treated water and crops

[Guest guest]

As I watched the fluoride threads, I got to thinking about the context of

commercial agriculture. Since treated water costs significantly more than

untreated water, the bulk of food is irrigated with untreated water from wells

or canals. In some areas in California (where a lot of our vegetables come from)

there are parallel water systems, one for potable water (which has been treated

enough to meet drinking water standards) and irrigation water which hasn't been

treated enough for human consumption.

 

Its really unlikely they would spend the money on fluoride for anything other

than potable water.

 

All this said, very small farms growing specialty products could easily be

buying potable water for irrigation because they don't have any other options

which are available or financially feasible for them.

 

A question related to the implications of eating food raised with fluoridated

water would be " What's in the un-potable water they irrigate crops with that's

so bad that people can't drink it? "

 

For example, I think that in some places, with a water shortage, sewage

treatment plant outflow is sold for irrigation. Either that, or water is pumped

out of the same rivers for irrigation that all the sewage plant outflow is

dumped into. A large number of sewage treatment plants don't meet federal

standards for outflow quality and those standards aren't very exacting even if

they are met.

 

Since the warm places, where food grows fast and they can get multiple crops in

per year, tend to be short on water, I'm wondering what percentage of our

organic vegetables have been watered with water that contains some amount of

sewage plant outflow.

 

In some ways I'm more concerned about toxins and heavy metals than about

microorganisms.

 

Washing all those greens with either vinegar or peroxide is sounding really good

 

For me, one of the attractions for a raw food lifestyle is to get so healthy

that the body gets so good at healing itself, and flushing out unwanted

substances and life forms, that the body has great resilience even in less

pristine areas.

 

This allows one to focus on health and variety in life and diet, which is

healing in itself, step sideways out of the struggle to try to be perfectly pure

in an un-pure environment, and have even more energy to invest in health which

will improve the body's ability to cleans itself.

 

May your day be filled with clarity, grace, progress, and warm laughter,

Roger