| The soil organic foods are grown in is richer, containing no herbicides or pesticides to destroy or dissolve the natural nutrients in the plants and the fruits. On the other hand, regular crops are contaminated with pesticides, other chemicals, and irradiation, and undergo genetic modification. Organic foods are exposed to fewer nitrates and other harmful residues. sf Organic foods are healthier for children in their growth years. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 Avoid collecting plants within 50 feet of a busy road, in areas that are sprayed with herbicides or pesticides, or in areas known to be polluted or contaminated. Ask permission before gathering on private land.
Any known endangered species must be left alone; do not harvest it from the wild. With any species, identify the grandfather/mother plant in a stand of plants—it's usually the largest or the first to flower— and leave it to ensure the continuation of the strongest of the species. Never take more than 10 percent of what's there. Vary the places you collect from. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 FDA (meaning safe for use in foods); governments continue to use taxpayer dollars to subsidize the growing of genetically engineered corn (coated with Monsanto herbicides, by the way); and the FDA continues to insist that the U.S. public has no right to know which foods are genetically engineered because it might "confuse them."
That's how the U.S. government views the average American these days -- as a stupid, misinformed "feeder and breeder" who has no capacity to read labels or make informed decisions about what's in their food. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Environmental estrogen, or xenoestrogen (pronounced "ZEE-no-estrogen"), can be found in pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, plastics, fuels, car exhausts, dry cleaning chemicals, industrial waste, and meat from animals that have been fed estrogenic drugs to fatten them. It is also found in the synthetic estrogen and progesterone (chemically termed progestin) of birth control pills and hormone therapies; these synthetic hormones are secreted in women's urine, are flushed down the toilet, and eventually make their way back into the food chain. |
Marshall Editions
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 Eating organic food helps to reduce your exposure to pesticides, herbicides, and
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_l o_ o o hormones. Avoid sugar, dairy products, refined foods, fried foods, junk foods, alcohol, and caffeine. These foods wreak havoc on hormones that affect the prostate and increase inflammation. Use an elimination diet to determine whether you have any food sensitivities. Cut out a common allergen, such as wheat, dairy, corn, oranges, and soy, for three weeks and then reintroduce it at the end of the third week to see if any changes occur. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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| Throw away all pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides. Never tent your house and fumigate it with pesticides. Research and use organic approaches and products for home gardening and pest control. |
Michael F. Jacobson, Ph.D., Lisa Y. Lefferts and Anne Witte Garland
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| In fact, major efforts are under way to create plant strains that are resistant not to pests, but to the harmful effects of herbicides, so that the herbicides can be used on a broader variety of crops. A concern is that once these genetically-engineered crops are in widespread use, not only might more herbicides be used, but herbicide-tolerant genes could spread, and ultimately result in the need to develop and use more herbicides to control herbicide-resistant weeds. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Fruits and vegetables are doused with fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides. Thousands of chemicals are routinely added to canned and processed foods to improve taste and extend shelf life. Livestock are regularly injected with growth hormones to increase salable flesh yields and massive amounts of antibiotics to stave off diseases before slaughter and eventual serving on our dinner tables.
Sadly, shockingly, our toxic exposure doesn't end there. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Dioxin is also produced through the industrial manufacturing of bleached fibers for paper and textiles, in the production of wood preservatives, chlorinated pesticides and herbicides, and in the manufacturing process of virtually every type of plastic and bleached or resin-coated food packaging that you can find lining the aisles of your neighborhood supermarket. We each receive some small, additional daily dose of dioxin through our steady diet of seafood, meat, and dairy. |
Patrick Holford
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 Guess who profits from the increased sales of the herbicides and the GM seeds?
