Free Breakfasts and Lunches for School Kids Has a Negative Side

Having free breakfasts and lunches for school kids sounds like a great idea. Its aim is to make sure that the kids can have the ability to study and learn in school by not being hungry. I’m all for this and it sounds like a great idea.

However, there’s a negative underside to this worthwhile program and that’s what’s in the foods.

By that I mean that these foods are loaded with toxins such as glyphosate, heavy metals and PFAS (these are the forever chemicals). 

These toxins have been linked to cancer, neurological damage, and liver disease just to give you a sample of what can go wrong from consuming these foods.

Recently a number of environmental and health groups met with the Environmental Protection Agency to urge the regulators to take immediate action to protect our children from these toxins in their food. 

The groups presented scientific evidence on how the amount of glyphosate and other toxins are damaging the bones, metabolism and immune systems of children while these toxins are also poisoning the soil that they are grown on.

While glyphosate is the most widely used weed killer (think Round-Up), there is another use very few people are aware of that puts this toxin right into our food supply. 

What I’m referring to is that this toxin is actually sprayed on crops just before they are harvested to make them dry out more evenly. This means when the plants are harvested, they have a high concentration of glyphosates that goes right into a child’s breakfast or lunch meal. 

So, how bad is it?

Recent tests of these foods found that adding up all the contaminants in the food resulted in a toxicity level that was 6,203 times higher than the EPAs own limits for drinking water. Read that again – over 6,000 times higher!

So…your kids may be better off drinking water than eating foods. Unfortunately, they can’t do that and stay healthy, so this is where organic foods come into play. If the EPA doesn’t regulate and eliminate this level of toxicity, having your school go organic will provide more protection to the health of your kids.
(Reported anh-usa.org)