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  1. Undecider says:

    Christina, thanks for the articles to help keep us informed. Granted, you can’t provide volumes of data but give us starters, it is these starters which are used to springboard into other gateways. It’s not about the journey but the destination.

    For the trolls who will try to claim all this as false, try digging into the data. Look at yourself in the mirror and ask who really cares about your health.

  2. EDH_Addict says:

    I’m concerned about the use of pesticides, but I’m also concerned about the exceptionally poor communication of science. The context and cause of a number of these claims in this article are being misconstrued.

    For example, the claim about reduced reduced nutritional quality due to reduced soil nutrients completely ignores the very reasonable alternative explanation that conventional breeding and selection of different cultivars can cause this effect. This is extremely obvious as the quote states “there has been a 41.1 to 100% decrease in vitamin A in 6 foods: apple, banana, broccoli, onion, potato, and tomato.” See the glaring oversimplification? The claim refers to “apple” without specifically indicating which varieties of apples are being compared, much less how the comparison is being performed to come to the conclusion that there has been at least a 40% decrease. The content of polyphenols, for example, varies considerably between apple varieties. Furthermore, you would need to control for environmental differences to accurately determine changes in nutritional content. Basically, this claim is grossly oversimplified. And if it wasn’t bad enough already, the reference link is to a “natural health” company’s page, not a peer-reviewed independent source.

    Similarly, attempts to link pesticides to “asthma, autism and learning disabilities, birth defects and reproductive dysfunction, diabetes, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, and several types of cancer” is equally fallacious. While pesticides may be a contributing factor in some cases of some of these diseases or conditions, there are many other potential causes. One very likely cause of increased Alzheimer’s rates is simply the fact that more people are living longer now and surviving other diseases, thus giving them the chance to (unfortunately) develop Alzheimer’s. Our sedentary lifestyle is also linked to diabetes and various cancers.

    Yet again, if you are a fan of not thinking too much, Christina Sarich is your go-to writer.

  3. Good informative article.

    Many other sources support the points that Sarich has made. Try a search instead of grousing. Note also that Monsanto has been caught yet again BUYING scientists to produce pro-Monsanto so-called ‘science.’

    Scientists
    who become anti-GMO advocates are NOT shunned by the scientific community, but they Are ridiculed (an attempt to discredit) by Monsanto’s bought shills.

  4. Zy Marquiez says:

    Thanks for the information. Great work. Keep it up.

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