Fwd: NOTMILK - Cows Eat More Pesticides Than Humans

September 4, 2005

Greetings Members:

Try passing this on (with finesse) to your family and friends who are not yet convinced that most of what they're eating and drinking is causing their illnesses or killing them slowly.Robert Cohen <notmilk wrote:

notmilk From: "Robert Cohen" <notmilkSat, 03 Sep 2005 10:23:58 -0000NOTMILK - Cows Eat More Pesticides Than HumansRachel Carson's "Silent Spring" resulted in the banning of one horribly toxic pesticide, D.D.T. Ironically, Carson died a few months after publishing the best selling book that changed America. Or did it? Unfortunately, government standards for farm animals allow for 60 or more times the amount of pesticides in animal feed than in food sold for human consumption. After cows eat pesticide-rich food, humans drink their chemical-rich body fluids and eat their polluted flesh. The United States Department of Environmental Protection (EPA) has established so-called safe levels for pesticides in foods, but their tolerance levels make

absolutely no sense. EPA's math is one level below dyslexic, hovering between unethical and criminal. If humans and animals eat the same plants, and humans then eat the flesh of these same animals, or drink their milk, the pesticides become concentrated in the bodies and body fluids of those food-animals. Humans sit atop the food chain. In addition to drinking milk containing thousands of doses of pesticides from thousands of meals of grass and hay, we concentrate poisoned milk into cheese and ice cream, thereby increasing the exposure. Let me cite you one example. If soy crops are sprayed with one of the most toxic substances used in agriculture, malathion, EPA will allow no more than 8 parts per million on those soybeans. Soybeans are harvested, roasted and served to dairy cows and beef cattle. If soy forage is used for animal feed, the permitted level of malathion

is nearly seventeen times greater (135 parts per million). Humans may eat a few ounces per day of malathion-treated soy products. Dairy cows might eat ten pounds per day or more of that same product with higher permissible residues. Day after day. Week after week. Thousands of doses. The actual human dose of malathion for milk drinkers or meat eaters may very well be thousands of times greater than the maximum standard for human tolerance as set by EPA. Mal means bad, and malathion (Dimethoxy Phosphino Thioyl Thio Butanedioic Acid Diethyl Ester) is the baddest of pesticides. Exposure to malathion can result in a vast array of human conditions, including birth defects, cancer, chromosomal damage, brain, and kidney damage, leukemia, and, often times, death. Many hundreds of different pesticides are used on America's farms. In most cases, the allowable levels of pesticides in feed for farm

animals is significantly higher than it is for human food. Other pesticide ranges include acetochlor (7 times higher for animal feed), alachlor (3.5 times greater), bentazon (60 times greater), carbaryl (20 times greater), chloroneb (20 times greater), diflubensuron (10 times greater), diphenamid (5 times greater), fenvalerate (20 times greater), methomyl (50 times greater), methyl parathion (10 times greter), metolachlor (40 times greater), and norflurazon (10 times greater). Many more pesticides are used. You get the idea. Eat soy or any fruit and vegetable, and you get one dose. Eat organic soy, or organic fruits and vegetables, and you receive zero doses of pesticides. Eat animals who are permitted many more times than the levels of pesticides than are humans, and who eat many hundreds or thousands of doses, and you introduce poisons into your own flesh. Is there any living creature higher on

the food chain than human adults who eat poisoned flesh and dairy products? Sadly, the answer is yes. The highest creature on the food chain is the growing fetus whose mother is exposed to these concentrated toxins. After birth, the mother delivers these concentrated pesticides to the child through her own breast milk. Robert Cohen http://www.notmilk.com -------------------THE NOTMILK NEWSLETTER:SUBSCRIBE: send an empty Email to-notmilk- UNSUBSCRIBE: send an empty Email to-notmilk- Forward this message to your milk-drinking friends:MILK from A to Z: http://www.notmilk.com/milkatoz.html2O QUESTIONS: http://www.notmilk.com/notmilkfaq.htmlWhat is an excellent alternative for NOTMILK?http://www.soytoy.com ... make your own grain and nut milks!SoyToy recipes

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