Dear Subscriber,
I have bad news for you today. New research is showing that most non-organic food is contaminated with agricultural poisons.
Environmental Working Group regularly releases information on the “dirty dozen” and the clean fifteen.
From EWG:
1. Strawberries
2. Spinach.
3. Kale, collard and mustard greens.
4. Grapes.
5. Peaches.
6. Pears.
7. Nectarines.
8. Apples.
9. Bell and hot peppers.
10. Cherries.
11. Blueberries.
12. Green beans.
The four fungicides were found on the fruits and vegetables for which new data was available this year — blueberries, green beans, peaches and pears — for some of them at high levels.
“One reason we might see fungicides in high concentrations compared to other types of pesticides are that fungicides are often sprayed on the produce later in the process,” Friedman said.
Farmers frequently apply fungicides after harvest to protect crops from mildew or mold on the way to the grocery store.
Beyond fungicides, testing also turned up the neonicotinoids acetamiprid and imidacloprid, which harm bees and other pollinators and have been associated with damage to the development of children’s nervous systems.
Testing also revealed the pyrethroid insecticides cypermethrin and bifenthrin. While there are fewer studies on these pesticides, existing research suggests they may also harm children’s brains.
More than 1 in 10 pear samples tested positive for diphenylamine, which is currently banned in the European Union over cancer concerns.
Most of the pesticides detected in the Dirty Dozen are legal, but one exception is acephate, an organophosphate insecticide that is essentially prohibited for use on green beans but is still found on them.
One sample tested positive for levels 500 times the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) legal limit.
EWG found that nearly 75% of non-organic fruits and vegetables tested were contaminated with pesticides.
However, nearly 65% of the conventional items on the Clean Fifteen list were pesticide-free. This year’s Clean Fifteen are:
1. Sweet corn.
2. Avocados.
3. Pineapple.
4. Onions.
5. Papaya.
6. Sweet peas.
7. Asparagus.
8. Honeydew melon.
9. Kiwi.
10. Cabbage.
11. Watermelon.
12. Mushrooms.
13. Mango.
14. Sweet potatoes.
15. Carrots.
Rowen note: If you eat sweet corn, please be certain it is not Monsanto GMO Frankenfood. I am not sure here if the corn tested was GMO or not.
At the same time, we have new reports that microplastics are in most all protein source foods, whether plant or animal and seafood based. Plastic wrapping and food containers may be poisoning all of us. As I have mentioned repeatedly, I strongly believe there is a direct link to what I have posted above regarding agricultural chemicals and plastic chemicals to the crisis we see in sexual dysphoria in our young. All of us are being showered with hormone disruptor chemicals. Adults will be more resistant than developing brains in the womb. But we are affected as well, with cancers, ED, prostate issues and more.
Please buy organic, though there is no guarantee that food is without some spill over contamination. Know your grower. Try to buy at farmer’s markets where you get to know a trusted chemical free grower. Never eat of the dirty dozen unless you know the produce is organic.
To Your Excellent Health,
Robert Jay Rowen, MD
PS I am better, but not out of the woods. I am not in agony 24/7 at least.
I’ll give you a full report soon. Thank you all for your well wishes and prayers. I was stunned by sheer scores of well-wishers and also some very good ideas from many colleagues and readers, many ideas of which I had already tried. No one thing works all the time, nor for everyone.
Papaya is one of the clean 15, but I believe that unless it's organic papaya that it's 100% GMO.
As I was looking at a man the other day who looked quite "unmanly" shall I say? a light bulb went on in my head that perhaps it's the disposable diapers that have gender benders in them. I remember my mom talking about the invention of disposable diapers when she had her last kids, who were twins. She decided to stick with what she knew, even though it was much less convenient, because she didn't trust disposable diapers in 1969. She just put her other kids to work folding the diapers to cut down on her work.
I can't understand people who buy inorganic produce and then are surprised when they get cancer.
American Taxpayers have an ungodly amount of their income deducted to support USA agencies that are there to protect us from exactly what you are telling us. So, WTF are they doing?