sprayed on those products to make them look that way for a longer period of time than is natural. now, i buy organic fruit adn vegetables and also clean them as a precaution.
one more thing, even if there is some magical, artificial chemical that makes food fruit adn vegetables healthier, i still doubt it compensates for the thousands of pesticides and chemicals sprayed on our food that i believe are dangerous.
show me where i contradicted myself. in the meantime, i'll help you with your reading comprehension. my point has always been that the effect of spraying fruits and vegetables with many pesticides and chemicals is dangerous to us. read a book (or have someone read one to you, maybe an audio book), do some research (you can look that word up here) and i think you'll find a lot of sources that agree with that.
i continue to say that i don't know of any pesticides that make the food healthier. i don't think there is one. i haven't, in fact, researched all of the thousands of pesticides out there but i'm yet to hear of one that makes food healthier. as i said before, if you know of one, show us your information and we can evaluate it.
my comment to kapono, who always gets the benefit of the doubt because unlike yourself, he has intelligent things to say on various subjects, was that keeping food around longer, although unnaturally and dangerously, can be considered a benefit to people who need to eat something, even if it is tainted with dangerour pesticides, i.e. in those countries like somalia where there may be a shortage of food or food needs to travel a long way. however, for the overwhelming majority of us who have free access to food and can make choices, pesticides and chemicals are dangerous and should be avoided.
to continue our reading comrpehension instruction, show me where i said a rotting piece of food isn't unhealthy? i didn't. what i did say is that the dangerous pesticides and chemicals don't make the food healthy just because they keep them from rotting. you see, fruit and vegetables can be unhealthy even though they look good if they have dangerous pesticides and chemical residue on them.
when you get old enough to shop for yourself, you don't have to choose the rotting fruit/vegetables or the ones sprayed with a shit ton of chemicals and pesticides. you can save up your allowance or food stamps and buy organic from reputable sources.
let me access a small portion of my brain and try to understand your point. i think it is that pesticides make the food healthy or healthier because they keep the food from rotting longer. watch this video about mcdonalds french fries. it's a very simple experimient, you may not understand it. after one year, they look exactly the same because they are treated with chemicals and preservatives. do you think the chemicals made them healthy because they stay looking good for one year? you probably do. the organic french fries are molded and decomposing within a week. try to stay with me. i'm not saying you should eat the decomposed organic french fries. what this shows is that the cehmicals do very unnatural things to our food and should not be consumed.
now, show me what you still don't comprehend and i'll go over it one more time.
i'm hesitant to move on because this is a lot for you to take in. but this does address your argument. do you think an apple today is as healthy as an apple 30 years ago?
reasonable to what?
the going rate for the illegals
you sure do like to assume quite a bit
i dont recall mentioning any freebie for the farmer
now go pick a fight with someone else, i dont want to end up like be easy
reasonable to what? the going rate for the illegals
you sure do like to assume quite a bit
i dont recall mentioning any freebie for the farmer
now go pick a fight with someone else, i dont want to end up like be easy
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