
by Milos Pokimica
More than 80 percent of pesticides in food exposure in the standard American diet comes from animal products, not from fruits or vegetables.
Milos Pokimica
The agricultural revolution led to the rise of the human population, and that is not something that can change no matter how much we encourage environment-friendly solutions. One thing, and maybe the only thing we are able to do is to lower our exposure to pollution by going organic and going low on a food chain as much as possible.
Most of the pesticides in food and especially heavy metals and other toxic waste pollutants we get, we get from meat.
There is a misconception that when we clean or wash pesticides from plants we lower our exposure. Most of the pesticide deposits cannot be removed by washing. They are mostly made on an oily base so that rain won’t wash them off. Correct numbers are just a couple of percent overall. Washing the apple removes around 15%, and peeling removes around 85% but also removes most of the nutrition in the peal. If you do not eat organic and most of us do not, then do wash and scrub all produce thoroughly under running water. When you soak, there is no abrasive effect that running water provides. Running water will help remove bacteria (some of them may come from animal feces and be dangerous). There are also toxic chemicals on the surface of fruits and vegetables and dirt from crevices.
However, the real truth is that more than 80 percent of pesticides in food exposure in the standard American diet come from animal products, not from fruits or vegetables.
I do not mean just fish with DDT and mercury accumulation from the ocean. Regular animal fat on farms accumulates toxins in the same manner. Cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens are held in unsanitary and overcrowded conditions that exist on factory farms. To prevent pest infestation, they are directly sprayed with pesticides. Also, they are exposed to a large number of crop pesticides through their food. Animal feed sprayed with pesticides represent the primary source of exposure from pesticides in food. Somehow we forget that all or most of the food that goes to animal feed are sprayed too. This is somehow not angulated by most people. By the estimates of the Environmental Working Group, every year in the U.S. around 167 million pounds of pesticides are just used to grow animal feed. These pesticides are eaten, and then they accumulate in animals. Pesticides are fat-soluble substances so every single gram will be assimilated into the adipose tissue of the animals and will end up on our plates eventually. This can be allowed because there is no restriction in legal terms for pesticides used in animal feed. For instance, the most commonly used pesticide in the world is glyphosate. Legally, residues that are allowed in animal feed are more than 100 times than what is allowed on grains consumed directly by humans. What is even worse is that animals eat enormous amounts of feed during the day and all of the toxins just get concentrated even more. It is a term known as biomagnification in a food chain.
The amount of glyphosate allowed in red meat that you buy in the store is more than 20 times that for most plant crops. There is a wide range of other different substances that agencies don’t even test for. These regulations have nothing to do with preserving public health, and nobody likes to talk about this because you cannot rinse pesticides out of the meat, so this information is kept out of the public.
All of that poison is not going to disappear when we grill our burger magically. Most of the pesticides in the food we will ingest or let’s say most of the people will ingest comes from animal products. Meat cannot be peeled or washed.
This is a quote from the FDA website (click here):
“Do animals eat GMO crops?
More than 95% of animals used for meat and dairy in the United States eat GMO crops. Research shows that eggs, dairy products, and meat from animals that eat GMO food are equal in nutritional value, safety, and quality to foods made from animals that eat only non-GMO food. Studies also show that the health and safety of animals are the same whether they eat GMO or non-GMO foods
When animals eat GMO foods, the DNA in the GMO food does not transfer into the DNA of the animal that eats it. This means that animals that eat GMO food do not turn into GMOs. If the DNA did transfer from food into the animal that eats it, an animal would have the DNA of any food it ate, GMO or not. In other words, cows do not become the grass they eat, and chickens don’t become the corn they eat. Similarly, the DNA from GMO food for animals is not in the meat, eggs, or milk from the animal.
Who makes sure food for animals is safe?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the primary regulatory agency responsible for ensuring the safety of GMO and non-GMO food for animals. The FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine manages this responsibility. FDA requires that all food for animals be safe for animals to eat, be produced under clean conditions, contain no harmful substances, and be accurately labeled—similar to the requirements for foods for humans.”
They deliberately don’t want you to know the real truth. All of this is true to some extent but irrelevant. The reason animals eat GMOs in the first place is because GMO corn can be sprayed with Roundup and other more potent pesticides. Nutritional value is not the same as in organic farming, commercial land is depleted of all minerals, but even if it is, you will still eat all of those fat-soluble pesticides that will accumulate in the fat of the animals. We will see in other articles just how much of the toxic overload Americans are exposed to in real life. Something FDA doesn’t like to talk about because then they will no longer be able to protect their big industries. They like to call their GMO marketing initiative “Feed Your Mind” (www.fda.gov/feedyourmind).
