Have a read ➡️

Especially the highlighted areas.

What does LD50 mean?

LD stands for "Lethal Dose". LD50 is the amount of a material, given all at once, which causes the death of 50% (one half) of a group of test animals.

To explain, they feed this chemical to animals (rats, rabbits, guinea pigs) and time how long it takes for half of them to die..(I think it's safe to assume this is not a pleasant 'putting them to sleep' death but instead a quite barbaric, painful slow death)

This same method has been used since 1927.

Take note of the hazard mentioned: "Suspected of damaging fertility OR the unborn child. "

Why do the farmers use it?

Especially when the label and Safety Data Sheet (SDS) clearly explains this is dangerous stuff.

Because the buyers at Woolworths and Coles, when inspecting 2 lots of farmers produce and one is looking perfect and the other is chewed by grubs, chooses the perfect version (without questioning why).

The farmer has to feed his family too, so he quickly learns he needs to buy Simodis and start covering his vegetables in it.

I wonder if he stops feeding those broccoli to his own family.

As consumers we do the same thing at the supermarket choosing the perfect looking fruit or vegetable over the blemished one which in turn tells the supermarket produce buyers that they are making the right choice selecting unblemished growers produce.

We are locked into a cycle that seemingly has no end.

Should we be worried?

That is up to you to decide. Yes, there is a withholding period that hopefully means the pesticide is no longer in the vegetable by the time you eat it. That plant has absorbed that chemical, we are then told to eat it. (A bit like the lab animals also told to eat this tasty substance)

As another well known example, we were also told that treated pine was totally safe for many years and built children's playgrounds with it despite knowing it had arsenic as an active ingredient.

Now all those children's playgrounds have been ripped out and replaced with plastic because we now consider the treated pine dangerous.

The chemicals used in treated pine no longer have arsenic but have other chemicals to preserve the wood and stop termites and again we are told they are totally safe.. and amazingly effective.

Which Food do you Want to Eat?

This is my picking basket that we keep in the kitchen with a pair of scissors always ready to duck out to the veggie garden and grab some fresh food for dinner.

Grown with soil, fresh air, water and sunshine and no chemicals.

Once you know what goes into our food, it is hard to beat growing your own veggies at home and that is why Kaylene and I are passionate about teaching families to be successful micro farmers.

Using tools like the Geofelt planters, Octaspray irrigation, Pestfree Covers, makes it within reach for families to grow healthy food at home even if they have never grown veggies before. Give it a go. We will be here to support you.