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| Elsie and her Sweet Potato Project |
We all know that if we
really want to know how our new recipe tastes, we just need to offer a sample
to a school-aged child and we will get the bold, cold, hard truth. Kids
have a tendency to "tell it like it is." If you are looking
for compliments on your new purple striped floral outfit, you may not want to
ask your kids!
When her elementary
school put on a science fair, a young girl named Elsie decided to display how
sweet potatoes grow, and how long it would take for a sweet potato to grow
vines when put in a glass of water. She used a conventional sweet potato
from a mass-market grocery store. When the first potato turned out to be
a dud spud, she tried another one, perfectly stuck with the toothpicks to hold
the sweet potato just high enough out of the water so that it would grow roots
in the water and it would grow vines above the water line from the eyes of the
potato...
Theoretically, this was
a perfect, slam-dunk, easy A+ project, right? I mean, almost anyone with
a social media account has seen the posts on how to grow your own food from
what you get at the grocery store, so we all know this works. I even
remember doing this fun experiment when I was a kid! Don't you? How
could it possibly go wrong??
Watch Elsie's project
video here if you aren't able to click on the video above:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exBEFCiWyW0
Nope, it's not a GMO.
It's not even a pesticide. How about this: A plant growth
regulator, classified as an herbicide. Chlorpopham works by stopping the
cellular reproduction that allows plants to grow. Mass market producers
spray this on our food such as sweet potatoes to prevent the potatoes from
sprouting while they sit in your cupboard waiting for you to cook them.
If you Google
"Chlorpopham," you will find this EPA link that explains a bit about
it: http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/reregistration/REDs/0271red.pdf
And, you will find this
National Institutes of Health document that explains how they came to the
assumption that this was okay to put in our food:
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search/a?dbs+hsdb:@term+@DOCNO+981
This document explains
the lab tests and studies done on rats, mice AND Beagles!! Yes, Beagles, as in
the breed of dog. Please, don't be so naive. It also explains
exactly how Chlorpropham stops living cells from regenerating or reproducing.
It tells how it causes hemoglobin and red blood cells to stop, how
it causes thyroid glands to enlarge, how it causes a decrease in bone marrow,
how it causes blood to turn brown, how it causes the liver to malfunction,
excreting billirubin into the urine... Go read it! You probably won't
understand everything they are talking about with all their "technical
jargon," but don't let that scare you away from reading it. The
manufactures are just HOPING that will scare us all away from knowing what they
are trying to put in our food.
So.... WHY does our
government ALLOW this chemical, that they KNOW is deadly, to be put in our
food? I don't know the correct answer to that. If you read these
documents, it looks like someone thought, "Well, we know it prevents cells
from regenerating... BUT it isn't going to kill a human who just eats ONE
serving... It's just going to kill them slowly enough over time if they keep
eating it, and they will never be able to pin it back to THIS ONE SINGLE
CHEMICAL. How much do you want to pay for our political interests???
APPROVED!"
Scumbags.
KNOW what is in your
food. Then, if you don't like it, vote with your fork!! DON'T BUY IT,
DON'T EAT IT. The only way we are going to stop these companies from
poisoning our food is if we don't purchase their poison.
If organic farmers can
grow food without chemicals, conventional farmers and mass-producers can do it,
too!
Good job, Elise. I
give you an A++ on your project! Thank you for sharing your discovery
with the world.
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