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.
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Even if one wants to eat healthy, one can’t.
Food scares me right now. If we wouldn’t need food to survive, I’d quit eating, cold turkey.
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maybe some FR farmers can chime in.
Almost all oats stocks come from Canada. They grow the best. Oats grown in the states are stunted and unreliable in comparison. I worked maintenance at an oatmeal producer. Also don’t buy flavored oatmeal. That’s dumb and unhealthy.
This is where Dianainwisconsin can chime in.
This is no 'accident'...............
I guess it’s time to throw out the Cheerios!
“The solution to pollution is dilution.”
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I don’t swim in your toilet; please don’t pee in my pool.
send them overseas.
Fish, fowl, and mammals don’t just pee in the ocean.
“I never drink water....fish f___ in it.” - WC Fields
That is really quite silly. You are a victim of 24 hour a day nonstop propaganda. These types of food scares have been being perpetrated on the public since Rachel Carlson's book Silent Spring was released in 1962. This was before many people in this forum were even born. The book was without basically any scientific merit. But leftist learned that by scaring the public they could get what they wanted.
This article and supporting pieces are all without merit as well. Don't let them scare you. The harm they do by undermining the public's best interest and causing them to make poor nutritional choices for political purposes is evil.
I remember back in the 1970s when arsenic was put in animal food. I worked with chickens so when a bag of feed came in I looked at the tag. There it was. A small amount of Sodium Arsenate.
Somehow it helped chickens get fat.
Read that carefully...delayed puberty.
What that means is a lake of normal sexual hormones. Which should mean all these kids saying they are ‘transition’ this or that, are likely experiencing a hormone imbalance.
Ultimately, they are not gay, bi, or asexual...their hormones are screwed up!!!!
I donate to Environmental Working Group every year, follow their recommendations because I want to stay healthy. Always buy organic fruits and veggies that are on their “Dirty Dozen”list, which means they are sprayed with lots of pesticides. Pesticides are meant to kill things, I don’t want them in my body.
They also test water quality in cities. On a scale of one to nine, with nine the worst, ours is a nine, and they don’t know our water pipes have lead in them.
I buy bottled water and that’s what my cat and I drink.
I’m 87 and in excellent health. Take 12 nutritional supplements daily and one prescription drug. I read the right books decades ago: “Food Is Your Best Medicine” and “How to Stay Healthy and Feel Better”, both by doctors.. Still in print, available at AMZ
The only cereal I actually like is Panda Puffs, just had a yummy bowl with good-for-you ground walnuts sprinkled on top. Panda Puffs are organic with no GMOs.
Male friend asked what I wanted for a Valentine, and I asked for Panda Puffs. Big box arrived yesterday. Yum.
Hey, maybe he wasn’t a mob guy. He was a bald Italian American who drove a SL 550 Mercedes, carried a gun and had been in the garbage business. Probably just a coincidence.
This guy sold his company(Nuco) to BFI fro 90MM. BFI eventually got bought by Waste Management.
I actually worked for a sub contractor. The mob guy was rehabbing a 3 story house on Delaware Ave into a men’s clothing store and an apartment on the third floor. We were refinishing all these solid mahoghany doors and wood panels in this Victorian house.
He owned real estate all over Buffalo. He had apartments all over the city. He didn’t rent them out. Just kept them as crash pads were he could take bimbos.
They’re using it on wheat now which might be why you see the increase in levels in humans.
Except that there were also stories, some of which appeared on FR, that claimed Mexican females were experiencing precocious puberty due to many families being so poor that they ate a lot of chicken necks and that is where the hormones were injected into the chicken.
The moral of those stories was either that evil Americans had to stop injecting chickens or we were responsible for taking care of the increased spawn.
Does eating different parts effect different sexes of different races differently or is it mostly just a silly story?
I don’t, and won’t, give those freaks so much as a penny.
Ever.
On a scale of one to nine, with nine as the worst, I consider their credibility a nine.
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