Whats more dangerous ? picking fruits and vegetables or being a police officer .?
The life expectancy of migrant farm workers is 49 years compared to the national average of 73 to 75 years. There are many diseases among the migrant people like, malnutrition, maternal malnutrition, dental problems, parasitic infections, hypertension, diabetes, and respiratory infections There are also many mental health problems too, including, depression, anxiety, and abuse. Many of these health issues are related to not having sanitary living and working conditions.
information provided by the FBI, we know that (on average) 70 – 90 police officers are feloniously slain each year while confronting the "bad guy" on the street. But research has shown that approximately 2,035 officers die each year from heart disease!4 An officer in the United States is 21 times more likely to die of heart disease than at the hands of a suspect or criminal.
Cancers from pesticides kill thousands each year and yet less then a hundred officers die .
Maybe we should raise the wages of farm workers considering the risk they take everyday .
Picking fruits and vegetables is more dangerous. It is like comparing automobile accident to aircraft crashes. Aircraft crashes get the headlines and automobiles accidents do not. Policemen getting killed will get National News coverage while working in a field picking vegetables will barely make the back page. Go Figure.
admin on September 13th 2009 in Diabetes Fruits and Vegetables
johnny cee responded on 14 Sep 2009 at 1:21 am #
Maybe you should stop buying those cancerous fruits and vegies, and buy only organic. That could certainly change
things for the better.
Yours truly,
a crunchy con.
I Cr 13;8a
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BOYD H responded on 14 Sep 2009 at 2:10 am #
Picking fruits and vegetables is more dangerous. It is like comparing automobile accident to aircraft crashes. Aircraft crashes get the headlines and automobiles accidents do not. Policemen getting killed will get National News coverage while working in a field picking vegetables will barely make the back page. Go Figure.
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wmcritter responded on 14 Sep 2009 at 2:37 am #
So let me get this straight: you are comparing uneducated people that are born, raised, and live in a 2nd world country, to educated people that are born, raised, and live in the wealthiest, most advanced nation in the world?
Next time try comparing apples to apples.
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Johnny 2 Times responded on 14 Sep 2009 at 2:51 am #
Another point to consider is that the use of pesticides on fruits and vegetables may actually DECREASE cancer.
One of the leading sources of cancer-preventing antioxidants is fruits and vegetables. If pesticides were not used, many of these same foods could become prohibitively expensive to may shoppers, thus reducing their ingestion of much needed antioxidants.
By reducing the cost of producing fruits and vegetables, pesticides actually SAVE lives, on the margin.
Edit: In addition, WE don’t control the wages of vegetable pickers. The market does.
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mymadsky responded on 14 Sep 2009 at 3:40 am #
I live in Miami. Not a good question to ask right now.
What is the life expectancy of that same farm worker if they stay in their own country?
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