2. Humankind is in danger of not being able to reproduce within 50 years; thereby creating the decline in population in unindustrialized nations, which would bring on an economic collapse.
3. Some foods, such as regular peanut butter, average over 10 different pesticides in one sample.
5. Endocrine interrupting pesticides can alter the sex of a child during the first 6 weeks of pregnancy. In some cases, causing a person to have traits of the opposite sex.
6. Chemical exposure often causes more problems in children than in the parents who were exposed.
7. A person living in Omaha and drinking city water consumes the maximum amount of atrazine (a spray used on corn fields) in only 2.6 years.
8. Chemicals used to control mosquitoes in the 60's saved 6 million lives from malaria. However, the residue in soil and crops may last for 100 years, and the benefits may not offset the losses in the next decade.
9. Household cleaning solvents and lawncare products are now creating health problems.
10. Four solvents used in plastic food containers volatilize and now appear as residues in over 20% of our food.
11. If a person eats a normal amount of fresh non organic fruit from a supermarket on a daily basis, in one year they will have also consumed about one gallon of pesticides.
Source: FDA Total Diet Study, "Toxics A to Z" by Harte, et al, and www. foodnews.org
