Over 1,000,000,000 (One billion) pounds of active ingredients in conventional pesticides are applied each year in the United States. Even more alarming is the government’s information on the potential health effects of pesticides.
I am quoting the EPA’s own FAQ here: “The health effects of pesticides depend on the type of pesticide. Some pesticides may be carcinogens. Stay away from the commercially grown food!
Economize & eat healthy & – grow your own organic food!! The EPA is in charge of our safety from pesticides. They receive a sizable helping hand from the manufacturers of the pesticides. The EPA is charged with setting maximum levels of pesticides likely to be present in food. “The EPA accomplishes this by requiring pesticide manufacturers to submit information that answer basic questions about what residues are present in foods & in what quantities.”
The manufacturers submit information regarding the residues of pesticides found on crops grown in the field when applied using the highest rate allowed by the product label. Do you trust the pesticide manufacturers with the safety of your food? If not, the only way to make sure that our food supply is safer is to grow you own organic food.
The EPA also requires a battery of toxicity tests in laboratory animals to select a pesticide’s potential for causing adverse health effects, such as cancer, birth defects, & adverse effects on the nervous technique or other organs. Tests are conducted for both short-term (acute) & long-term (chronic) toxicity. For chronic effects other than cancer, laboratory animals are exposed to different doses of a pesticide to select the level at which no adverse effects occur. [Quoted from EPA Fact sheet].
Feed your children healthy food & lower your grocery bill.
