Farming+Drew

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Do you know whats in your drinking water? Your water could be contaminated with illnesses such as food poisoning. You could also be infected with cancer. Do you know whats in the water your animals drink? Your animals could come down with cancer too. This all comes from the chemical run off from farmer’s fields because they are using to many herbicides and pesticides.

Chemicals run off into drinking water and poison the water. In 1985 more than 1,000 people were affected by food poisoning. Its also been known to cause cancer. Animals are also affected by drinking the water in farmland run off streams and creeks. The water can contaminate ponds and if animals drink this water it can cause cancer too. The way to prevent this is too go organic and not use pesticides and herbicides.

There are ways to stop it we can use fewer chemicals and go organic. People don’t die when they drink the water but it’s very likely that it can cause cancer. You can get really sick with many of diseases that come from the contaminated water if you drink it. So it’s not a good idea to let your kids or pets to drink this water or they could get really sick.

The farm run off is running off into the ocean and killing off fish and other sea life. It’s showing a decline of tuna, cod, and other popular fish species by 90%. There are few ways we can stop it and that’s by going organic and use fewer chemicals. Going organic means that the farmers use manure, compost and organic wastes. These are used for fertilizers.

The underground water with the chemicals in it can give off toxic fumes that come up into houses and businesses. It is not likely to be fatal but can cause one bad case of food poisoning or worse you could cancer. So the chemicals are pretty harmful but rarely deadly.

Why do farmers even need chemicals? Well they need them to kill off weed and pests. Also the commercial farmers need them for healthy crops to put on market in grocery stores. If you want healthy foods for your family you want the farmers that the food comes from to use chemicals. It keeps the crops protected from insects that could eat the crop and ruin it by crawling in it and making it rotten.

Farmers use to many chemicals and its poisoning our water and causing some big problems. One problem in the illnesses it causes one main one is cancer, the other is food poisoning.