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RE: Two Commonly Used Pesticides May Be Interfering With Melatonin And Causing Disease

in #health • 8 years ago

Cool. Yes I think Carbofuran is banned for human food production in most places but is apparently still used in some places like Mexico. I think the main problem is that with modern grocery shopping our food comes from so many sources we could still inadvertently be exposed.

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    Yep Carbofuran is (at least as I was reading) really nasty stuff. There really don't seem to be any good pesticides, so I am not sure what large growers are supposed to do to keep food production high enough.

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    Yep Carbofuran is (at least as I was reading) really nasty stuff.

    Yes I think some people were seriously disabled and killed due to exposure. Seem to remember reading about it when researching cholinesterase poising some time back.

    There really don't seem to be any good pesticides, so I am not sure what large growers are supposed to do to keep food production high enough.

    Well GM crops would be the alternative but they don't have good press. Natural pest control (using predators like ladybirds can help too) but I'm not sure how effective they are on an industrial scale. Nothing in nature comes for free I suppose!