Title: Pesticides (Marchwood-Scientific, 2009)
Summary:
In 2009 Marchwood-Scientific.com posted a photograph of a tractor dispensing pesticides on their pesticide informational page. The image is complimented by a short article defining pesticides and the effects they have on agriculture, farmers and consumers.
Topic: Sustainable Agriculture
Category: Business Institutional (image)
What is this? This is a photograph of a tractor dispensing pesticides
Publication Information:
Posted in 2009 by Marchwood-Scientific.com
URL: http://www.marchwood-scientific.com/js/tinymce/plugins/imagemanager/files/pesticides2.jpg
Author: No author given
Location:
http://www.marchwood-scientific.com/js/tinymce/plugins/imagemanager/files/pesticides2.jpg
Accessed: March 8th, 2009 11:40pm
Support:
The scientists at Marchwood-Scientific created a brief informative page on their website defining pesticides and their effects on the environment, consumers and farm hands. Other than the institution itself, their is no specific author given for the photograph or the webpage.
Audience and Agenda:
This photograph was published by Marchwood-Scientific.com, who is a privately owned waste management and environmental monitoring company. Marchwood-Scientific provides industrial waist management services for companies around the world. Unfortunately, there is no record for the number of hits for this photograph that are available to the public.
Usefulness:
This photograph and accompanying webpage were helpful in that they offered a comprehensive yet brief definition of pesticides and their effects. What this photograph and article leave out is the that some pesticides are sustainable. The implications of the text leave neglect to mention the use of safe pesticides. This photo directly relates to Tisher’s quiz about pesticides: How Much Do You Know About Pesticides and Your Food? (Tisher, 2009).
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