Julien's Journal November 2015 (Volume 40, Number 11) | Page 39

average person’s tolerance to one pesticide
and do not account for sensitive individuals
who are harmed by these higher tolerances,
such as children, the elderly, and others with
impaired detoxification capacity. Moreover
there are few if any long term studies on
the health effects of eating pesticide laden
food vs. eating organically, so we really don’t
know the long term safety of eating food
produced with pesticides. Yet disease rates
continue to skyrocket, especially since the
1990s. Also, though the EPA continues to
report that food grown with pesticides
is “safe,” according to the Environmental

Working Group, the EPA’s 2012 report
fails to mention that 25% of all foods tested
exceeded the EPA’s own “safe” limits of pesticide residue levels.
The topic of toxicity in the body and the
question of whether eating food grown
with pesticides and chemi