Food For Thought Supermarket Strawberries Supermarket strawberries have the highest levels of pesticides compared with other fruit in Australia. Although these levels are regarded as being within ‘acceptable’ levels by health authorities, they ignore the multiplier effects of a cocktail of pesticide applications. In Choice Australia’s survey only 22% of growers had fruit with only 1 pesticide, while 63% of growers had multiple residues and 15% had a cocktail of 4 or more. Choice detected 150 different pesticides from 27 growers. (Note: 100% of all strawberries tested had pesticides in them) The so called ‘acceptable’ limits are based on the amount of pesticides consumed compared to the body weight of an average person. There are no warnings for children. Some of the pesticides used are systemic, which means they enter the sap stream and can’t be washed off, turning the strawberry fruit into pesticide bombs. If your child is say one fifth of your body weight then the amount of pesticide consumed is 5 times as concentrated. If the strawberry your child is eating is one of those stacked with 4 pesticides, then you may be feeding your child with a dosage level of 20 times over what our authorities say is safe! The Modern Strawberry Farm Huge shouldered unripe strawberries have replaced delicious, aromatic intensely flavoured strawberries. They may look the same but they are pumped so full of fertilisers and pesticides that they are a health hazard to your children. The modern strawberry farm is the epitome of all that is wrong with modern horticulture. Highly fertile soils are heavily tilled and fumigated to destroy all living soil microbes. Plastic sheeting prevents the natural exchange of gases with the atmosphere. Unregulated pesticide and fungicide sprays are applied to this biologically dead soil to provide those ‘fruits of deception’ to long distant supermarkets. The article above is by Clive Blazley from Diggers Club, Australia. Kind Regards, Ray Simpson
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 04:46:08 +0000
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