Posted on 02/15/2024 10:02:14 AM PST by packagingguy
Four out of five Americans are being exposed to a little-known chemical found in popular oat-based foods — including Cheerios and Quaker Oats — that is linked to reduced fertility, altered fetal growth, and delayed puberty.
The Environmental Working Group published a study in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology on Thursday that found a staggering 80% of Americans tested positive for a harmful pesticide called chlormequat.
The “highly toxic agricultural chemical” is federally allowed to be used on oats and other grains imported to the US, according to the EWG. When applied to oat and grain crops, chlormequat alters a plant’s growth, preventing it from bending over and thus making it easier to harvest, per the EWG...
Another particularly concerning data point: After testing for the presence of chlormequat in urine collected from 96 people between 2017 and 2023, the EWG’s tests “found higher levels and more frequent detections of chlormequat in the 2023 samples…which suggests consumer exposure to chlormequat could be on the rise.”
However, the EWG noted, that the US Environmental Protection Agency UNDER PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN'S administration proposed allowing the first-ever use of chlormequat on barley, oat, triticale, and wheat grown in the US.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The Biden administration is allowing chlormequat to be more widely used.
Remind you local liberal of this when he/she/ze/zir tell you Republicans want to poison the children.
Cheerios causing sterility. Also myocarditis. Also blood clots.
Yeah but Cheerios has a picture of a bee and a heart on the box!!!!
And it is marketed as a childs snack.
back in the 80’s back folks were saying that the US was trying to sterilize them with stuff in chicken
Maybe they were not far off from the truth-
Finally an answer as to why I act like and adolescent. Where can I get a vax? Can it be combined with the CONvid shot? 🤣
The name reminds me of something that happened in the 70s involving marijuana.
Oh noes! Not another case of finding the deadly chemical DHMO in everyday items?!?
I worked for the summer of 1981 right next door to the General Mills Cheerios factory in Buffalo, NY.
It was/still is right on the river where they pull in the grain boats. Right off Lake Erie.
There was an empty grain elevator on the other side of the warehouse I was working in. If they burned a batch of Cheerios they came out on a conveyor and dumped into a big pile in the parking lot. They gave those away. People would come and fill trash cans to feed to their livestock. At night the rats came out of the river and the abandoned elevators. HUGE WELL FED RATS.
This was also on Ohio Street in Buffalo. It was the site of night time drag races. There was a bar down the street we would go for lunch. A draft beer was $.45. Regular price. Not happy hour.
Also, the guy I worked for was a mobster. He had recently sold his garbage company to BFI. He still owned a land fill in Niagara Falls, NY back then.
Speaking as a person who spent years in charge of a Hazmat Team. Dosage and concentration are what we worried about. Detectable levels in the parts per billion range are basically meaningless. We had a saying, “The solution to pollution is dilution.” And as scary as that might sound to some people it is the truth. Most substances are not harmful at all in very low concentrations.
I have not researched chlormequat but from wikipedia “chlormequat is classified as a low risk plant growth regulator and it is registered for use on ornamental plants grown in greenhouses, nurseries, and shadehouses.” If my team and I had responded to a spill... this would not have been something that would have cause much concern.
“folks were saying that the US was trying to sterilize them with stuff in chicken”
I recall that. Supposedly, that chicken was being shot full of female hormones to make the breasts larger. That, in turn, resulted in males who ate chicken being less fertile. (I believe that.)
If it is in imported grain, would iot not also be in bead?
After testing for the presence of chlormequat in urine collected from 96 people between 2017 and 2023.
Oh, yeah!!!
Here ya go: Make climate a priority in the 2023 Farm Bill
If you're going to push their propaganda, be sure to push ALL of it.
Tell your senators to suppor the Feinstein-Collins cosmetics bill.
Because you can trust the Environmental Working Group.
I read you. And that’s what I thought, too. They’ll pin it on anyone else but...
Yeah they're finding inventing all kinds of thing to explain this away.
That was “paraquat”. IIRC, the Mexican government was spraying pot fields with it, to kill the weed before harvest. The Mexican drug merchants then sold it in the US anyway ...
Some homeowner-use herbicides include “diquat”; it’s very effective at rapidly knocking down weeds. Don’t know about weed ... never tried it on that.
So, mobsters really all are in “waste management”? ;)
It will be in bread once it’s used on domestic wheat.
“found a staggering 80% of Americans tested positive for a harmful pesticide called chlormequat. Since chlormequat typically leaves the body within 24 hours, such a high concentration of positive tests indicates that Americans are regularly being exposed to the pesticide”
not buying for one second that 80% of Americans are eating oats on a daily basis.
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