Once again, another group has decided to follow the tactics of what I call the ‘Anti Vaccine Goof Troop’.
Here’s how it works: You take a very slight (or almost nonexistent) health risk, and you blow it all out of proportion to scare people.
1 published incidence of possible asthma from the Covid vaccine becomes asthma attacks increasing dramatically due to the covid vaccine. A .09% adverse reaction rate worldwide becomes people dropping like flies like never before.
In this case, Moms Across America (AKA GMO science) performed actual toxin screens on all of the types of Girl Scout cookies and published them. It shows they contain, among other things:
Looks scary, right? Except for the fact that at the levels they published, you would need to eat at least 9,000 cookies to get enough of the listed toxins to cause ANY concern.
So, Saturday night, I decided to take my own action to show solidarity with the Girl Scouts. Outside of my Walmart, they were selling Girl Scout cookies.
For the first time in nearly 30 years, I purchased a box of Thin Mints. And today, I just finished eating them. They tasted like crap, but it felt good to be thumbing my nose at the health alarmists of the world, and who doesn’t like helping Girl Scouts?
I hope more of you do the same and thumb your nose at this nonsense.
We stopped buying girl scout cookies a few years ago during COVID. The prices have become outrageous, and I never did care for them. At the time we bought them to help some of the neighborhood girls. Those girls are now young adults, and we have moved to a 55+ community.
Here’s the story: Allegedly, the State of Florida tested like 8 different brands of bread. They found levels ranging from negligible to 190 parts per billion.
"Florida first lady Casey DeSantis, who helps lead the state’s version of the Make America Healthy Again movement, recently said the Healthy Florida First initiative tested popular bread brands, revealing “triple-digit” levels of the herbicide glyphosate.
“Glyphosate is a weed killer,” DeSantis said. “It’s the main ingredient you find in Roundup and other weed-killing brands. It’s designed to kill plants, it is not meant to be eaten.”
There are seed companies that sell organically grown seeds. I don’t see the point in paying for that. Sure, I can understand people not wanting GMO seeds, and maybe even non-hybrid seeds.
But what could possibly get passed into your garden through seeds?
The glyphosate (Roundup) that might be on the flour that went into making a slice of bread likely got there because there is a farming practice (not widely used on USA crops) to “force-ripen” a wheat field for a quicker harvest. Residue therefore stays on the kernels, and gets introduced into the flour when it gets ground.
But even if a seed company did that (and I can’t imagine that they would), or if they sprayed insecticides on their seed-producing fields, the residue doesn’t get directly consumed. It gets further dissipated in the soil where the seed got planted, and MAYBE the plant absorbs a fraction of the dissipated residue, and that fraction of a fraction of a fraction would get dispersed throughout your plant, where a sub-fraction would be carried to the part you will harvest.
Sometimes the effort for purest of purity seems unbalanced for the result.
This is what happens when you don’t do any basic research. What they found was parts per billion (basically trace amounts), which is a LOT different than the parts per million in government allowable levels.
You are more likely to get cancer from secondhand smoke than eating a couple of slices of Wonder Bread.
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