Study Finds Pesticides in Kids
For those of you who haven't fully embraced the organic foods movement, please read this article on the amounts of pesticides found in children who ate conventional foods.
A yearlong study on children in Washington state were found to have "biological markers of organophosphates, the family of pesticides spawned by the creation of nerve gas agents in World War II," according to a Seattle-Post Intelligencer article.
When the same group of kids ate organic produce and juices, traces of the pesticides were gone.
I know it's extremely expensive to go all organic, but joining an organic farming co-operative helps keep the cost down and lessens the amount of pesticides your family ingests.
I belong to the Roosevelt CSA Farm. For more information, call: Tara Keegan at (609) 477-0467 or email Farmer Dave at JerseyFarmhouse@aol.com
Here's the link to the newspaper article:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/printer2/index.asp?ploc=t&refer=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/349263_pesticide30.html?source=mypi
A yearlong study on children in Washington state were found to have "biological markers of organophosphates, the family of pesticides spawned by the creation of nerve gas agents in World War II," according to a Seattle-Post Intelligencer article.
When the same group of kids ate organic produce and juices, traces of the pesticides were gone.
I know it's extremely expensive to go all organic, but joining an organic farming co-operative helps keep the cost down and lessens the amount of pesticides your family ingests.
I belong to the Roosevelt CSA Farm. For more information, call: Tara Keegan at (609) 477-0467 or email Farmer Dave at JerseyFarmhouse@aol.com
Here's the link to the newspaper article:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/printer2/index.asp?ploc=t&refer=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/349263_pesticide30.html?source=mypi
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