There is also something called cannibalistic feed biomagnification. Mercury is not just in fish. We feed a fish meal to other farm animals. Even to the cattle. Farmers discovered that if they feed animal protein to the cattle by mixing it with other plant food sources, cattle tend to grow more and produce more milk. It is not just humans that can eat animal protein all plant-eaters can eat animal protein if the protein is first heated and treated even grazers. Psychologically we think we are omnivores because we can eat thermally processed meat but that is not the case. If you do not believe me here is one study (3). This study’s conclusion was:
“There seems to be a good reason to feed a good quality protein like a fish meal to cows producing more than 30 kg/d of milk.”
Fish-eating cows produce milk that has no aftertaste, so yes this study was a success. Except for mercury. We get saturated fat from milk and meat and all of the rest of the bad stuff, and as surplus, we also get mercury from fish in the milk of the cows too.
When we test all of the food products for toxic pollution levels, number one is fish number two is chicken. The two “healthy” types of meat. Cheese comes the third. Worst than butter or bacon.
We also feed all of the slaughterhouse waste products of animals to other animals. Because of cannibalism the pollutants just circle around.
The economically well-designed but extremely toxic trend among affluent countries is to feed any animal byproducts that cannot be eaten by humans to poultry and ruminants (herbivores such as sheep, cows, and goats). In industry, nothing is wasted including bones, manure, blood, heads, and so on. Most of it goes to dog food or animal food. All of the blood, bones and even roadkill corpses, supermarket waste meat, anything from the city shelter, work animals, euthanized pets, and any protein no matter how decaying are grounded together, then heated to sterilize them, then dried, and then used as animal feed. It is all part of the rendering business.

Inedible dead animals and that means all of them including dogs and cats and other dead pets like reptiles, insects, or anything that is no longer alive, end up in feed used to fatten up future generations of their own kind. Protein is a protein. What cannot be used as animal feed or in other words that can be extracted for more expensive products will end up transmogrified into rubber, car wax, paint, and industrial lubricants. Some of it even goes to animal feed for chicken or fish farms and will not be used for pallets for pets meaning it will end up eventually on our own kitchen table. Most of the toxins that are thermostable will persist from one species to another. Prion disease is one good example of what can come out of this (Mad cow disease). Not only are harmful prions found in the meats of animals, all other pollutants just get passed from one animal to another and eventually will end up on our own plate.
People have a hard time with this data so let us look at some studies.
For example, if we look at perfluorooctane sulfonates almost all of it comes from meat and fish (4).
In this study, they measured the levels of the dietary influx of PCBs and organochlorine pesticides for children and adults (5). For PCP it was the number one fish than meat, fats, cheese, dairy, eggs poultry. For DDT it was fish, meat, fat, dairy, cheese, and eggs. For HCB (hexachlorobenzene) it was the same. These substances are fat-soluble and are in the environment and they bioaccumulate in the food chain.
What about Dioxins?
Every five years, the US government releases a report about the number of dioxins in the food supply because they have to by law. This type of toxin is fat-soluble and it will also bioaccumulate in the food chain. Dioxins are toxic waste pollutants spewed out into the atmosphere by combustion in different types of industries and will eventually end up in the ocean for eternity to come. So the fish is number one and number two would be eggs, and then the rest of the meats. The problem is that in America the entire population is well above the upper tolerable exposure limit for both PCP and Dioxins set by the cancer prevention board in every age group (6). The situation can become much worse if you want to become pregnant.
And these would be just a couple of substances I use as an example. The number of pesticides in food and environmental toxins we are exposed to is outstanding. There is a “dirty dozen” list but the real number is in the hundreds. Maybe even thousands. There is no real science in all of these chemicals yet. There are too many of them and nobody wants to do research because that will make a business more expensive.
One more false narrative is that somehow grass-fed beef is healthier and less polluted and in a logical sense it should be. The only problem is that when tested for carcinogenicity because our world by now is so polluted even that organically grown meat was shown to be only marginally less carcinogenic. Today only real organic meat would be wild game meat but this has to be a subject for another article.
