Protect Your Children Children are, as a rule, more vulnerable to toxins than are adults. This is why children especially should be fed an organic diet and taught how to resist junk-food culture. It may take years before many ailments associated with chronic or even episodic contact with toxins become apparent. Children, we hope, do have many healthy years ahead of them. In the aftermath of the Alar scare of the 1980's, a study concluded that the average child is exposed to four times as many cancer causing pesticides in food than are adults, based on the types of foods children are most likely to eat.
Food choice can have a substantial effect on a child's future health.
Infiltration of pesticides, hericides, fertilizers and other soluable chemicals into surface and groundwater is a major sorrce of concern all across North America. These dangerous synthetic chemicals are found in many cases in signifcant concentrations even in water supplies now being consumed by millions of people. In the United States, massive testing of municipal water systems has shown that the principal sources of drinking water for more than half the population have been contaminated. Right next door to Spokane in Airway Heights the city water supply has been declared undrinkable due to elevated nitrates, a sign of fertilizer pollution. Organic farmers do not contribute to water pollution.