Breakfast treat
I’m proud to admit that I’m a treehugger, but I only obsess about it in some cases. Organic food is not usually one of them; I buy it if I can at the store, but the added price isn’t always worth it to this recently-out-of-college frugal kid. It’s all washed anyway, right? It doesn’t make that much of a difference.
My trip today went really well, but one of the things that stuck out most was my sunset drive past a well-known set of blueberry fields in Deblois. Maine prides itself of being a top producer of blueberries in the US (as well it should, as any drive through the Downeast region of Maine will show). Upon driving past these fields, I was greeted with fluorescent orange signs every few hundred feet informing me of the following information:
- The fields had been sprayed with the Imidan pesticide a couple of hours before I travelled through the area.
- People were not supposed to enter the fields for 24 hours.
- If entry was necessary, the persons should wear proper pesticide equipment or apparel.
Turns out there’s been some discussion about blueberry pesticide spraying. It also turns out Imidan is a possible carcinogen and neurotoxin.
What a coincidence. I always thought that adding a carcinogen and neurotoxin would really give my pancakes an extra kick.
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