Plastics and pesticides
both of which should be illegal. (at least banning plastics for single-use items)
More Than 90% of Americans Have Pesticides or Their Byproducts in Their Bodies
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#13Is it possible to grow enough food in your backyard to live off of (plus chickens as a yard waste disposal) if you also work full time? I can't even eat at a restaurant without knowing if they use organic produce.
Organic produce uses tons of pesticides some of which are really nasty (but hey it's "natural" copper sulfate), so that's not a solution to anything.
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#14The article doesn't mention meat and dairy as a source of surprisingly high levels pesticides and their byproducts.
[1] https://medium.com/center-for-biological-diversity/does-meat...
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#15Sola dosis facit venenum. It's not about that its there, its about how much there is. My guess is not enough to warrant the effort it took to write this article.
It's not about that its there, its about how much there is.
Yes and no. In the intentional absence of published studies on the impact on mammals of most pesticides, we're left with little to go on except presence. Yes, I do mean to imply that there are studies on potential health impacts that are privately funded and conducted by manufacturers that we will never see, much as there were studies of smoking done by tobacco companies and studies of global warming done by oil companies.
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#16I wonder if organic food is any better. I recall reading they use much more "natural" pesticides on organic produce. Is growing your own stuff in a backyard I don't have really the only way to avoid pesticides?
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank god we have you here to guess!
Yes, let us thank the anthropomorphic deity that science has a discipline called Chemistry with a subdiscipline called Toxicology where we don't have to guess about these things. All hail the LD50 and likewise the LC50 so that we no longer have to engage in blatant chemophobia.
Yeah neither of those metrics are by which we measure the effects of carcinogens and endocrine disruptors.
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#18I wonder if organic food is any better. I recall reading they use much more "natural" pesticides on organic produce. Is growing your own stuff in a backyard I don't have really the only way to avoid pesticides?
Most of what I've seen has shown that it is indeed better, although not perfect. E.g. glyphosate is detectable in organic wine, but at much lower levels (5x?) compared to regular wine.
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#19Is it possible to grow enough food in your backyard to live off of (plus chickens as a yard waste disposal) if you also work full time? I can't even eat at a restaurant without knowing if they use organic produce.
Organic produce uses tons of pesticides some of which are really nasty (but hey it's "natural" copper sulfate), so that's not a solution to anything.
Depends on the organic produce.
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#20Sola dosis facit venenum. It's not about that its there, its about how much there is. My guess is not enough to warrant the effort it took to write this article.
Yeah, everything is perfect in modern food industry nutrients and dangerous non-food crap substances-wise...