M8.3 Pesticides

My last meal was pasta with vegan sausage. The spaghetti product was made from whole grains, the tomato sauce was made from organic tomatoes, and the vegan sausage was made from wheat gluten. From the website, it stated that wheat grain has 4 pesticide residues, which are deltamethrin, azoxystrobin, boscalid, and metconazole. Conventional tomatoes contain an astounding 35 pesticides residues! Of these pesticides, 3 are known or probable carcinogens, 12 are suspected hormone disruptors, 6 are neurotoxins, and 3 are developmental and reproductive toxins. Tomatoes are on the list of EWG's dirty dozen, so I am glad I have chosen an organic tomato product. The public health implications are that the government needs to ban these chemicals being used on the foods that we consume and the government needs to incentive growers to grow foods organically.