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Stop buying trash..only buy organic and know what you are buying

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During the week I was in a supermarket, and I had a look at what looked like an upmarket pack of oranges, here is the chemicals that was on theses ultra-shiny oranges: The waxes: • E903 – Carnauba Wax: Derived from a Brazilian palm tree. The most natural of the three, also used in car polish and cosmetics. Considered low risk, but still an industrial coating on our food. • E904 – Shellac: A resin secreted by lac insects. Not vegan. Also used to coat pharmaceutical tablets. • E914 – Oxidised Polyethylene Wax: A synthetic, petroleum-derived plastic wax. Approved by regulators, but this is a product of the petrochemical industry being applied to the skin of your fruit. The fungicides (mixed into the wax and applied post-harvest): • Pyrimethanil: Independent peer-reviewed research has identified endocrine-disrupting effects, a 2024 toxicology review flagged it as a persistent environmental pollutant and is investigating its potential role in Alzheimer’s disease. • Thiabendazole: It is the same compound used as an antiparasitic pharmaceutical drug in humans and animals. The EPA classifies it as likely carcinogenic at doses that disrupt thyroid hormones. • Imazalil: A systemic fungicide. California has classified it as a chemical known to cause cancer. The US EPA classified it as a probable human carcinogen as far back as 1999. Studies show it binds to hormone receptors and alters oestrogen production, making it a confirmed endocrine disruptor. • In the US the EWG testing found imazalil on nearly 90% of non-organic citrus samples, with average concentrations running at roughly 20 times the level EWG scientists consider safe for children. And to wrap this all up each chemical is assessed individually for safety. Nobody assesses what happens when three fungicides and three synthetic waxes are present simultaneously on the same piece of fruit — which is exactly what you are buying when you buy these oranges, or for that matter most conventional fruit on any supermarket shelf. 👇👇👇 Continued in comments below 👇👇👇

Isnt this just pure madness...be very careful what you eat and drink and make your own mind up if you think its good for you.

Eat organic, eat locally, read the food labels thoroughly and do your research.

Dont ever presume we are being sold food because it benefits us!

We thought we were finally emerging from a relentlessly wet spring. I don’t know why but I am always surprised by rain, you would imagine at this stage after 20 years of farming and living in the West of Ireland it wouldn’t come as such a shock! This week we had rain that can only be described as monsoon like, giant water droplets that have again saturated the ground and delayed further progress on the farm. Some of the green kale on our farm is on the cusp of going to flower and if the temperature gets back to over 12C then we will have our native Irish honeybees flying all over the farm. The first place they will go is to these beautiful flowers, which we will leave until the first aphid infestation begins. But here are a couple of facts you may be interested in. In conventional systems up until relatively recently many brassica plants were sprayed with neonicotinoid pesticides to destroy amongst other things, aphids. These chemicals are thankfully now banned in the EU. 1 teaspoon of Thiamethoxam alone can decimate over 1.25 billion bees. But this is not the end of the story. These chemicals and this one in particular is still manufactured in the EU, in Belgium by Syngenta and is exported all over the world, it is hard to get accurate data but somewhere in the region of 10,000 tonnes of the stuff is exported to other countries. If you assume that one teaspoon is 3g, then is a lot of teaspoons, it is enough to wipe out the global population of honeybees and wild bees 10 times over. Not only that, and here is the real dark side of this (as if it was not already dark enough) Syngenta knew and did not release data that their chemicals decimated bee population, they kept this from regulators knowing the damage these chemicals did. So, when we are told by the companies that manufacture pesticides that they are safe, and where they stand to earn billions of dollars in profit. I error on the side of caution and tend not to put too much trust in what they say. 👇👇👇 Continued in comments below 👇👇👇

https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/04/take-action-say-no-deregulation-gmo-food?utm=.share.copy

Take action: Say no to deregulation GMO food | Corporate Europe Observatory The European Union is planning a major hand-out to big corporations like Bayer and BASF, that aim to control the food chain even further. What do they intend to do? Scrapping safety and transparency rules for risky new GMOs, and let corporations profit from patented GM crops.