JonSR77
Senior Member
If folks want some professional information about this issues, you could contact the Rodale Institute. They were among the first pioneers in organic agriculture.
https://rodaleinstitute.org/
Unfortunately, in America, at least, business is extremely competitive and various business will engage all sorts of tricks and deceptions in order to increase their sales. That has not been limited to deceptive labeling practices that make ordinary products seem to be natural and organic, when they are not.
Just forces us to do a bit more research.
In 1978, I was a lab assistant for Dr. Morrison at Kean College, here in NJ. He did a pollution study in the Arthur Kill, a former Esso plant (Standard Oil became Esso, which became Exxon).
We did core sediment samples. Had to go a full six feet down to find anything living. Dr. Morrison found the highest levels of mercury ever recorded on the planet up to that time (70 ppm).
We now have about 70,000 man made chemicals in our air, water and land. Only a handful of them have even been studied to toxicity and effects.
So, any time we can reduce our interaction with chemicals...is always a wise idea.
And that not only goes for food, but creating a home with far less chemical cleaners. Breathing in all that ammonia and bleach is hardly a good idea. Especially, because the natural versions do a fine job. We only need the very very strong chemicals on rare occasions. Everything else can be handled with far safer products. We use Seventh Generation. There are other brands. I have heard that there are other brands that are better. But, you can't be perfect in an imperfect world, so we just resolve to use those.
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https://rodaleinstitute.org/
Unfortunately, in America, at least, business is extremely competitive and various business will engage all sorts of tricks and deceptions in order to increase their sales. That has not been limited to deceptive labeling practices that make ordinary products seem to be natural and organic, when they are not.
Just forces us to do a bit more research.
In 1978, I was a lab assistant for Dr. Morrison at Kean College, here in NJ. He did a pollution study in the Arthur Kill, a former Esso plant (Standard Oil became Esso, which became Exxon).
We did core sediment samples. Had to go a full six feet down to find anything living. Dr. Morrison found the highest levels of mercury ever recorded on the planet up to that time (70 ppm).
We now have about 70,000 man made chemicals in our air, water and land. Only a handful of them have even been studied to toxicity and effects.
So, any time we can reduce our interaction with chemicals...is always a wise idea.
And that not only goes for food, but creating a home with far less chemical cleaners. Breathing in all that ammonia and bleach is hardly a good idea. Especially, because the natural versions do a fine job. We only need the very very strong chemicals on rare occasions. Everything else can be handled with far safer products. We use Seventh Generation. There are other brands. I have heard that there are other brands that are better. But, you can't be perfect in an imperfect world, so we just resolve to use those.
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