How prevalent are pesticides?

Do you know you had pesticides for breakfast this morning? And how was the pesticide sauce on your chemical salad last night?

These may seem like crazy questions. But they are not. Pesticides are EVERYWHERE! They infiltrate everything we eat, drink, breathe and apply to our bodies.

How can this be? Surely the levels of chemical pesticides are low enough not to cause harm, right? Companies would not dream of harmonizing the public for their own benefit and profit, would they? Certainly the responsible government agencies are in place making sure we don’t get poisoned, right? Maybe?

Well, no, no and no.

The incidence of pesticides in our daily lives may not be so bad individually… (key word here)… but collectively it’s mind-boggling. Maybe your food sources aren’t so bad: Choose organic foods, avoid processed foods, and eat fresh foods instead of foods loaded with preservatives. Thanks god! But that doesn’t take into account the fact that your carpet is loaded with chemicals, including the pesticides used in creating the fibers. And your workplace (or school, grocery store, mall, etc.) is religiously sprayed with chemical pesticides that are odorless and colorless, so you breathe in poisons every day and don’t even know it.

And most of these pesticides are synthetic, meaning they don’t exist in nature. So what, you ask? Well, just a minor issue about that because synthetic substances cannot be processed by the human body. Once we inhale, absorb, or ingest them, they are forever trapped in our bodies. Cute.

To account for corporate profits on hazardous pesticides, individual exposures are not of much concern. Big Chemical’s marketing machines have brainwashed the public into thinking that “the stronger the chemical, the better” and that these readily available pesticides (mosquito repellant, ant killer, etc.) are “perfectly safe.” “. Wrong.

The symptoms of pesticide overexposure mimic those of a million other things: The headache I had at work wasn’t caused by stress but by inhaling pesticides. Her son’s attention problems are created by breathing pesticides, not because he misbehaves.
You can bet all the published research is favorable to Big Chemical and will squash any reports of trouble based on its pesticides.

And I’m sorry, but the government is no better. There are many pesticides banned in Europe that are allowed for use in the United States. India, in the quest to feed its hungry poor, rejects American crops due to their heavy pesticide residue. But they are fine for American consumption. What does that tell you?

Pesticides are everywhere and it is our individual and collective job to stop the madness. Buy organic, know the hours of the pest control service at your work, school, stores, etc. Educate others about the unnecessary poisons of synthetic chemical pesticides. Because the stronger the chemical, the stronger the poison.

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