She does it because the new varieties have very tough skins for shipping, you don’t have to do it with home-grown tomatoes.
Over enthusiastic use of lead-based solder on copper plumbing will cause the same problems, as will storing alcoholic beverages in lead crystal containers, using crockery with lead-based glazes, and hundreds of other things.
Currently a lot of the Washington, DC water system has too much lead in it from early plumbing practices.
No need to get into the use of heavy metals in the medical area through the early 20th century.
We have been poisoning ourselves for a very long time. If you look at a pesticide container and read all of the warnings, why would anyone think it was a good idea to spray this stuff on food?
]]>I never stopped buying tomatoes. The odds of getting sick are pretty remote and really, isn’t any food you buy in a store a risk? I only trust my home grown veggies to be completely safe. And my tomatoes were still green at the time. I grow my own veggies and herbs so I can have pesticide free foods, but now it has the benefit of being safer and cheaper.
]]>They discovered in some century (I forget that detail) that it was eating tomatoes off of, or cooking in, pewter was literally driving the wealthy mad and in some cases, killing them. Often, they would go into toxic shock and people would think they were dead and bury them. It didn’t bother the poor much, since they couldn’t afford pewter. The acid from the tomatoes leached the lead out of pewter. There was also the fact that the elites began using lead pipes for their plumbing.
So know you know why all the wealthy elites are nutjobs, especially the *old* families! 😉 LOL
Apart from that bit of history… I agree the FDA response and actions are pathetic and should be criminal. I won’t hold my breath for that.
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