How Safe Are Our Vegetables? | Talking Point | Episode 43
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 มี.ค. 2020
- 90% of the food we eat is imported - including our vegetables. But what if we were eating vegetables that bypassed safety checks? In this episode, host Sharda Harrison heads to Johor Bahru to find out how smuggling operations work, and why vegetable sellers are flouting safety checks. Also, what happens to us if we eat vegetables that have been smuggled?
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This news story has clearly shown flaws in the Singapore sourcing system. We cant blame Malaysian exporters for it if the vegetables are coming in because our local system has failed.
The issue is the demand for visually appealing not about quality. Pest damage vegetables are edible and are as nutritional and healthy too.
Time to grow some of my own veggies. Use more natural pesticides. Learn to live with a few holes in my leafy green. Bugs need to live too.
Malyna Senger But I don’t need their eggs and maggots in my vegetables
Thats why we wash XD
Always two sides to an equation: buyers and sellers. If irresponsible buying doesn't stop, smuggling will continue.
Learn so much from this video
Every cross border delivery of fresh produce is declared by a Singaporean company before the singapore customs whether it is sent by a non singapore vehicle or not, The singapore company takes responsibility of the delivery.
Secondly the trucks send at “the middle of the night” as it is best time as there are no jams and no ERP. Singapore trucks also deliver vegetables at night as it can be sold first thing in the morning. You wouldn’t want your fresh produce trucks being stuck at the causeway in the middle of the day? CNA PLEASE BE MORE FACTUAL IN YOUR “EXPOSE”
Try this small experiment at home: take a slice of tomato and plant it in a pot. It should sprout a seedling within a few days. Now try to grow an actual tomato from this plant and you will have the answer to the question why pesticides are needed. Now, imagine trying to replicate this on a commercial scale where you need to meet daily or weekly production quotas.
I was hoping they would comment on those commercial vegetables cleaning products
You can't call a veg organic just because you don't spray the plant directly. The soil must be free of pesticide as well.
Another strong up and coming reporter from CNA Insider, kudos and keep it up!
It is easier to come out solutions on our side compared to telling others this cannot that cannot
just leave them alone they are those who can supply you when the world lock down.
Everynight food vegetables are deliver to every food store supermrket all over singapore.
Do they eat bagged salads from the supermarkets in Singapore? Have they had problems with bacterial contamination of leafy greens there like we have had in the U.S.?
Such "smuggling" have been practised for a long long time. Even though Malaysia is in a lockdown, I still see these Malaysian lorries engaged in such activities, which poses a significant threat to the health and safety of our people especially with the ongoing pandemic.
How is Customs able to allow smuggling at such a large lorry amounts?
Smugglers: Let's smuggler some "carrots" into the city.
The Reporter: Hold my limau Panas "kurang manis" 6:25.
i think we consumer should be less prior the beautiful of the vege but prior the healthy level of vege which does no harm to us
why you can come out to johor i thought the custom already closed not allowing any people can come in
Prerecord bru
Why fruits & vegetables are not grown without pesticides, like using vinegar, baking soda in the soil?
Wondering whether the vegetables we consume at coffee shops, hawkers, restaurants, hmmmmm....are they?
What else can also be smuggled in?
#MyLineageMySoul Most non-biased or non-exaggerated medium of Journalism 🇸🇬 💞
The Safety is YOU Should Always WASH Your Vegetables , Before You YUO Cook or you EAT. ..3 TO 5 MIN TO RENS OR SOAK IN COLD WATER JUST MAKE,SURE ALL THE,BUGS IS GONE OR DISSAPERD. .HEHE. .✌👀
Singapore should work towards self-reliance by investing in bio diverse & green agriculture practices. In this way, we reduce food wastage, human & capital loss. Grow our own food in 2 of the 63 islands in the country ! Do the same for fish, eggs & livestock !
For Organic produce that are safe, we can sell "ugly fruits & vegetables" at discounted price to commercial food caterers ! You can't tell the difference once they're cooked 😊
The Hard Truth is that there are no self-inspection & control authority (certification on quality of vegetables by exporting countries ) to Singapore. Only when exporting countries improve the food safety standards. Then this problem of too much pesticides can be resolved in relation to pricing. Up to date dynamic data analytics (AI) on vegetables need to be planned & implementation ( in Johor ) before shipment of vegetables. Hence little rejects, Toyota style of QA ( i.e. banana skins concepts).
I’ve ever bought iceberg lettuce from Giant, when I soak them, the whole basin of water turns green, like water colour 🥴🤮 I threw the whole 2 packets away.
best is to come out with some washing solutions instead of catch here n there.
There are organic vegetables and fruits selling at both Singapore and Malaysia supermarket. Is this type of produce free from pesticide?
@andylau Thank you for your information.
@andylau - I agreed with you. Planting our own vegetables and fruits will be the best option.
