Saturday, August 27, 2011

Scary stuff - re: chemical contamination of food



I've been eating organic food on purpose for a long time. Didn't realize that conventional produce was also sprayed with defoliants.

People nitpick on things like this and try to tell you that if these chemicals weren't safe, farmers wouldn't use them or be allowed to use them. People tend to use extreme scales to decide if something is safe, such as if you get cancer or not. It's not like something makes you deathly ill or does no harm to you. Also, hardly anything gives you cancer right away...So shortsighted, willfully blind. Who would spray things like this on their meals after preparing them? Virtually no one. But as long as they don't see it, it's fine. Like it's any different.

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