The biotechnology industry asserts that GM technology will reduce the use of herbicides on crops, yet analyses of the U.S. agricultural industry show that the use of herbicides has actually increased significantly since GM planting started in 1996. Although herbicide use decreased slightly in the first three years of GM crop growing, use increased subsequently. During 2002 and 2003 in the United States, an average of 29 percent more herbicide was applied per acre on GM herbicide-tolerant corn than on non-GM corn. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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| Hundreds of other pesticides and insecticides remain in regular use, including herbicides such as atrazine (which Becky's lawn company sprays on her yard), and termiticides (which the local pest-control company uses to liberally spray the foundation, cracks, and crevices of Becky's house every year). For the dog, there is tick and flea killer: more pesticides. |
Mark Sircus
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 Scott Whitaker, in his book MediSin, tells us how unfortunate it is that the modern day farmer has been persuaded to use monoculture, artificial fertilization, pesticides, and herbicides. "The end result of our domestic food production has been 'quantity' rather than 'quality'. The human body can thrive on fruits and vegetables that are grown on vital rich soil but not on soil that is artificially pumped up with chemicals." Thus today hardly anyone can eat enough fruits and vegetables to supply his or her body with the mineral salts required for good health. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Glyphosate and glyphosate-con-taining herbicides caused genetic damage in laboratory tests with human cells, as well as in tests with laboratory animals. ... Exposure is linked with increased risks of the cancer non-Hodgkin's lymphoma,37 miscarriages, and attention deficit disorder," 38 as well as Parkinson's disease.39
Exposure to mouse testicular cells (Leydig cells) resulted in a 94% reduction in sex hormone production. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| The bulk of the 90 nutrients essential to human health have been depleted from the soil by fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, irrigation, acid rain and other factors. Then during food processing up to two-thirds of vitamin and mineral levels in most foods are eliminated. To make matters worse, when food processors claim to fortify these foods by adding vitamins and minerals, they are inserting chemicals that imitate, not really replace, the natural nutrients found in food. These are poor imitations that may do more harm than good. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Its unique technology even removes pesticides and herbicides from the water and leaves your drinking, shower, and pool water as fresh and clean as pure mountain water.
The H20 Concept 2000 uses electrical impulses to break calcium bicarbonate and magnesium bicarbonate, salts that are the major causes of hard water, into calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate, with the byproduct being carbon dioxide (C02). The C02 is dispelled at the faucet in minuscule amounts. Calcium carbonate and magnesium carbonate are the soluble forms of these two minerals. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Chemicals that mimic the female hormone estrogen come from herbicides, fungicides, and pesticides that find their way to bodies of water. These then get incorporated into the biosystem that eventually becomes our water and food supplies. If these chemicals cause serious reproductive abnormalities and potential extinction in wildlife, what do they do to us?
In 2002, the first nationwide study of man-made chemicals and hormones in 139 streams revealed that 80 percent of streams tested were contaminated. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Where traditional farmers apply pesticides, she counts on natural predators and aromatic repellents to keep the pests away; where traditional farmers apply herbicides to rid their fields of weeds, Krause and a crew do the weeding. It is a lot of work—all of which, suddenly, meant nothing in the cool calculus of the marketplace. From no fault of her own, the premium price she was accustomed to receiving for her organic seeds dropped from $3.50 a bushel to $1.75. No one compensated Krause for her losses. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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| Pesticides and herbicides are the smallest among prominent contaminants, requiring filters that can catch impurities at the submicron level. The approximate size of bacteria is about 0.5 microns, whereas a pesticide chemical is only 0.001 microns. This means it's imperative that whichever filter you choose, it can handle toxins at the submicron level. Otherwise, contaminants will just pass through.
One rule of thumb is to look for filters labeled as meeting NSF/ANSI Standard 53 that are certified to remove the contaminant(s) of concern in your water. |
| The Toxic Hit List drugs heavy elements and metals household chemicals and solvents infections herbicides and pesticides alcohol air pollution tobacco water pollution caffeine
A great deal of environmental damage was done before we began monitoring and attempting to control pollution. But even though we acknowledged a growing problem, we have not yet found a way to eliminate the release of so many toxins. Current technology can only reduce them. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) periodically releases a report called the Toxics Release Inventory. |
| In addition, traces of herbicides and pharmaceutical drugs may also be present. Tap water is not as clean as the government would like us to think. (I'll explain how drugs get into your tap water a bit later.)
