Saturday, March 17, 2007

Pesticide Concentration

This image was meant to demonstrate how pesticides can concentrate as they go up the foodchain. This also was a black and white pen drawing, but I thought the color would attract more attention. The first level of the food pyramid is corn, the second is the chickens, and the last a local campesino "farmer" who may not realize that she might be eating all the pesticides in the crops.

I'm told the colors here are a bit scary, OK but the subject is too. Some of these poisons are up in the Arctic circle.

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