User:VictorSilva9/sandbox

Illegalized weapons of warfare being sold and used in the commercial market. *Maybe something like "Gaps in Regulation of Chemical Agents"

The title is quite rough and tentative, and could use some feedback. It is essentially trying to concisely convey the research topic of weapons, such as mustard gas and military-grade firearms, being too inhumane and illegalized in warfare, yet hardly regulated in markets involving public citizens. For example, mevinphos has been used as an insecticide for various crops grown in the U.S. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to consumers, and especially to the hired cultivators physically handling the chemical, it is an organophosphate, which is a group of chemicals that inhibit a certain enzyme (acetylcholinesterase) from regulating a neurotransmitter (acetylcholine) that is responsible for muscle activation. This lead to numerous documented cases of farm workers severely convulsing and dying from the insecticide. The tragedy is that organophosphates, including mustard gas, were declared by the 1925 Geneva Convention as a warcrime for being too inhumane. Yet, these same chemicals are massively and recklessly being used on American food sources.

Printed literary pieces will likely be necessary to have thorough research on the vast amount of warfare laws. The internet may likely continue to prove useful in finding those illegalized weapons being purchased and used by the public. However, it may be hard to find sources, printed and electronic, that are sufficiently credible, besides reading transcripts and legal documents from the Geneva Conventions. Feedback and guidance on finding the right sources would greatly be needed. There is also some concern whether this topic may be too open-ended and have a lot of dead ends in research questions. This was certainly experienced in the previous unit project, which was a literature review on the relationship between nutrition and brain health. Throughout the research of that literature review, a lot of the sources found did not directly answer subtopic questions, provide sufficient information, or had questionable credibility. This is the reason why a lot of subtopics that were previously going to be answered were not covered, such as foods that lead to optimism and extrovertism, as well as their negative counterparts, which in those cases would be pessimism and introvertism.