{"id":1614,"date":"2012-12-12T15:34:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T19:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2012-12-12T15:34:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T19:34:13","slug":"pesticides-now-more-than-ever-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/12\/pesticides-now-more-than-ever-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Pesticides: Now More Than Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Mark Bittman (NYT) writes about pesticides in&#8230; well, everything. As he points out this is not new but it is important, and after getting better following Rachel Carson&#8217;s Silent Spring, it&#8217;s getting much worse again&#8230; Two quotes below but read the full article, its pretty short.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was impressed by a statement by the American Association of Pediatrics \u2014 not exactly a radical organization \u2014 warning parents of the dangers of pesticide and recommending that they try to reduce contact with them. The accompanying report calls the evidence \u201crobust\u201d for associations between pesticide exposure and cancer specifically brain tumors and leukemia and \u201cadverse\u201d neurodevelopment, including lowered I.Q., autism, and attention disorders and hyperactivity. Alzheimer\u2019s, obviously not a pediatric concern, has also been linked to pesticide exposure.<\/p>\n<p>&lt;snip&gt;<\/p>\n<p>If I were of child-rearing age now, or the parent of young children, I would make every effort to buy organic food. If I couldn\u2019t do that, I would rely on the Environmental Working Group\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewg.org\/foodnews\/summary\/\">guide to pesticides in produce<\/a>. (Their \u201cDirty Dozen\u201d lists those fruits and vegetables with highest pesticide residues, and their \u201cClean Fifteen\u201d notes those that are lowest.) But regardless of age, we need to stay awake, and remember that the dangers of pesticides are as real now as they were half a century ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/11\/pesticides-now-more-than-ever\/?src=me&amp;ref=general\">Pesticides: Now More Than Ever &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Bittman (NYT) writes about pesticides in&#8230; well, everything. As he points out this is not new but it is important, and after getting better&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[307,361,382,443],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}