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Video: CNN –Dr. San­jay Gupta on pes­ti­cides in produce.

Do you really need to wait for a study to be done or for the gov­ern­ment to tell you that con­sum­ing pes­ti­cides is a bad thing? If you wouldn’t spray a can of Raid into your mouth, don’t eat some­thing that has been soaked in it please.

In the video Dr. Gupta failed to note any­thing about GMO and in par­tic­u­lar the GMO corn he noted as being one of his favorites. That said, this was  main­stream news media and I don’t expect them to tackle some­thing so big or scary as Mon­santo. If noth­ing else  Dr. Gupta’s clout will sim­ply help to fur­ther aware­ness about organ­ics and that is a good thing.

If you are read­ing this you likely already know that “con­ven­tion­ally grown” pro­duce is not good a thing because pes­ti­cides and chem­i­cals in and on the food you eat is bad. (click here if you are not sure if you have been eat­ing con­ven­tional, GMO, or organic) I am amazed that so many peo­ple still choose to ignore this, espe­cially when they go to the gro­cery store. To be fair, I too once let the pretty arrange­ments of pro­duce  intox­i­cate my senses when shop­ping.  All that  unnat­u­rally pretty, oddly col­or­ful,  and uni­formly shaped pro­duce looks appeal­ing. This com­bined with a naive sense of faith in “the pow­ers that be”  also helped me to ignore the obvi­ous. If I ever did let my mind wan­der to images of rat poi­son and the like, I quickly dis­missed those unpleas­ant thoughts. It was eas­ier to believe that that the gov­ern­ment (and even their gro­cer) had my back on this issue. They wouldn’t allow  any­thing on the food that wasn’t well tested and safe for my fam­ily and I to eat right? This is eas­ier to  believe because if you choose not to, you will be forced to ques­tion other things. That is unset­tling for many peo­ple and a lot of work too. con­tinue reading…

A friend sent this link to me about a 14 year study demon­strat­ing  a link to pan­cre­atic can­cer and soft drinks. While it would be easy for me to jump on the band­wagon as an ex-soft drink junkie (we are the worst), and it would be easy for me to say “I told you so!” I can­not in good con­scious do that here.

D0 soft drinks cause pan­cre­atic cancer?

While the data seems pretty con­vinc­ing, the study also sites four other stud­ies done pre­vi­ously that did not show a link. The per­cent­ages also seem oddly high to me, enough that it makes me ques­tion the data and its accu­racy. con­tinue reading…

This one I could not resist. This is a sta­tion in my local view­ing area too. It is truly fright­en­ing. Every­one needs to know about Mon­santo and their reach of influence.