Health Alert: 32% of Organic Produce Contains Rocket Fuel Chemical

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Permalink Reply by Theodore G. Cajuste on September 2, 2011 at 12:08am

*sigh* lol we just can't win, it seems like there is always SOMETHING dosen't it? It's cool though, instead of panicking lets takes this oppourtunity to glean a positive course of action instead of "the sky is falling" fear based response.

Like the article said get to know the people who are growing your food or as alot us say here grow it yourself! :-)

breeeathe

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Permalink Reply by Theodore G. Cajuste on September 2, 2011 at 1:14am

that's cool and maybe instead of trying to stop this in particular, we can educate people on how to grow their on food and shop at farmer's market, get to know the people growing their food. This way we can vote with our dollar in the plutocratic society we live in. Once people are educated on how to spend their money on their own gardening and/or at farmer's markets with reputable farms. It wouldn't matter if those other crops are getting sprayed with this that or the other thing because they will soon be out of business or they will have to change their practices to what would now be a more sustainable way or farming.

breeeeathe

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Permalink Reply by Theodore G. Cajuste on September 3, 2011 at 1:33am

you're right i misread the article, i thought the farmers were spraying the crops with it. I suppose the only way to know what your eating is if you grow it yourself

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Permalink Reply by Moiraine Damodred on September 4, 2011 at 8:14am

And verify you're not growing it in petrol water, having it rained on with petrol...:/! :(!

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Permalink Reply by Lauren on September 3, 2011 at 3:53am

If you read the studies referenced in the article the exposure even in organically produced vegetables is 10% of the EPA reference dose of 0.0007 g/kg/day.

 

"A reference dose is a scientific estimate of a daily exposure level that is not expected to cause adverse health effects in humans."

 

So yes, it's bad for you, but it's a minute amount and it appears to be in everything (even drinking water).

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16475313

http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/a4a961970f783d3a8525735900...!OpenDocument

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Permalink Reply by Diospyros on September 3, 2011 at 5:58am

Maybe not if it's a man-made nasty chemical, but things like arsenic, lead, mercury are all naturally occurring in minute quantities too.

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Permalink Reply by Diospyros on September 3, 2011 at 7:01am

No, but if they naturally occur in our food and have for millions of years, is it something to worry about?

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Permalink Reply by Chris Randall on September 3, 2011 at 8:02am

Lol I was just going to say that NF, you can't even win if you're a breatharian! 

 

Luckily, there are some ways around it........

 

Comic by Frederic Patenaude.

 

 

 

Chris Randall

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