Category Archives: Pesticides

Food Pesticides

Acid Rain Attacks the Gulf – Part 1

While America ponders the effects of the BP Deepwater Horizon Well explosion on wild life and first responders, the plight of the average American in the Gulf has been either ignored or placed on the back-burner. The government, media and … Continue reading

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Why Food Pesticides So Dangerous to Your Health.

  Many food crops, including fruits and vegetables, contain pesticide residues after being washed or peeled because many pesticides and herbicides are systemic, which means they penetrate into the fruit and vegetable itself and cannot be washed off. Scientists say … Continue reading

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Statistics on Why Food Pesticides Are So Dangerous to Your Health.

  Mark McCally, a New York physician who conducted an early bio-monitoring study, said roughly 1,500 new chemicals come onto the market each year. Like the 70,000 that preceded them since World War II, “some of them are not tested … Continue reading

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