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In reply to the discussion: This Family Ate Only Organic For Two Weeks - Watch What Happened [View all]arikara
(5,562 posts)6. Maybe they don't persist in the body
but if you keep eating them they are replenished so they are always there. Have long term effects been blind studied and peer reviewed? And who decided the effective values, was that blind studied and peer reviewed? Were studies done on infants, children, the elderly, women and men? or just on a few men like so many of them.
What organic pesticides are you talking about? I pull the weeds, and use ladybugs in my garden there are no residues from that. The local farmers around here do the same.
Anyhow go ahead, if you don't mind eating food laden with pesticide residues then by all means do so. Some of us prefer real food unadulterated by monsanto's potions and there is nothing wrong with that.
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...to point out how a non-peer reviewed and biased "study" amounts to a hill of beans?
Major Nikon
May 2015
#3
It's described as a pilot study and limitations are discussed in the study's report.
Gormy Cuss
May 2015
#5
You just articulated what would be measured. Whether the measured change is significant or
Gormy Cuss
May 2015
#16
Which would make any hypothetically larger study no more valuable than this one
Major Nikon
May 2015
#17
The testing and video was asking the family: Do you want so many pesticides in your bodies?
vkkv
May 2015
#33
The same ones who shill for Monsanto are the same ones who shill for NSA, drones, militarized police
whereisjustice
May 2015
#14
That "normal" level of pesticide chemicals in our blood or urine would be...
bearssoapbox
May 2015
#23
thank you for all this. some of the responses here were. . .interesting, to say the least.
niyad
May 2015
#34
All the same responses ad nauseum. All I say is label the food...I want to KNOW. I just want to
mother earth
May 2015
#46