@andylau I'm not going to buy a farm land just to plant vegetables and fruits. However, I'll buy a landed home with a small garden is good enough for that purpose.
@andylau I've seen the video, and thank you very much for your kind assistance.
for restaurant we dont need to impress customer by the looks of the vege but in fact we should let them know why and explain to them the negetive side of pesticide
i think there is a way which to change the pesticide to a standard which the human body can consume the pesticide without any harmful affect
The problem is vegetables are never wash or wash properly. Is it safe for consumption if not washed properly with the pesticides on them?
use hydroponic and plant your own
Cuci je la sayur tu elok2 sebelum masak
So are the checks foolproof and 100% or not?
Should we ask how secure is our vegetable supply ?
the fruits without pesticide has lots of worms. unless if they will wrap it one by one which is difficult and too much hardwork. Our local organic is cheaper in wet market but it looks so bad with worms all over. You also cannot be sure if it is real organic because they can't possibly keep on inspecting. i have mangoes and papaya trees, they are organic, some good some bad. I planted tomatoes and squash but insects ate all of it. The tomatoes looks perfect but, if you peel off there is tiny white worms under the skin, it's super tiny. Fungus also destroys the plants. It's same anyway, the local and imported have pesticide so i'd still get the imported since the price is too high if local and quality is very bad. Less nutrition, tiny size, bad taste, but super pricy. Our gov doesn't even check properly with local.
Biased programme targeting only exporters in Malaysia.
What about vegetables shipped from Australia & China? How are those checked for safety since they are not transported in lorries from JB?
The government should takeover the food importation business.
Seems more like the issue is that they actually still have to pay Farmers after the vegetables were destroyed, I'd say if they weren't required to pay the farmers or at least pay Pastor the fine for them and then the other half is from the farmers that will actually sent it by the farmers to stop trying to pass it through
There is no safe food today my goodness
If government want a very safe food than they should provide equipment for farmer at no cost
1:43 jaywalking?
1 : 3, they will always come to singapore ane do business.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Even tho ure a vegetarian
You arent safe too😌
Dumb asses are dumb
You are dumb
Water is wet
Sky is blue
When are vegetables
only eaten by vegetarians
It doesn’t matter if you are vegetarian or not, stop fking linking vegetables to vegetarians
By your dumb ass logic
‘Covid19 is more dangerous to elderly
Even tho ure an elderly
You aren’t safe too😌’
Unless you want to be a deficient unhealthy ass
Eat your fking vegetables
Poems are cringey so is your emoji
^ Bit of an over reaction
cold storage 的金马伦菜就不错 ，叶子经常有虫咬的迹象，自我安慰一下，可能没农药。
I am refraining from eating meat. And now vegetable 😰 so what will i eat?
Organic grains, nuts, seeds, avocado's, 'organic' veg and fruit.
want nice looking vege, want cheap vege ...you probably cant get both
Mmmmmm
Veggie >:(
It's shocking that after 53years of Independence that this question is asked about the safety of our vegetables. How did customs allow these in?
"It's 10 PM at night."
What about it?
Does anyone actually soak their vege for 15 minutes?
@SmileZero ...I always make sure I wash my fruits/vegetables and then soak them in baking soda water for about 5-10 mins. It’s not good to soak produce for too long as the vitamins will ‘escape’ into the water and also the pesticides in the soaked water will go back to the vegetables. So it’s important not to cut or break the vegetables into small pieces before soaking or washing them. Sometimes I use a brush to clean produce that have stubborn layer of pesticides and white residues on them eg plums and apples.
They should stop destroying vegetables.They must be sent back to the farmers.The farmers need to be warned.
@Leander Barreto
20:29 The culprit farmers are warned, or given feedback the diplomatic term used here. Returning the vegetables to the farmers costs more tax payers money. Do use some logic.
Ugly veggies or fruit does not mean it's not tasty or healthy. Ignorant consumers.
our local vegetables are also full of pesticides. The imported is cheaper and bigger so you wouldn't like the local. Local is small, expensive and with pesticide as well. Locals is also depleted with nutrients, there is no proper composting and has too much bacteria.
Now eating vegan is dangerous too.I don't know what to eat in my life anymore
Spend a little extra money and eat organic. I'm also vegan.
Damm u are making me worries inspection at market did using mask no safety precautions
Stevens episodes are a million times better
destroying foods? Meanwhile there starvation problem hiding all over the place. You can find video of that topic on this very same channel.
if you want beautiful vege, then you should pay the added price to support the farmer. Absolutely hate the wanting "peng leng jieng" attitude.
Now no food liao... still hiam
Why should i care what's going on in Singapore wtf youtube show me something useful
repost sia
For God sick, food is food. There are more ppl & children than you could imagine can only have one meal per day. Do something useful journalists.
what a whole load of crap
There are ways not use pesticides to get rid of pest.
What are the ways?