What they didn't tell you was that it took amounts that would take up to 150 years to build up in a human, assuming that none was excreted by the body's natural processes. IF we were to believe all that is bad about food today, there would be starving people in this country en mass because no one would eat any food bought from the local food store. Or worse yet, the food grown locally may be tainted by local ground contamination. All this is scary and dangerous, but if the proper safeguards are in place and are properly followed and, if greed and graft don't somehow become the way, we should have a safe food supply. Let us hope that there are whistle blowers out there who will help keep our food supply safe.
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