Category: Toxins
The facts about chemicals, pesticides, and clean water.
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How a courageous woman took on the chemical industry and raised important questions about humankind’s impact on nature.
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, which in 1962 exposed the hazards of the pesticide DDT, eloquently questioned humanity’s faith in technological progress and helped set the stage for the environmental movement. Carson, a renowned nature author and a former marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, or FWS, was uniquely equipped to create so…
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Five Ways to Reduce Your Exposure to Toxins in Food
Food may go through a lot on its journey to your plate, sometimes in ways that are not beneficial to your health. Some things may occur before food is even planted or harvested. For example, crops can be treated with pesticides and fertilizers or transformed through hybridization or genetic engineering. And then there are toxic…
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The Problem with Pesticides
Pesticides Pesticides are the only toxic substances released intentionally into our environment to kill living things. This includes substances that kill weeds (herbicides), insects (insecticides), fungus (fungicides), rodents (rodenticides), and others. The use of toxic pesticides to manage pest problems has become a common practice around the world. Pesticides are used almost everywhere — not…
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Action Alert: Tell the EPA “NO” more 2,4-D and glyphosate
ACTION ALERT! Add your name to the petition here. Excerpt of the proposal from the Center for Food Safety: The EPA is proposing a dramatic expansion of the use of the toxic pesticide Enlist Duo. Enlist Duo is a mixture of glyphosate (the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup®) and the even more toxic 2,4-D (part…
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Tree-killing herbicide pulled from market
Dupont’s new systemic herbicides, designed to keep turf grass free of troublesome weeds, seem to pose little direct danger to human health. But it turns out they do kill trees. After receiving more than 7,000 reports of damaged or killed trees in states throughout the midwest, last week EPA ordered Dupont to immediately “halt the…
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CBS Miami: WHO ends Zika public health emergency | Health Nut News
November 18, 2016 the World Health Organization QUIETLY announced that Zika was no longer a global health emergency, instead acknowledging that Zika is here to stay (as it has been for decades). Since spring, the infection has been linked to severe birth defects (including microcephaly) in almost 30 countries. However, they still feel that complications…