Nearly 40% of conventional baby food contains toxic pesticides, US study finds
Nearly 40% of conventional baby food contains toxic pesticides, US study finds
None of the organic products sampled contained the chemicals, which present a dangerous health threat to babies, researchers say
This is why people don't have any faith in government. John Oliver on food safety if you want to get angrier
Honestly, it is good the system is breaking in this way.
Politicians are realizing that politics is not just easy money anymore. It's a job that every person's life is now suffering from.
Unions are increasing, climate activism is increasing, people are realizing the defense department may be a corrupt money pit rather then for defense.
Things are slowly changing, and the CEOs of the republican party are getting out before the roof collapses on them.
Politicians are realizing that politics is not just easy money anymore.
I don't believe this is accurate. (Gestures to the news, the latest elections, the current batch of gov)
I had to skip that one. I just didn't want to know. But I'm never eating chocolate again because of him.
Ugh, another EWG backed 'study' that media decided to report on. They produce sensationalist garbage that matches their ideology and not the science or data.
For example, if you look at their dirty dozen they list strawberries and all the news about it was showing fresh strawberries. Digging into the data they hadn't even tested any fresh strawberries, only frozen strawberries, and many of those from international sources. Their conclusions didn't match data
How did I guess this was the Environmental Working Group? This is a pseudoscience pushing fearmongering group who frequently mislead on a variety of topics in order to claim everything is killing you.
Yes, some contaminants are a concern, but I would want an actual trustworthy source discussing them, not the EWG.
They're the ones that were also a big pusher of the "vaccines cause autism" BS.
A lot of it is very likely genetics based on family history, but every time my daughter has a mental or physical health issue, I wonder if it's because she was exposed to this sort of thing as a baby. But then, I was born when the air was filled with lead from gasoline and there were probably even more and worse pesticides in my baby food, so maybe it's not as bad as it used to be?
It's a curve that is very difficult to get ahead of, because humans need to make a mistake before we identify something as being a mistake.
Even worse, we usually have to make those mistakes several times. And even then we have large swathes of people that forget we made them, and advocate for making the same mistakes over again. And then we make perverse incentives to lie to people about the fact that they're actually mistakes. Humans are wild.
The world has never been a safe place, but we keep trying. You do the best you can with the information you have and hope for the best.
And I think I've done my best. I've made mistakes, but every parent does. If she was eating toxic stuff as a baby, that was through no fault of my trying to keep her safe. I could't guarantee her baby food would have been free of poison. All I could do is hope they didn't do it. She was also born in Los Angeles and lived there for the first two years of her life. Maybe the air quality harmed her in developmental ways, but we didn't have the resources to move. You do what you can, but I hate that we poison our kids without even knowing it.
Kind of a negative Nancy headline. I would have said "Most baby food does not contain pesticides!" Reporting is all so senationalisitc and doom and gloom these days.
It's the EWG making the claim. They're a well known pseudoscience and fearmongering group. They also pushed the "vaccines cause autism" claim in the past.
If this claim were true (I see comments saying it's probably biased), 40% is an extremely high number. Baby's could eat like 10 to 20 (ballpark example figure, I know it varies) jars of baby food every week, it would suck if 4 to 8 of them had toxins. It's not like it's a whole fruit you can wash off. I agree with your point about unnecessary gloom in the news, but I don't think there's really much of a bright side to 60% uncontaminated baby food. If they took figures like 5% and sensationalized it I'd agree with you more. 60% is barely "most."
Nice