one more reason to eat organic...

[merchimerch]

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/nation/epaper/2005/07/14/m1a_peststudy_0714.html

"In a benchmark study released today, researchers found an average of 200 industrial compounds, pollutants and other chemicals in the umbilical cord blood of newborns, including seven dangerous pesticides — some banned in the United States more than 30 years ago.

The report, Body Burden — The Pollution in Newborns, by the Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Working Group, detected 287 chemicals in the umbilical cord blood of 10 newborns. Of those chemicals, 76 cause cancer in humans or animals, 94 are toxic to the brain and nervous system and 79 cause birth defects or abnormal development in animal tests."

This is completely scary - what are we doing to ourselves just so we can have pretty looking produce in our aisles and tomatoes in December?

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[merchimerch.livejournal.com]

the .gov makes me suspicious of the statistics, but that is the paranoid Sovietologist side of me coming out ;)

Maybe what I read was talking about a specific demographic, like lower income or minority infant mortality.

Regardless, you came up with the stats so you can win (though I'd trust NGO numbers more)