Depending on the type of soap and shampoo you use, you expose yourself to coloring agents, dyes, artificial preservatives, and propylene glycol, a lubricant and suspected carcinogen. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| What they don't tell you is that these GM foods contain pesticides and their use encourages the massive dumping of herbicides on croplands by farmers. Those synthetic chemicals wash right off the farms and into the aquatic ecosystems (rivers, wetlands, oceans) where they are creating "dead zones" that can't even support aquatic life.
It's all being done for the sake of the almighty dollar. Corporations (and the governments they control) are sacrificing the very future of human civilization in order to boost next quarter's profits. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The Dow Chemical Company pays Professor Kligman $10,000 to learn how dioxin -- a highly toxic, carcinogenic component of Agent Orange -- and other herbicides affect human skin because workers at the chemical plant have been developing an acne-like condition called Chloracne and the company would like to know whether the chemicals they are handling are to blame. As part of the study, Professor Kligman applies roughly the amount of dioxin Dow employees are exposed to on the skin 60 prisoners, and is disappointed when the prisoners show no symptoms of Chloracne. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 He claims there is "no link between our tiny little study and the CCD phenomenon…If the Americans are looking for an explanation for colony collapse disorder, perhaps they should look at herbicides, pesticides and they should especially think about genetically modified crops.
"Ever since The Independent wrote their article, for which they never called or wrote to us, none of us have been able to do any of our work because all our time has been spent in phone calls and e-mails trying to set things straight. This is a horror story for every researcher to have your study reduced to this. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Nor is there any requirement to disclose which foods were grown with pesticides, herbicides or other chemicals banned in the United States (and U.K.) but still legal in other places like Central and South America.
If that last sentence surprises you, it should: not one in a hundred American consumers is aware that it is perfectly legal for U.S. chemical companies to export dangerous chemical pesticides (like DDT) that have been banned for use on crops in the United States. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Depending on who you talk to, this collapse of the global food supply could be caused by the end of peak oil, a collapse of bioversity followed by widespread crop blight, the depletion of freshwater tables, radical weather patterns caused by global warming, or the widespread disruption of global ecosystems through the continued use of synthetic chemicals (pesticides, herbicides, pharmaceuticals, etc.)
Each of these explanations sounds like bad news to me. Any one of them could conceivably pose a major threat to the future of our global food supply. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Add to this toxic stew all the insecticides, pesticides, and herbicides that we ingest daily.
"The late Dr. Henry (Hank) Newbold demonstrated that many of his schizophrenic psychiatric patients were suffering from a vitamin B12 'dependency' and that they needed large amounts in order to feel well and sane again. Then as the years went by, orthomolecular doctors discovered that the essential minerals—macro minerals such as calcium and magnesium, as well as the trace mineral elements zinc, manganese, chromium, and selenium—also helped balance the cerebral chemistry of schizophrenics. Dr. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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| In addition, well water can also be checked for herbicides and pesticides if you live in an agricultural area. You may also choose to have tests performed for radon or arsenic, especially if these contaminants are a common problem in groundwater in your region.
Finding the Right Filter
Filters can be configured in many ways, and they have varying types of mechanical and chemical reduction capabilities. Although some are designed to filter water for the whole house, a majority of the systems on the market today are designed to treat water coming from a single faucet. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 These molecules are produced in the body by natural biological processes, and can be accelerated by external agents such as infections, tobacco smoke, toxins, herbicides, radiation from the sun, or pollutants. Free radicals can damage proteins by altering their chemical structure and DNA and potentially causing mutations.
Essentially, when molecules split as a result of bodily metabolism—a natural process by which chemicals in our body are created and destroyed?free radicals are born and react quickly with other nearby compounds to try to regain stability. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 If our water is polluted, meaning that what is entering our body is polluted with a set of negative frequencies, such as pesticides and herbicides, the water can't effectively relay accurate intracellular and extracellular information. If we are consuming water that is contaminated, it not only brings in poisons but it blocks adequate frequency information extracellularly and intracellularly to and from the DNA.
Water, acting as the solvent, has an electrical and mineral content that helps to regulate all the functions in the body. |
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