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ATTENTION
CONSUMERS
Most consumers in the USA and many farmers are unaware
that pesticides, remain active in soils and are still a
health issue many years after some pesticides were banned for sale in the
United States and other countries. Before and during the 20 century
most agricultural ground was exposed to DDT or similar pesticides at
some time and there is a long breakdown time for toxins in untreated
soil – around 80 years. Even yet today, DDT and its
metabolites turn up in a large percentage of breast milk samples.
Cancer, neurological abnormalities, stillbirths, decreased
fertility, liver damage, and impaired immune function are all linked
to DDT.
These
persistent pesticides, such as DDT, continue
to be released into our environment, sometimes
accidentally by producers, or transported by
weather, and may arrive in produce from other
regions which have little if any restriction on the
use of these pesticides.
Now
the Good News,... biodynamic ag methods provide
gardeners and farmers a safe, inexpensive, sustainable method to
reduce pesticide concentration in soils and help to prevent the
uptake in crops of biologically harmful pesticides.
Even
better news! You can get connected with a local biodynamic
farmer, a "Natures' Way Farm" in your area and eat
healthier safer foods.
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