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by Guest » Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:06 pm
i give my crabs some fresh food, but honestly is our frresh food really any safer for them? as humans we can take a lot of pesticides and poisons in our bodies that a little hermie cannot. so we might not notice that bit of poison on that apple, and that little bit of cyanide won't do us in on those beans, but they could be lethal to a tiny crab.
with all of the chemicals being absorbed by plants as they grow and being dumped on them as well, the fruits aren't necessarily any safer than the store bought food. i mean these products list their ingredients, but what is in an orange?does it list the chemicals used to help it grow to kill weeds and insects, to clean it, to keep it ripe on the store shelf?
no they just call it an orange. how many people have died from bacterial infection after eating tainted spinach?
i agree the chemicals may be bad, but they are also on the bottom of the list of ingredients, so the amounts of them in the foods are very slight, for all we know the amounts in the fruits and veggies we buy could be worse.
if they are form your own garden they are likely safe, but even then, maybe your soil is rich in copper and your plants have more copper than is healthy.
my point is that if we could all grow our own food we would likely be healthier, yet we buy most of our stuff at a store where we can't ensure that it is safe. so don't feel bad for feeding your crabs store bought crab food unless you plan on not buying store bought food as well.
at least with the store bought stuff i know that the crabs are getting the good things, i can't stop them form getting the bad, but i can try to make sure they get the good.
ok i'll stop now, lol.
