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One More Reason to Go Organic
By Annie B. Bond
Just in case you need any more reasons to eschew chemically treated produce in favor of the organically grown, we’ve got one more for you!
Potatoes, pecans, and sugar beet crops are commonly treated with
a fungicide that tests show not only renders immune system killer
cells helpless, but they never recovered and became weaker over
time. The research was conducted at Tennessee State University and
presented at the meeting of the American
Chemical Society.
When natural immune system killer cells were exposed to the fungicide Triphenyltin (TPT), laboratory tests show that within one hour the cells have a reduced ability to fight tumors by 50 to 60 percent, and after six days that power diminished to 84 percent. It is not known if these laboratory results are applicable to animals and humans, but more tests are recommended. The researchers also want to look into whether TPT can have a cumulative effect on the body.
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add your comment »All our food world wide was once organic, and that was not many decades ago. So why do so many people now think organic is an expensive gimmick?
It does not take a scientist to show us that plastering our soil, food and animals with chemicals, is going to have an affect on every living organism that eats them. That is common sense, surely?
It works like this, we double, triple or more the impact, when we pour chemical fertilizers onto our soil. Then grow crops to feed our animals on that soil, which we then spray with herbicides and insecticides. Then we feed these crops to our farm animals, and we pump them full of growth hormones and antibiotics before we decide to eat them!
Even if you don't eat meat or fish like I don't, you are still getting a lot of these chemicals from any food that isn't grown organically. What has amazed me is why on earth it has taken supposedly intelligent humans this long to make the connection. There is a direct connection between the dreadful chemicals we foul up the soil, our plants and our animals with, and the huge increase in diseases like cancer, since we started doing this!
Why is the human race so thick. The reason is we have stopped thinking about what we buy and consume, and just think about how quickly we can buy it, cook it, and eat it. Fast, fast, fast is the name of the game, and just look where that has got us.
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your articles are very good but short, please elaborate. thanks.
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Yes, everyone has long made fun of the hippies and now it turns out they have been right all along. Peace!
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There is some much growing evidence accumulating over the benefits of organic farming! More vitamins and anti-oxidants, plants more resistant to pests and disease. Here's a link to one article from NRDC about research that shows organically grown plants are more resistant to pest that was done at the University of Ohio:
http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/06spr/frontlines.asp
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There is some much growing evidence accumulating over the benefits of organic farming! More vitamins and anti-oxidants, plants more resistant to pests and disease. Here's a link to one article from NRDC about research that shows organically grown plants are more resistant to pest that was done at the University of Ohio:
http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/06spr/frontlines.asp
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Yikes! Sounds like they should have presented this research at another ACS...the American Cancer Society! Thanks for sharing...
Lynn from organicmania.com
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