Title: I think it’s the pesticides in the Veggies! (July, 26th 2008)
Summary:
On July 26th 2008, Blogspot blogger, perfectpear23 posted a cartoon by ,New Zealand cartoonist, Stan Eales that poked fun at the raising concern about dangerous pesticides on produce.
Topic: Sustainable Agriculture
Category: Citizen Commentator Blog ( Image )
What is it? This is black and white cartoon posted to a Blogspot blog
Publication Information:
I think it’s the pesticides in the Veges! (July, 26th 2008)
Posted July 26th 2008, on “Jennifer’s” blog: perfectpear23.blogspot.com
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Author: Stan Eales
Location:
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Accessed: March 11th 2009, 1:52pm
Support:
Stan Eales is the author of this image. He is a New Zealand born cartoonist who has been animating for more than two decades. He used his artistic talent and wit to create this humorous cartoon about a child sick in bed from eating pesticide contaminated vegetables.
Cartoonstock.com logo is printed in the top left hand corner of this image. They are the online cartoon stock-house that sold the right to use this image.
Blogspot hosts
perfectpear23′s blog who posted
Stan Eales’s cartoon.
Audience and Agenda:
Stan Eales is a New Zealand born, freelance cartoonist who began publishing his work shortly after he moved to the UK in 1987. Since then, he has been published in
Playboy magazine,
Punch,
The Spectator and many other magazines and newspapers.
Stan Eales was inspired by New York cartoonists like Chas Adams and
Saul Steinberg. He defines himself as a “single panel gag” cartoonist.
Blogspot is the blogging site that hosts
perfectpear23′s blog who posted this cartoon.
Blogspot had 48.2 million online hits in Feb 2009. They debued in 1999 and were purchased by
Google Inc in 2003.
Google Inc is an advertising corpiration that provides many services includeing an internet search engine and online mapping.
Usefulness:
This cartoon was created to be humorous, and show the irony of the pesticide problem in the world today: A child who is sick from pesticides resorts to chips, burgers and pizza as safe alternatives to vegetables.
Stan Eales created this cartoon for anyone who likes a good laugh and poking fun at current events. This cartoon jokingly suggests that pesticides are such a big problem that children may be better off eating junk food instead of agriculture products grown with pesticides. This cartoon leaves out the fact that some pesticides are natural, organic and perfectly safe. It also fails to mention that hamburgers, pizza and chips also contain products that are typically grown with pesticides. This cartoon was very useful in answering my
should question because it points out the growing fear and uncertainty people have about today’s produce. This source approaches agricultural issues in many of the same ways as the animated film:
The Meatrix. Through humor and artistic expression, these sources simultaneously entertain and inform.
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