What do all these poisons in our food and environment do to our health? This whole book could be filled with reputable scientific evidence, facts, results of research, and actual cases to prove that poisons in our food and our environment do, indeed, harm us, make us sick, and may even kill us. Many excellent books are written on this subject; Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, for example.
But let me give you just a very short illustration of this point. Here is a case which is so typical in our poisoned way of life that it is happening every day—without our suspecting the real cause of the problem: In Chicago, a nine-year-old girl died after doctors could not diagnose her illness. They treated her for hypoglycemia, acidosis, and other things, without success. Finally her parents remembered that just before her acute illness the girl’s bedroom was sprayed with insecticide containing chlordane and organic phosphates!
Pesticides are suspected of being one of the causes of the sharp increase in birth defects.2 Measurable amounts of pesticides have been found in the tissues of stillborn babies. Lengthy exposure to pesticides in homes and farms can cause the fatal blood diseases, leukemia and aplastic anemia, reported a Mayo Clinic consultant Dr. M. M. Hargraves. The sharp increase in hepatitis in the U.S. may be due to wide use of insecticides.
Analysis of samples of foods served in restaurants showed that each food was contaminated with DDT. There are dozens of various pesticides in use in food production, and although little is known of the effect of one pesticide in combination with another, it is known that the toxic effect due to combination can be increased from 10 to 50 times!
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