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BLOG POST 4: HOW WE CAN HELP

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  The environmental impacts that come from farming and producing avocados are considerably harmful to the environment. In my blog post #3 I mentioned how because avocados are produced at such an industrial level, mass amounts of pesticide are used to ward off pests and insects from damaging the crop. These pesticides such abamectin poison water resources and are harmful to wildlife and humans. Before the 1940’s synthetic pesticides did not exist and so farmers resorted to organic methods to protect their crops. These organic pesticides such a s insecticidal soaps, corn gluten, baking so da, black pepper and garlic compounds etc. are known as bio-pesticides and ar e much less harmful to the environment . If we can resort to the implementation of natural solutions that do not require chemicals, we can achieve a much safer , cleaner environmental footprint and reduce the risks that pesticides propose to natural water resources, wildlife, and human health. One of the limita...
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BLOG POST 3: AVO AND PAPRIKA

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  Th e first ingredient I was curious to research in my food blog post was avocados...because they’re so delicious and I eat about 10 of them a week (not kidding). I found that the c ountry that currently produces the most avocados in the world is Mexico . According to a report published by the United States Department of agriculture, Mexico is estimated to have produced 2.33 million metric tons of avocados by the end of 2022. Nevertheless, insufficient rainfall and higher temperatures have slowed down the rate of production. Other countries such as the Dominican Republic and Peru come in close on the list of production of avocados. As I conducted my research, I noticed that many countries with warm, tropical, humid climates produced the most avocados. That is because avocados thrive in this kind of weather and need a substantial amount of water to grow and yield crops at a vast rate. Avocados surprisingly have a negative impact on the environment because they encourage def...
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