Here's why. If you regularly eat kale, it might also be a good idea to make sure you wash it thoroughly. The Environmental Working Group just released its "Dirty Dozen" list for the year , which is a guide to the products that are covered in the most pesticides. It found that kale had the highest pesticide residues compared to nearly all other produce found on supermarket shelves in the US. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options.
Get the Insider App. Click here to learn more. Human trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring, or receipt of a person — through threats, force, coercion, abduction, fraud, or deception.
It involves the abuse of power or a position of vulnerability, and generally includes payments or benefits that control or exploit another person. The CEDAW committee Convention on the Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women , has criticised governments for failing to address trafficking properly. Women displaced by conflict and humanitarian disasters are less able to protect themselves against trafficking. As climate change speeds up global forced migration, and more people flee climate disasters, more women will become vulnerable to trafficking.
Who is creating the demand? These people should be sought out and punished too. COVID made at-risk groups even more vulnerable to trafficking, as well as creating new risks and challenges for survivors. Victims' growing debt to their traffickers also increased during the pandemic. Sheltering in place meant more rent and food costs for traffickers; leaving the victim to foot the bill.
Because of this debt, people are forced into exploitative informal labour, prostitution, or online pornography. This is also likely to impact the children of victims — as debt bondage encourages child labour — resulting from more trafficking from desperate families in rural areas. Respondents gave a laundry list of obstacles for victims; issues like how difficult it was to access identification, housing, and social services like interpreters and lawyers. School closures, increasing domestic violence, economic insecurity, have put children at greater risk.
This will undoubtedly affect their development potential — particularly when their education is impacted — which may in turn heighten their vulnerability to exploitation as adults. Another issue facing children is their increased time spent online during the pandemic. Grooming and exploitation through gaming sites and social media platforms has increased, alongside the demand for Child Sexual Abuse Material CSAM — a major sign that trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation online is increasing.
So what can we do about all this? But how will you know it when you see it? With ordinary houses or hotels being used more frequently as brothels, and restrictions lifting, trafficking may be easier to spot. Being unable to travel freely, for example always being picked up and dropped off at work by another person. Regularly moved to avoid detection, or being moved to another brothel, sometimes from city to city.
Living somewhere inappropriate, like a work address or somewhere cramped, unhygienic or overcrowded. This includes caravans, sheds, tents or outbuildings. Having communication controlled by somebody else, and acting as though they are being instructed by another person. Providing a prepared story which might be similar to stories given by other children but struggling to recall experiences. Dressember, a top-performing charity in the Kinder evaluations, works tirelessly to combat human trafficking.
To continue their work with victims and survivors, Dressember has had to shift their strategy and introduce online training sessions — to prevent trafficking and help survivors financially due to job losses. Most social media websites are full of toxic behavior. Wikipedia spinoff WT. Social is taking a different path. Could their experimental approach to combating baseless views and brainless discussions be just the thing we need?
No more seeing dentist adverts when you were just talking to your friends about your wisdom tooth trauma. You have the ability to directly edit misleading content, giving power to the community to correct misinformation. All of this culminates into one final promise: you will actually enjoy spending time on social media.
Unbeknownst to many of us, platforms use manipulative techniques— and even promote addiction. Simple things like the blue colours of the two most popular social media platforms actually serve a more sinister purpose; not only is blue used to invoke feelings of trust, the colour blue also combats sleep more than any other colour.
According to the Office for National Statistics , around 1 in 5 children aged have experienced online bullying in England and Wales. To add to this, harmful information is rife. Kale is routinely cheap here in my part of Ontario. For some reason, lettuce tends to be more expensive. The idea that kale represents a prestigious or aspirational ingredient at genuinely expensive restaurants is I mean, not that it doesn't get used sometimes, but that it's sold as a lead ingredient that "elevates" the dish to "justify" the price Though I admit I haven't eaten in many high-end vegetarian restaurants.
On that basis, you might as well take against celeriac. Kale is more expensive than pre-washed spinach in western Oregon, shopping non-organic at cheaper grocery stores.
I ate a lot more kale in Mississippi, where it was cheaper relative to other greens. Kale grows fine in Oregon, but I also don't see the giant bags of pre-washed shredded kale I'd buy in the south. Maybe just more a culture of greens-eating down south? One other reason could be that most people don't eat kale stems. Depending on how carefully you de-stem the kale, you can end up with quite a bit less than the volume of the original bunch you paid for, as opposed to iceberg or romaine lettuce where you can eat almost all of it.
So if you're judging the price of something by volume, rather than by nutritional content or taste quality , you may find kale to be a rip-off. While it's more widely available now than even five years ago, it's still in the more 'trendy' end of the vegetable spectrum.
Yeah, I think they're making enough kale to meet demand now, but, funny story: last year right before that big blizzard here in nyc, I went to the hipster grocery store in my rapidly gentrifying neighborhood and there was a huge hole where all the emergency kale was stocked Also no fiji water.
It's one of the easiest plants to grow in the garden. It also reseeds itself if you let it. So it's practically free to the gardener, making even a low price at the grocers seem absurd. I have a lot more respect for the price of Belgian endive, which is complex to grow, or asparagus, which has to grow for a few years before harvesting can begin. Hence this winter, it'll be more reasonably priced.
The mania for kale over the last 18 months has been remarkable nonetheless. It reminds me of the fad for kale's sibling, cavolo nero, a decade or so ago, and the craze for wild rocket a decade before that. It's more intense, though, because kale's moment has been driven by a zeal for its supposed health benefits. For those of us who take our super-foods with a grain of salt and pepper, I can highly recommend it as a worthwhile addition to the veggie patch.
Kale, like cavolo nero, is a kind of cabbage that doesn't form a head.
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