A Chemical Reaction to the White House Garden

<h1>A Chemical Reaction to the White House Garden</h1>Author: <a title="Eric Melin" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/eric-melin/121137.htm">Eric Melin</a> Take the Mid America Crop<a href="http://www.jazdlifesciences.com/pharmatech/">Life</a> Association (MACA), for instance…this group represents agribusinesses like Monsanto, Dow AgroSciences and DuPont Crop Protection, and they’ve got a bone to pick. In a letter they wrote to Michelle Obama, brought to the public attention via La Vida Locavore (where you can read the letter in its entirety), MACA expressed concern that the decision to grow an organic garden would give consumers the wrong impression about conventionally grown food – and by that I’m assuming that they mean letting the public at large know that food can actually be grown without using chemicals (imagine that!)…. The letter states… “We live in a very different world than that of our grandparents. Americans are juggling jobs with the needs of children and aging parents. The time needed to tend a garden is not there for the majority of our citizens, certainly not a garden of sufficient productivity to supply much of a family’s year-round food needs.” Which begs the question: are we really considering children and aging parents who have underdeveloped or compromised immune systems, when we spray our yards, and gardens with poisonous pesticides? Children and pets roll around and play on the lawn and in the dirt. If we are spraying our lawns, and gardens with pesticides we are exposing them to toxic chemicals that can compromise the human body. The Danger of Exposure We absorb <a href="http://www.jazdchemicals.com/chemyellowpages/">chemicals</a> and toxins three ways: <ol> <li>Swallowing - ingesting them via our food. </li> <li>Breathing - via inhalation of air.</li> <li>Skin and or eye contact - i.e. absorption of your personal care products.</li> </ol> So when you spray pesticides in and around your yard and home, keep in mind that you, your family and pets can absorb its chemicals via all three of these passage ways. The New England Journal of Medicine, published a study in July of 2000, that states we are more likely to get cancer from pesticide exposure than from hereditary causes. Studies have also shown that pesticides and toxic chemicals can be up to 10 times more poisonous to child’s underdeveloped immune system. Clearly, I don’t think that a ‘busy’ lifestyle if enough of an excuse to use pesticides – ever. What are your thoughts on the MACA letter - and about pesticide exposure overall? I’d love to hear from you! Source : <a href="http://www.organicauthority.com/"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.organicauthority.com">http://www.organicauthority.com</a></a>About the Author: Eric Melin has over 10 years of Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization experience. He has a proven track record with numerous web startups having founded a SEO/SEM firm in Boston. His agency managed advertising budgets for Fortune 500 clients, and generated over $10 million in revenues from paid and algorithmic search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN.Article Source: <a href="http://www.articlesbase.com/">ArticlesBase.com</a> - <a href="http://www.articlesbase.com/science-articles/a-chemical-reaction-to-the-white-house-garden-966270.html" title="A Chemical Reaction to the White House Garden">A Chemical Reaction to the White House Garden</a>

Take the Mid America CropLife Association (MACA), for instance…this group represents agribusinesses like Monsanto, Dow AgroSciences and DuPont Crop Protection, and they’ve got a bone to pick.

In a letter they wrote to Michelle Obama, brought to the public attention via La Vida Locavore (where you can read the letter in its entirety), MACA expressed concern that the decision to grow an organic garden would give consumers the wrong impression about conventionally grown food – and by that I’m assuming that they mean letting the public at large know that food can actually be grown without using chemicals (imagine that!)….

The letter states…

“We live in a very different world than that of our grandparents. Americans are juggling jobs with the needs of children and aging parents. The time needed to tend a garden is not there for the majority of our citizens, certainly not a garden of sufficient productivity to supply much of a family’s year-round food needs.”

Which begs the question: are we really considering children and aging parents who have underdeveloped or compromised immune systems, when we spray our yards, and gardens with poisonous pesticides? Children and pets roll around and play on the lawn and in the dirt. If we are spraying our lawns, and gardens with pesticides we are exposing them to toxic chemicals that can compromise the human body.

The Danger of Exposure
We absorb chemicals and toxins three ways:

Swallowing - ingesting them via our food.
Breathing - via inhalation of air.
Skin and or eye contact - i.e. absorption of your personal care products.

So when you spray pesticides in and around your yard and home, keep in mind that you, your family and pets can absorb its chemicals via all three of these passage ways.

The New England Journal of Medicine, published a study in July of 2000, that states we are more likely to get cancer from pesticide exposure than from hereditary causes.

Studies have also shown that pesticides and toxic chemicals can be up to 10 times more poisonous to child’s underdeveloped immune system.

Clearly, I don’t think that a ‘busy’ lifestyle if enough of an excuse to use pesticides – ever.

What are your thoughts on the MACA letter - and about pesticide exposure overall? I’d love to hear from you!

Source : http://www.organicauthority.com

Eric Melin has over 10 years of Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization experience. He has a proven track record with numerous web startups having founded a SEO/SEM firm in Boston. His agency managed advertising budgets for Fortune 500 clients, and generated over $10 million in revenues from paid and algorithmic search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

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