Posted on 07/04/2009 6:24:16 PM PDT by kcvl
It was meant to be a show case for healthy living, with the first lady, Michelle Obama, personally putting hand to pitch fork in a crowd of school children to dig up the first White House vegetable garden in more than 50 years
It was meant to be a show case for healthy living, with the first lady, Michelle Obama, personally putting hand to pitch fork in a crowd of school children to dig up the first White House vegetable garden in more than 50 years.
Instead, an embarrassed White House admitted today that the plot - whose lettuce, herbs and other produce have been consumed by the first family, visiting dignitaries, local school children and a women's homeless shelter - had tested positive for elevated levels of lead.
The White House would not say whether the Obamas or the children who had helped tend the garden would be tested for lead exposure.
You mean they didn’t test like they force everyone else too? Probably why they trucked in vegetables so that it would look like Michelle had really grown something.
The last time I was sick was 64 years ago when I had the measles and I've never had the flu.
If I listened to the health whackos I would have dead 100 times over from 10 years of heavy asbestos breathing every day, spraying thousands of gallons of paint and breathing it, smoking for 60 years, etc.
Keep digging that hole, maybe your “inteligent” friends will chime in.
How anyone can say lead paint or exposure isn’t damaging is beyond comprehension.
I used to eat lunch and have to deal with the painter at our corporation once in awhile. His face was pockmarked with what looked like pre-cancerous skin exposure and he had more than just the one big red spot on his face.
At another job our production facility made lead-acid batteries for forklifts, etc. Major health problems among the older workers, all were on a corporate paid lead blood content monitoring program. That was ‘74.
You are a damned fool!
Who the Hell has their garden tested for lead contamination??? The thought would have never occurred to me. Anybody else routinely test their garden for lead?
OMG, what an awful picture! What lack of grace and decorum in a FL. Some people don’t have a clue how to dress to accentuate their positive features and cover up their problem areas.
I’ll continue to chew lead like I did durring WW2 for chewing gum!
Got it from the lead packages that food came packaged in!
“WOW, scientific confirmation from an auto body repairman. I guess all that stuff about closing wells and removing lead from solder is all BUNK per the auto body guy.
Also the water in Baltimore is intentionally made alkaline to keep the lead from leaching from old solder joints before they cut allowable lead to a fraction.
Guess the body guy is smarter than everyone else!”
I reckon he might be a whole smarter than you, sparky! We don’t make fun of other posters in this forum, ya hear?
More power to ya, the stuff kills everyone else.
“Anybody else routinely test their garden for lead?”
No, but my home wasn’t the scene of a major battle.
“We don’t make fun of other posters in this forum, ya hear?”
Why not, if half the people don’t hate me I look around to find out why and work to correct the situation!
I make damn sure democrats and RINOS hate me.
The White Hut has probably had tons of lead based paint applied over the years and then it flakes off and gets scraped off by the planation slaves...
Bush’s fault.
With regard to foreign threats, lead is found in Barack Obama’s pants.
One uncertified organic garden planted by an amateur unqualified organic gardener at the White House. No food industry applicable standards applied or followed at all for the organic label. The Rodale Institute would not be proud. “Are we boring you, Mr.Rodale?”
Bet that little Victory garden cost us $100K to grow enough for one lead filled meal. And he thinks he can run Healthcare?
Pray for America
I have no Photoshop skills, but that pic begs for a Transformers-style job. Maybe into a dumptruck.
(And that poor dog, who keeps getting dragged around by obvious non-dog people.)
Well darn, it almost worked.
LEAD in the food could only increase their intelligence, there is no way of it being able tpo decrease it!
It is a good idea if you are starting a garden in an urban area with a long history - like Washington DC. While digging one of my urban gardens years ago it was pretty clear that the yard had been a trash dump 100 years or more years earlier. Well worth testing for lead in those cases -- also the soil along the old houses is often high in lead from the paint leaching into the soil.
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