Food Inc Articles.

Another Take; Fields of Poison:
So the Fields of Poison article explains how the farmers are getting sick from working with these different pesticides in the fields. When the "Agricultural Workers" as the article refers to them as work closely with these pesticides on a daily bases when mixing and applying the pesticides to the plants, by planting,weeding,harvesting,and processing the crops. They are also inhaling these different pesticides airborne causing illnesses. Some of the illnesses reported from the pesticides were nausea, dizziness, numbness, death and harder side effects to connect back such as cancer, developmental disorders, male infertility, and birth defects. The article states that this has been an increasing problem that many states and countries have been ignoring.There have been 3,000 reported cases of illnesses due to these different pesticides yet no one seems to be doing anything about the problem. California has been doing research on the topic and has been trying to get there act together since the release of an article about the issue in 1999. Some of the main pesticides reported as a poison case include Metam-Sodium with 646 cases, Adjuvant with 604 cases, and Sulfur with 453 reported cases.


The Scope Of The World Food Crisis:
So the "World Food Crisis" is caused by the increasing prices of food prices in crops such as Soybean,Wheat,Rice,Corn etc.Since 2006-2008 the crops like I listed above prices have doubled the amount they were set to be in the beginning of 2006 by the end of 2008.Some of the defects of this food crisis is that more people are suffering from world hunger.In the article it quotes"the figure of those that suffer from hunger has now increased to more than 900 million people." The article also read that "eighty percent of hungry people in the world live in rural areas where food is produced" A example of this would be countries like Asia, China, and Africa.One of the causes of the World Food Crisis is because of the rise in oil prices which increases the prices of the "industrial inputs" such as fertilizers, pesticides and food transportation which all need oil to be transported around to each destination.
Cheap Food; Workers Pay The Price:
The Financial Crisis and World Hunger: