China And Claiming Them As Theirs ( 335 ) - 1542 Words

in China and claiming them as theirs (335). Not only did the USDA allow companies throughout the United States to pass imported goods as their own, but it shows how well the quality and the safety of the produce was compromised and allowed by the government. As stated by Jerome Rodale in Chenglin Liu’s article he â€Å"provided a platform for spreading his belief in organic food and distaste of chemically induced agriculture†¦ Even though Rodale s ideas were met with skepticism, resistance, and even ridicule, organic farming gradually gained momentum through his persistent efforts† (337), with people knowing the harm that such farming could bring to them people carried on with what they were interested in at that moment without ever taking a†¦show more content†¦Even though many people have a picture of organic food in their mind rules such as these do not follow through with their promises, which as a result leads to people coming face to face with unknow n illnesses which can even lead to death. Consequently, for the lack of the enforcement of USDA laws products that are supposedly organic are going out to the public and cause harm to the people who consume it for the reason that the way that the produce was grown or either imported with illnesses. On the contrary, many may argue that even though organic food at times possess such threats they do not come close to comparing to the threats possessed by chemically treated foods. Researchers such as Joanna Jurewicz, believe that children being exposed to pesticides at any time during foetal life will have some type of health effect. She addressed that each year â€Å"almost 50,000 children are poisoned annually by exposure to pesticides† (Jurewicz 71), while emphasizing that the most common health effects are on foetus and young children. She proposed that all acute exposures to pesticides cause â€Å"skin irritation, lesions in the respiratory tract, and severe toxic neurologic effects†, in long exposure she blames their constant motive to put everything in their mouth and their immature detoxification systems with how they are the easy target for pesticides and chemical