{"id":11276,"date":"2020-10-12T08:51:32","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T05:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=11276"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:16","slug":"poison-on-dinner-tables-kenyans-eat-chemical-laced-tomatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/10\/12\/poison-on-dinner-tables-kenyans-eat-chemical-laced-tomatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Poison on Dinner Tables: Kenyans Eat Chemical-laced Tomatoes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tomatoes are king when it is a matter of Kenyan meal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are not only the most consumed vegetable in Kenya, but also the second most profitable to farmers after potatoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, a new study by Kenyatta University researchers suggests that tomatoes consumed in Kenya are contaminated with the toxic chemicals farmers use during production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Some of the pesticides have been linked to cancer, malformation of the foetus and damage to the immune system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the study, it is almost impossible for farmers to successfully grow tomatoes without the use of pesticides due to the vegetable&#8217;s vulnerability to diseases and pests. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-star.co.ke\/counties\/nairobi\/2020-10-08-poison-on-dinner-tables-kenyans-eat-chemical-laced-tomatoes\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomatoes are king when it is a matter of Kenyan meal. They are not only the most consumed vegetable in Kenya, but also the second most profitable to farmers after&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}