Red Alert from the Green Book at the White House
Environmental Article from All-Creatures.org

From NotMilk.com
December 2013

Shouldn't pesticide standards for human feed and animal feed be identical, particularly when some clueless humans continue to consume animals eating toxic feed?

If you are a bee or a bunny or a boy, you do not want to commit slow suicide by ingestion after drinking body fluids from cows, or eating their tainted flesh. If you are a gnat or a gannet or a girl, you do not want to suffer the consequences from dining on daily doses of deadly pesticides.

On November 1, 2013, a publication in a Japanese medical journal (Legal Medicine) performed by University of Okinawa School of Medicine researchers confirmed imidacloprid has been detected in the body fluids of insects, referring to their deaths as "suicide by ingestion."

"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law."
 - Winston Churchill

Nearly eight years ago, Notmilk was the first to report (Where Have All the Honey Bees Gone?) that a pesticide applied to the backs of dairy cows was responsible for a tragic disorder that was killing American bees and destroying beehive colonies.

If you are a bee or a bunny or a boy, you do not want to commit slow suicide by ingestion after drinking body fluids from cows, or eating their tainted flesh. If you are a gnat or a gannet or a girl, you do not want to suffer the consequences from dining on daily doses of deadly pesticides.

On November 1, 2013, a publication in a Japanese medical journal (Legal Medicine) performed by University of Okinawa School of Medicine researchers confirmed imidacloprid has been detected in the body fluids of insects, referring to their deaths as "suicide by ingestion."

On Sunday, December 1, 2013, the European Union caught up with Notmilk by banning banned the use of that same Bayer Aspirin company poison, imidacloprid, correctly reasoning that it was also destroying European bee populations. One small step for Notmilk. One giant leap for Bee-kind! Netter late than never!

FDA and USDA have a book (referred to as The Green Book) which lists legal pesticide limits and permissible levels for human food and animal feed. Those numbers differ greatly.

Rachel Carson's SILENT SPRING resulted in the banning of a horribly toxic pesticide, D.D.T. Ironically, Carson died a few months after  publishing the best selling book that changed America. Or did it? Her breasts became toxic dump sites for chemicals approved by government agencies, and her breast cancer overwhelmed healthy cells, resulting in her death.

The United States Department of Environmental Protection (EPA) has established so-called safe levels for pesticides in foods, but their tolerance levels make absolutely no sense.

EPA's math is one level below dyslexic, hovering between unethical and criminal.

If humans and animals eat the same plants, and humans then eat the flesh of these same animals, or drink their milk, the pesticides
become concentrated in the bodies and body fluids of those food-animals. Humans sit atop the food chain.

Unfortunately, government standards for farm animals allow greater amounts of pesticides in animal feed.

Let me cite you one example.

If soy crops are sprayed with one of the most toxic substances used in agriculture, malathion, EPA will allow no more than 8 parts per million on those soybeans.

Soybeans are harvested, roasted and served to dairy cows and beef cattle. If soy forage is used for animal feed, the permitted level of malathion
is nearly seventeen times greater (135 parts per million).

Humans may eat a few ounces per day of malathion-treated soy products. Dairy cows might eat ten pounds per day or more of that same product with higher permissible residues. Day after day. Week after week. Thousands of doses.

The actual human dose of malathion for milk drinkers or meat eaters may very well be thousands of times greater than the maximum standard for human tolerance as set by EPA.

Mal means bad, and malathion (Dimethoxy Phosphino Thioyl Thio Butanedioic Acid Diethyl Ester) is the baddest of pesticides. Exposure to malathion can result in a vast array of human conditions, including birth defects, cancer, chromosomal, brain, and kidney damage, leukemia, and often-times death.

Read the horror stories associated with malathion.

Many hundreds of different pesticides are used on America's farms. In most cases, the allowable levels of pesticides in feed for farm animals is significantly higher than it is for human food.

Other pesticide ranges include acetochlor (7 times higher for animal feed), alachlor (3.5 times greater), bentazon (60 times greater), carbaryl (20 times greater), chloroneb (20 times greater), diflubensuron (10 times greater), diphenamid (5 times greater), fenvalerate (20 times greater), methomyl (50 times greater), methyl parathion (10 times greter), metolachlor (40 times greater), and norflurazon (10 times greater). Many more pesticides are used. You get the idea.

Eat soy or any fruit and vegetable, and you get one dose. Eat organic soy, or organic fruits and vegetables, and you receive zero doses of pesticides.

Eat animals who are permitted many more times the levels of pesticides that are permitted for humans, and who eat many hundreds or thousands of doses, and you introduce poisons into your own flesh.

Is there any living creature higher on the food chain than human adults who eat poisoned flesh and dairy products?

Sadly, the answer is yes. The highest creature on the food chain is the growing fetus whose mother is exposed to these concentrated toxins. After birth, her mother delivers these concentrated pesticides to the child through breast milk.

Shouldn't pesticide standards for human feed and animal feed be identical, particularly when some clueless humans continue to consume animals eating toxic feed?

"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies."
 - Honore de Balzac

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