Sources:
Passages selected from a book: “Go Vegan? Review of Science: Part 1” [Milos Pokimica]
- Environmental contaminants and pesticides in animal feed and meat https://doi.org/10.1533/9781845691028.1.132
- Analytical Methods Applied to the Determination of Pesticide Residues in Foods of Animal Origin. A Review of the Past Two Decades doi: 10.1016/j.chroma.2010.12.097.
- Effects of feeding a fish meal to cows on digestibility, milk production, and milk composition. J Dairy Sci. 1992 Feb;75(2):502-7
- Perfluorooctanesulfonate and Related Fluorochemicals in Human Blood From Several Countries doi: 10.1021/es0493446
- Estimation of dietary intake of PCB and organochlorine pesticides for children and adults. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2010.10.025
- Evaluation of Background Exposures of Americans to Dioxin-Like Compounds in the 1990s and the 2000s DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2009.08.016
Related Posts
- Facebook15
- Pinterest4
- Reddit1
- Blogger
- Gmail1
- WhatsApp1
- Viber1
- Love This
- Click me for More
- Facebook Messenger
- Skype
- Digg
- Del
- Tumblr
- VKontakte
- Flattr
- Buffer
- Odnoklassniki
- Meneame
- Amazon
- Yahoo Mail
- AOL
- Newsvine
- HackerNews
- Evernote
- MySpace
- Mail.ru
- Viadeo
- Line
- Comments
- Yummly
- SMS
- Telegram
- Kakao
- LiveJournal
- Yammer
- Edgar
- Fintel
- Instapaper
- Copy Link
- Mix
- 46shares
From The Same Category
You Might Also Like
Food Industry- Historical review
Cancer, The Forbidden Cures- Krebiozen
Cause of Obesity- Maladaptation or addiction
Vitamin D deficiency- Risk Factors
Diabetes causes and saturated fat- The vegan argument
Vitamin D deficiency- The optimization strategies
Cancer, The Forbidden Cures- Immuno-augmentative therapy (IAT)
Raw food diet- The evolutionary perspective
Adventist Health Study- The vegan argument
The McGovern Report- Special Interest and The Suppression of Science

Medical Disclaimer
GoVeganWay.com brings you reviews of the latest nutrition and health-related research. The information provided represents the personal opinion of the author and is not intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The information provided is for informational purposes only and is not intended to serve as a substitute for the consultation, diagnosis, and/or medical treatment of a qualified physician or healthcare provider.NEVER DISREGARD PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE OR DELAY SEEKING MEDICAL TREATMENT BECAUSE OF SOMETHING YOU HAVE READ ON OR ACCESSED THROUGH GoVeganWay.com
NEVER APPLY ANY LIFESTYLE CHANGES OR ANY CHANGES AT ALL AS A CONSEQUENCE OF SOMETHING YOU HAVE READ IN GoVeganWay.com BEFORE CONSULTING LICENCED MEDICAL PRACTITIONER.
In the event of a medical emergency, call a doctor or 911 immediately. GoVeganWay.com does not recommend or endorse any specific groups, organizations, tests, physicians, products, procedures, opinions, or other information that may be mentioned inside.
Around The Web,
Medicine
Around The Web,
Medicine
-
Is At-Home Teeth Whitening Safe?
by Harmeet Gurm (Medical News Bulletin) on January 27, 2023
Medical News Bulletin – Daily Medical News, Health News, Clinical Trials And Clinical Research, Medical Technology, Fitness And Nutrition News–In One Place The desire to whiten teeth has existed for over a century, with hydrogen peroxide being the go-to whitening agent.1 In cosmetic dentistry, teeth whitening is one of the most popular practices.1 Hydrogen peroxide is used in dental offices […]
-
Cardamom and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
by Alana Stilla (Medical News Bulletin) on January 25, 2023
Medical News Bulletin – Daily Medical News, Health News, Clinical Trials And Clinical Research, Medical Technology, Fitness And Nutrition News–In One Place Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a disorder affecting one in ten people assigned female at birth who are of childbearing age.1 PCOS is also a condition related to gender identity and gender expression, with a prevalence of PCOS in […]
-
Evolving Plastic Surgery
by Sponsored Article (Medical News Bulletin) on January 24, 2023
Medical News Bulletin – Daily Medical News, Health News, Clinical Trials And Clinical Research, Medical Technology, Fitness And Nutrition News–In One Place What is Plastic Surgery? Plastic surgery is an increasingly common practice; often for the positive impact, it can have on one’s mental health. For some individuals, plastic surgery has helped address physical concerns or insecurities that […]
-
What 2022 Taught About Stroke Treatment
by Marianne Polvorosa (Medical News Bulletin) on January 23, 2023
