"Malcolm" wrote in message
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On Thu, 15 May 2003 16:24:05 GMT, "Michelle Fulton"
wrote:


"Malcolm" wrote in message
news:f3cdf9dde3cec80908c88c978bc18fd8@TeraNews. ..

That's naive in the least. So you think the sprayer should be masked
and protected up to the hilt when spraying it, yet cannot see the
effect of those toxins once it has been sprayed, some of which stay
around for a year or more?

Probably a bit of naivety involved, but I think there is more danger
inhaling the stuff, and I'm not really sure how much of it ends up on my
dinner plate, what with rain, factory washing, me washing and the plant
enzymes destroying it.....

That's great, you know the facts, and you base your decision on that.

This is all we ask, the chance for us all to do the same. We are being
pumped full of this junk, which big business claims is safe, don't
worry, yet many of us do have genuine concerns.


You miss the point, 'organic' plants are also full of insecticides and
fungicides, naturally evolved to be super efficient at such stuff as
mimicking animal hormones, (see the recent news on soy milk, killing insects
etc.
When a random sample of around 50 of these chemicals was tested to the same
standards as man-made pesticides, 50% of them were found to be toxic, in
fact *much more* toxic than would be allowed for man-made chemicals. Thus
the man made pesticides about which you complain are less toxic than half
these naturally ocurring chemicals. You complain about 'junk' when you refer
to man-made chemicals that have undergone rigorous testing, yet you eat
plants full of hundreds of untested, probably more dangerous chemicals, with
no worries.

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