by Vic Shayne, PhD

Are you a living organism? Of course you are…

When you go to Home Depot and walk through the garden shop there are all sorts of products made to kill bugs, mold, fungi and weeds. They are labeled with warnings that their ingredients are poisonous and may cause cancer. It’s not the same when you go to Whole Foods, Safeway or Piggly Wigglies. I find it crazy that food labels don’t carry the same warnings when they contain many of the same ingredients!

The Environmental Working Group (ewg.org), a watchdog nonprofit agency tells us “every year, as acknowledged by U.S. and international government agencies, different pesticides have been linked to a variety of health problems, including:

• Nervous system toxicity
• Cancer
• Hormone system effects
• Skin, eye and lung irritation

“Pesticides are unique among the chemicals we release into the environment. They are designed to kill living organisms — insects, plants, and fungi that are considered “pests.” Because they are toxic by design, many pesticides pose health dangers to people, risks that have been established by independent research scientists and physicians across the world.”

It’s not enough to just eat fruits and vegetables to stay healthy any more. You have to eat the varieties that are not poisoned by chemicals  designed to kill living organisms. YOU are a living organism, aren’t you? Why would you want to eat this stuff day after day?

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, people are routinely exposed to hundreds of industrial chemicals. The EWG tells us, “Most safety tests done for regulatory agencies are not designed to discover whether exposures to low doses of MIXTURES of pesticides and other toxic chemicals are safe, particularly during critical periods of development. True public health protection would require consideration of cumulative risks of exposure to multiple toxic chemicals over time.”

The next time you go to the store and stare at a head of lettuce or a basket of shiny red apples, try to look into the food as if you had Superman’s vision. If you’re successful, you’ll see the poisons and wonder why conventional food distributors aren’t made to warn you and your family about the hazards of eating bug sprays and weed killers.

photo credit: gamene

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