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But once you have your pitchfork, what's next? Most produce contains levels of heavy metals due to soil conditions that in many cases cannot be remediated witho

But once you have your pitchfork, what's next? Most produce contains levels of heavy metals due to soil conditions that in many cases cannot be remediated without extreme expense that renders farming economically unviable, but even then, even relatively pristine soils still yield produce with eyebrow-raising levels of lead and other questionable substances. Not attempting to defend the food industry here, but I also don't really see an obviously viable path to remediating the situation.

josho 6y ago
It doesn't lesson the problem if this is to be expected from our farm practices. The title of the report says "Tainted with Dangerous Levels", so we have a problem or congress is being unnecessarily political. If nothing else it is evidence of a societal issue that has pushed mothers away from breast feeding (where presumably the human body is able to filter background levels of heavy metals) towards consumer products harvested with no evidence for quality controls.
- sithadmin 6y ago
  I don't think your claims about social attitudes towards breast feeding really map onto this discussion. The report focuses on prepared solid foods, not infant formulas. Strangely, however, the report does compare EU standards for baby formula to raw ingredients used in the preparation of the solid foods being examined. Yet another strange thing in addition to comparing contaminant levels with drinking water that doesn't pass a smell test.
pixl97 6y ago
Say thank you to the fossil fuels industry for making this problem worse. We still use lead in many aircraft fuels.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y ago
  That is for private propeller aviation mostly. While I'm no 'chemtrailer' (as in believing intentional 'spraying' for whatever reason by them), searching for 'toxicological asessment' of jet fuel A1(civil), and JP5/JP8 for the most common military ones can be disturbing, to say the least. Start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_fuel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_fuel if you want to. And from there on to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JP-8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JP-8 and learn that they use this in military diesel powered vehicles on the road, too! Yummie!

josho 6y ago

It doesn't lesson the problem if this is to be expected from our farm practices. The title of the report says "Tainted with Dangerous Levels", so we have a problem or congress is being unnecessarily political. If nothing else it is evidence of a societal issue that has pushed mothers away from breast feeding (where presumably the human body is able to filter background levels of heavy metals) towards consumer products harvested with no evidence for quality controls.

sithadmin 6y ago
I don't think your claims about social attitudes towards breast feeding really map onto this discussion. The report focuses on prepared solid foods, not infant formulas. Strangely, however, the report does compare EU standards for baby formula to raw ingredients used in the preparation of the solid foods being examined. Yet another strange thing in addition to comparing contaminant levels with drinking water that doesn't pass a smell test.

pixl97 6y ago

Say thank you to the fossil fuels industry for making this problem worse. We still use lead in many aircraft fuels.

LargoLasskhyfv 6y ago
That is for private propeller aviation mostly. While I'm no 'chemtrailer' (as in believing intentional 'spraying' for whatever reason by them), searching for 'toxicological asessment' of jet fuel A1(civil), and JP5/JP8 for the most common military ones can be disturbing, to say the least. Start with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_fuel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_fuel if you want to. And from there on to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JP-8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JP-8 and learn that they use this in military diesel powered vehicles on the road, too! Yummie!