When the English colonized the Atlantic seaboard, one of the first things the settlers did was look for and mine lead. They'd melt them down to make these:
for this: 
Posted on 12/06/2011 5:28:07 AM PST by Kaslin
Don't tell Chuck that potatoes also contain arsenic. He'll want to ban french fries...that also form acrylamide when cooked in hot oil....Someone stop the madness!!
Oh, the horror!
Remember a few years back when pets were dying, and the FDA traced it back to a gluten that U.S. pet food manufacturers were obtaining from China? In order to boost the protein content, the Chinese were adding melamine (toxic) to the gluten. Chinese babies were dying because of the same thing. Melamine was added to the baby formulas to boost protein content.
It's not just our juices. Maple syrup. The bottles on the shelves locally state, "Product of Canada". Meats. Seafoods. Nuts.
Want to buy "local"? According to the USDA, a food can be labeled "local" if it's grown within 400 miles of its origin or within the State in which it's produced. Pull out a map of your town. Calculate the 400 mile radius for an eye-opener. http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR97/ERR97.pdf
95% of juice sold in the supermarket is reconstituted with city water from concentrate anyway, so its probably in the water supply to start.
So true. I work with FDA on Agriculture products - and their limits on many basic things such as heavy metals, pesticides, etc... is simply based on whatever the latest Testing Ability is - not any scientific proof that things that even occur in nature are actually bad.
Basically, if they can detect it, they ban it. There are no announcements or published standards either, only "guidances" which can change at a bureaucrats whim.
In their efforts to produce "safe food" - the EPA and FDA are going to drive most farmers out of business, leave a few large corporations running it all.
That’s ok. It was twice as unintelligible that way.
I can’t see anyone adding it, but who knows? (Not me!) As for natural sources, I’d rather have a little arsenic in my well than, say, lead. That’ll make ya crazy!
Arsenic, like mould, occurs EVERYWHERE in virtually EVERY cubic foot of soil and in virtually EVERY cubic meter of air on the planet.
Chuck, be afraid of everything...be very afraid...if the government could just lower the levels to the point we weren’t exposed to anything that could be harmful wouldn’t it be a great world!
I predict someday there will be a study of people who have not been ‘exposed’ to any ‘toxin’ in their whole lives. They will be weak pale little creatures living in a stainless steel box.
You have just given me a perfect answer to my brand of crazy....I can blame it on lead...now I just need to find the company that makes it so I can sue them...oh wait, that would be mother nature, :O( cannot sue her, she can be a bitch at times, tornados, hurricanes, snow storms...etc. Best to leave her alone.....:O)
Mother Nature can be mean for sure. I knew an accountant who inherited a lovely riverfront home, in the neighborhood of an old lead mine. Historic home, known locally for its long history of very eccentric occupants. He went so hare-brained crazy they had to put him in an asylum. The relatives took over the place, tried to sell it and found out the well water was so contaminated by lead, they couldn’t give the house away. Net losses of about five million dollars and one man’s freedom and sanity.
This sounds dumb I have never heard of mining for lead..but then there are millions of things I haven't heard of...:O)
Now mining/panning for gold is something I would like to do..on my bucket list but am too old to do it now...Always wanted to hire some old prospector and a mule in Alaska, grub stake him for the summer and have him take me out panning for gold.. Have gone diamond mining in Arkansas, but didn't find any diamonds...Arkansas has the only diamond area, state park that you can go and dig for diamonds...over the years some big one's have been found. The big canary diamond Hilliary Clinton wore to the inaugural ball is a diamond found at the diamond mine state park...If you find one, they will buy it off you on the spot. You take all the minerals/stones you find to their expert and they will tell you what you have.
Spot on the stuff is all over the place.If people knew what was in their carpet’s they would know why their eyes burn sometimes.
Products in the home have many chemicals in them.
Better living through chemistry DuPont says.
Meryl Streep weeps!
How hard would it be for companies to decore an apple before pressing it?
When the English colonized the Atlantic seaboard, one of the first things the settlers did was look for and mine lead. They'd melt them down to make these:
for this:
I know someone whose naturapath prescribed ARSENIC to cure her carpal tunnel syndrome....and, yes, it did. They said, taking it totally out of the water creates a situation where you do not get ENOUGH.
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