Chemical Free Life A new report * from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revealed the agency found significant levels of toxic heavy metals in the U.S. food supply. The FDA found lead in 15% of food samples, arsenic in 43% and cadmium in 61%.
The Germans developed the term “statistics” to describe data generated for informing the State (note the root word). Statistics are easily used for propaganda purposes because they can sound very frightening, such as “Covid cases are up 100%,” without the knowledge of the underlying data that previously there were 0 cases and today there is 1. It’s all a matter of degree.
If you read the actual FDA report, you will discover that almost all of the food sampled had no trace of toxins. Further, the amounts detected were below (often well below) the threshold of concern. The report offers informative discussion of how these toxins occur naturally in soils and are absorbed by plant roots.
We all desire for our foods to be safe for human consumption, but achieving “chemical free” foods may be as unrealistic and unhealthy as Net Zero Carbon Emissions.
I tend to agree with the original author, Mother Mott. I don't think there should be toxic heavy metals in any of our food, especially food that children eat, owing to the devastating effect on brain development. As a child and adolescent psychiatrist, I've learned it's fairly easy for rich people to afford fresh organic food (which requires soil to test free of contamination). But poor families often have no choice but to feed their kids cheap processed food raised in toxic sludge and contaminated soils. I think people will find society as a whole bears the burden of successive generations with lowered IQs and emotional instability resulting from toxic exposures: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/children-brain-development-iq-endocrine-disruptors-chemicals/
Excellent points, and one of the positive consequences of C19 is it forced me and the fam to pay attention to what is in our food. Scary as hell! Our neighborhood started container gardening and it’s given me a new respect for farmers.
I’m learning about the importance of nutrition to physical and mental wellness, which I never considered before. But the one thing I absolutely will not do is EAT BUGS! Bill Gates can kiss my...:)
The Germans developed the term “statistics” to describe data generated for informing the State (note the root word). Statistics are easily used for propaganda purposes because they can sound very frightening, such as “Covid cases are up 100%,” without the knowledge of the underlying data that previously there were 0 cases and today there is 1. It’s all a matter of degree.
If you read the actual FDA report, you will discover that almost all of the food sampled had no trace of toxins. Further, the amounts detected were below (often well below) the threshold of concern. The report offers informative discussion of how these toxins occur naturally in soils and are absorbed by plant roots.
We all desire for our foods to be safe for human consumption, but achieving “chemical free” foods may be as unrealistic and unhealthy as Net Zero Carbon Emissions.
I tend to agree with the original author, Mother Mott. I don't think there should be toxic heavy metals in any of our food, especially food that children eat, owing to the devastating effect on brain development. As a child and adolescent psychiatrist, I've learned it's fairly easy for rich people to afford fresh organic food (which requires soil to test free of contamination). But poor families often have no choice but to feed their kids cheap processed food raised in toxic sludge and contaminated soils. I think people will find society as a whole bears the burden of successive generations with lowered IQs and emotional instability resulting from toxic exposures: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/children-brain-development-iq-endocrine-disruptors-chemicals/
Excellent points, and one of the positive consequences of C19 is it forced me and the fam to pay attention to what is in our food. Scary as hell! Our neighborhood started container gardening and it’s given me a new respect for farmers.
I’m learning about the importance of nutrition to physical and mental wellness, which I never considered before. But the one thing I absolutely will not do is EAT BUGS! Bill Gates can kiss my...:)