Pesticides

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PESTICIDES

 

 

 

The higher up one eats on the food chain, the more

one consumes concentrated toxins from flesh and body

fluids of animals.

 

Eat one portion of broccoli or

lettuce and you'll ingest one dose of pesticides.

 

Ingest body fluids from animals who eat thousands of

doses, and you deliver these same concentrated residues

of poisons to your own body.

 

This year, my solution was to grow my own veggies.

The plants taught me quite a bit, and thanks to

nature's perfect natural insecticide, nasturtium flowers,

my yield was enormous.

 

Is your body a warehouse for man-made chemical residues?

In 1991, the Journal of Environmental Contamination and

Toxicology, (Vol. 47) reported:

 

" A 1988 FDA survey of milk samples from grocery

stores in 10 cities found that 73% of the samples

contained pesticide residues. "

 

Pesticides can cause cancer, harm the immune system and

may be endocrine disrupters, according to an April 1997

report in Environmental Health Perspectives, Volume 105.

This journal revealed a serious health hazard for residents

of Hawaii:

 

" Between 1981 and 1984, the legal standard for

heptachlor residues in food (0.3 ppm) was exceeded

ten-fold in milk and dairy products...Follow-up

investigations found that the breast milk of

women who had consumed local dairy products contained

heptachlor at levels averaging 200 ppm -- some cases

exceeded 400 ppm...breast cancer incidence among

Japanese women in Hawaii increased 42% between 1970

and 1985. "

 

Where do most Americans get their concentrated doses

of pesticides from? Author Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D.,

wrote in Living Downstream:

 

" Indeed, the largest contributors to daily intake

of chlorinated insecticides are dairy products,

meat, fish, and poultry. "

 

Many residents of Vermont avoid Ben & Jerry's ice cream

like the plague.

 

They know that milk from Vermont cows

is tainted with a dangerous pesticide, atrazine. The

summer 1998 issue of Food and Water Journal reported:

 

 

" Atrazine is used primarily as a weed killer in the

production of feed corn.

 

This highly toxic herbicide

has been linked to many kinds of cancer, including

cancer of the breast, ovaries, uterus, and testicles,

as well as leukemia and lymphoma...European countries,

including Germany, Italy, Austria, and the Netherlands,

do not allow the herbicide to be used within their

borders.

 

According to farming averages and data

supplied by the Vermont Department of Agriculture, Ben

& Jerry's farmers now use thousands of pounds of

carcinogenic atrazine every year. "

 

Next summer, follow my lead and grow your own. Here are

photos of my garden. Note that I utilized the easily

managed square-foot gardening concept:

 

http://www.notmilk.com/garden

 

Robert Cohen

http://www.notmilk.com