Sen Ruderman, where is the proof

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Originally posted by Midnight Rambler
Well, there's your mistake right there. There's probably a much greater risk in eating corn grown on former sugarcane or pineapple lands due to all the horribly toxic pesticides that used to be sprayed on them and still persist in the soil, than from anything in the GMOs or the safer chemicals currently used.

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Exactly. For example, anyplace where cane was grown has widespread arsenic contamination, because it was used for many years to fight rats in the cane fields. And most of the sugar plantations also used mercury ant-fungal pits to treat sugar cane starts before they were planted in the fields.

Was there any cleanup when they closed? No.

What happened to that land? A lot of it was chopped up into small lots for people from the big cities to buy... people who wanted to grow their own and eat healthy.