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 wouldn’t dream of harming the public for their own profit and profit, would they? Certainly the responsible government agencies are in place making sure they don’t poison us, right? Maybe?
Well, no, no and no.
The incidence of pesticides in our daily lives may not be that bad individually … (keyword here) … but collectively it is mind-boggling. Your food sources may not be so bad: choose organic foods, avoid processed foods, and eat fresh foods instead of foods loaded with preservatives. Thank 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, supermarket, mall, etc.) is religiously sprayed with pesticidal chemicals that are odorless and colorless, so you are breathing in poisons every day and you don’t even know it.
And most of these pesticides are synthetic, which means they don’t exist in nature. And what questions? Well, just a minor issue in this regard because synthetic substances cannot be processed by the human body. Once we inhale, absorb, or ingest them, they are forever trapped in our bodies. Nice.
When considering corporate profits from hazardous pesticides, individual exposures are not of great 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 repellent, ant killer, etc.) are “perfectly safe. “. Wrong.
Overexposure to pesticide symptoms mimics those of a million other things: The headache I had at work was not caused by stress but by inhaling pesticides. Your child’s attention problems are created by breathing pesticides, not by misbehaving.
You can bet all the published research is favorable to Big Chemical and will squash any reports of trouble based on their pesticides.
And I’m sorry, but the government is no better. There are many pesticides banned in Europe that are allowed to be used in the United States. India, in its quest to feed its starving poor, rejects American crops because of their heavy pesticide residues. 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 pest control service hours at your work, school, stores, etc. Educate others about the unnecessary poisons that synthetic chemical pesticides represent. Because the stronger the chemical, the stronger the poison.
