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New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer
NY Times ^
| May 6, 2010
| NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Posted on 05/09/2010 5:50:48 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: marsh2
They should have checked with Agricultural people. It is a simple fact that the overall yields are less with organic foods. That is why they cost more. You cannot feed our current population purely on organic foods. Modern chemistry, mechanization and genetics have allowed us to increase yields to meet population demands. We would be back producing at 1900 levels without the progress we have made in these areas. Cant go back.Of course we can go back. What are a few million starvation deaths when we're talking about a potential handful of deaths caused by eeevillll chemicals? < /end liberal thinking >
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posted on
05/09/2010 8:31:22 PM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
To: neverdem
I just want them to take DDT off of the banned list. Maybe we can save a few million lives here and there.
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posted on
05/09/2010 8:36:36 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
(We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
To: ModelBreaker
The idea that they’d want to cook up an excuse to do just that is absolutely amazing.
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posted on
05/09/2010 8:58:16 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: editor-surveyor
Our bodies cannot synthesize nucleic acids from raw isolated compounds; we make our nucleic acid from the existing nucleotides in our food. If we ingest things that are not once living, we must destroy some of our own cells to deal with those substances. In most cases those destroyed cells are in our kidneys, where the non-life garbage must go to be dumped. I'm not sure I get your claim about non-living things. Salt, zinc and a host of other, necessary, minerals were never alive. Are you saying that eating them is killing us? Many synthetic compounds are identical to their naturally occurring counterparts. How can our body tell a synthetic molecule from a "natural" one if the molecules are identical?
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posted on
05/09/2010 9:10:54 PM PDT
by
freedom_forge
(http://libertyphysics.wordpress.com/)
To: freedom_forge
The only way we can utilize any metal is through ingesting a plant that is capable of absorbing and using it in their cellular structure.
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“How can our body tell a synthetic molecule from a “natural” one if the molecules are identical?”
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They’re not “identical,” they are included in the cellular structuer of another once living substance, as a much more complex molecule.
The reason for eating vegetation is to absorb the necessary nutrients through their cellular structure.
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posted on
05/09/2010 9:27:43 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
To: El Gato; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Robert A. Cook, PE; lepton; LadyDoc; jb6; tiamat; PGalt; Dianna; ...
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posted on
05/09/2010 10:13:15 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: neverdem
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posted on
05/09/2010 10:15:15 PM PDT
by
Chaguito
To: Chaguito
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posted on
05/09/2010 10:17:36 PM PDT
by
Chaguito
To: HiTech RedNeck
“The idea that theyd want to cook up an excuse to do just that is absolutely amazing.”
Sorry. Can’t imagine what I was thinking.
To: neverdem
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posted on
05/09/2010 11:24:21 PM PDT
by
hocndoc
(http://www.LifeEthics.org (I've got a mustard seed and I'm not afraid to use it.) (RIA)
To: editor-surveyor
You’re disseminating Junk science. NaCl is NaCl.
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posted on
05/09/2010 11:27:28 PM PDT
by
hocndoc
(http://www.LifeEthics.org (I've got a mustard seed and I'm not afraid to use it.) (RIA)
To: neverdem
These idiots would rather the world starve than use chemicals to enhance crop yields.
DDT
They’ll take some remote possibility and in trying to restrict it cause real harm to real people because they are clueless about the wider consequences.
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posted on
05/10/2010 12:21:20 AM PDT
by
DB
To: editor-surveyor
Prescription drugs are all un-natural and deadly, and putting them down your gullet is a form of eating.
Not all, some are natural, most are refined or imitated natural substances.
But yes, most medicines are poisons, hopefully to kill the disease before it kills you or carefully tuned to counteract the symptoms of your illness and bring you closer to "normal".
That's why taking a double dose does not make you feel twice as good, it could hurt you.
If you prefer not to take 'artificial' medicines, I'm not forcing you.
If you want to stay away from "chemicals" (and by that I take it you mean man-made) in your food, feel free to buy "organic".
Never mind that labs say they can't really tell the difference between organic and regular.
Never mind that without fertilizers, pesticides and preservatives, growing, transporting and storing food in the quantities we need would be much harder and actually less safe.
I am all for releasing information about what we eat so we can make our own decisions, but I do not want government bureaucrats banning one thing after another until all we can buy legally is gov't-grown oatmeal porridge with no flavoring.
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posted on
05/10/2010 4:40:51 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: BitWielder1
I am all for releasing information about what we eat so we can make our own decisions, but I do not want government bureaucrats banning one thing after another until all we can buy legally is gov't-grown oatmeal porridge with no flavoring.
Does that mean you're against them banning supplements too, like Vitamin C, Magnesium and all of these things, cause that is thier main goal now, already two bills this year in congress attempting to do so, one by the Republican party.
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posted on
05/10/2010 4:45:14 AM PDT
by
Scythian
To: Scythian
Correct. I'm against banning supplements, be it vitamins or herbal.
Release recommendations and pro-con-cost studies and let people make their own call.
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posted on
05/10/2010 4:51:23 AM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: Tax-chick
We can reduce cancer risk by dying earlier. Cancer has been and continues to be a disease of aging.
Remember when people point to increasing cancer rates, they are primarily pointing at improved treatment of cardiovascular disease and infectious disease.
To: neverdem
morons can barely run ef’n Homeland Security...can’t keep people on the other side of the fence on the Southern Border....what makes anybody think they can make a molecule do what they want it to?!!!!!
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posted on
05/10/2010 5:28:04 AM PDT
by
mo
To: !1776!
Even if you have a real risk of 1/1,000,000 how do you ever sort that out when the background rate is 300,000/1,000,000?
Do you ban a substance that may save lives such as clorinated water. A small amount of organochlorines is produced which may produce a 1/1,000,000 lifetime risk of cancer but has saved millions of lives since its introduction?
It is really a shame that epidemiology is not tought to the vast majority of students.
To: dangerdoc
Do you ban a substance that may save lives DDT.
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posted on
05/10/2010 5:31:18 AM PDT
by
ColdWater
("The theory of evolution really has no bearing on what I'm trying to accomplish with FR anyway. ")
To: dangerdoc
We can reduce cancer risk by dying earlier. Cancer has been and continues to be a disease of aging.Yes, I was explaining that to my kids yesterday, when we learned a friend had surgery for "Stage 0" breast cancer. "Why did she get breast cancer?" "Because she didn't die from something else when she was younger!"
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posted on
05/10/2010 5:33:42 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
("Amateurish," agreed Janet Napolitano, the White House amateurishness czar.)
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