Medical News Bulletin – Daily Medical News, Health News, Clinical Trials And Clinical Research, Medical Technology, Fitness And Nutrition News–In One Place Stroke statistics are scary. Stroke is a leading cause of disability and death, and 2022 has taught us that there is a need for stroke research for better preventive measures, rehabilitation, and stroke treatment options.1,2 Defining stroke […]
-
Joke Of The Day
by Medical News Bulletin (Medical News Bulletin) on January 20, 2023
Medical News Bulletin – Daily Medical News, Health News, Clinical Trials And Clinical Research, Medical Technology, Fitness And Nutrition News–In One Place Reporter to the doctor: During these pressing times where there are healthcare crises everywhere, you seem so together, so calm. What is your secret? Doctor to the reporter: No secret really. I have a lot of patients. The post Joke Of The […]
-
Benefits of Collagen Hydrolysate Backed by Science
by Sponsored Article (Medical News Bulletin) on January 19, 2023
Medical News Bulletin – Daily Medical News, Health News, Clinical Trials And Clinical Research, Medical Technology, Fitness And Nutrition News–In One Place Introduction Our bodies contain a lot of collagen, a protein essential for our connective tissues (think cartilage, ligaments, and skin). The most vital components of your body, such as your skin and bones, are given structure by a […]
-
Can Writing Help with Mental Health Improvement?
by Sponsored Article (Medical News Bulletin) on January 19, 2023
Medical News Bulletin – Daily Medical News, Health News, Clinical Trials And Clinical Research, Medical Technology, Fitness And Nutrition News–In One Place Writing has a healing effect on our mental health. It is one of the easiest and most accessible ways to learn more about yourself, deal with past traumas, and gain valuable insights into your life without even turning to professional help. […]
-
A Superfood to Fight Disease?
by Harmeet Gurm (Medical News Bulletin) on January 18, 2023
Medical News Bulletin – Daily Medical News, Health News, Clinical Trials And Clinical Research, Medical Technology, Fitness And Nutrition News–In One Place Widely regarded as a superfood, pomegranate is a vibrant red fruit linked to health and wellness. But can pomegranates help fight disease?1,2 The benefits of pomegranates are attributed to their high levels of antioxidants, even beating […]
Latest from PubMed,
#plant-based diet
-
Phosphate Intake and Removal in Predominantly Vegetarian Patients on Twice-Weekly Hemodialysis
by Namrata Sarvepalli Rao on January 27, 2023
-
Self-care and lifestyle interventions of complementary and integrative medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic-A cross-sectional study
by Michael Jeitler on January 26, 2023
-
Use of male-to-female sex reversal as a welfare scoring system in the protandrous farmed gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata)
by Paul G Holhorea on January 26, 2023
-
The effect of diet quality on the risk of developing gestational diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta-analysis
by Xiaoxia Gao on January 26, 2023
-
The Climate Change Challenge: How to get research into society through an online workshop
by Laura Müller on January 26, 2023
-
Associations of dietary patterns with obesity and weight change for adults aged 18-65 years: Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS)
by Yang Chen on January 25, 2023
-
Two a posteriori dietary patterns are associated with risks of hyperuricemia among adults in less-developed multiethnic regions in Southwest China
by Xinyu Wu on January 25, 2023
-
Buffalo milk and rumen fluid metabolome are significantly affected by green feed
by G Neglia on January 25, 2023
-
Metabolic and nutritional biomarkers in adults consuming lacto-ovo vegetarian, vegan and omnivorous diets in Spain. A cross-sectional study
by Elena García-Maldonado on January 23, 2023
-
Protein quality as a complementary functional unit in life cycle assessment (LCA)
by G A McAuliffe on January 23, 2023
-
NEW Soul in the neighborhood-reach and effectiveness of a dissemination and implementation feasibility study
by John A Bernhart on January 23, 2023
-
Interaction between genetics and inulin affects host metabolism in rainbow trout fed a sustainable all plant-based diet
by Jep Lokesh on January 23, 2023
-
Adherence to the EAT-Lancet diet, genetic susceptibility, and risk of type 2 diabetes in Swedish adults
by Shunming Zhang on January 22, 2023
-
Risks and Benefits of Different Dietary Patterns in CKD
by Shivam Joshi on January 22, 2023
-
Plant-based and vegetarian diets: an overview and definition of these dietary patterns
by Shila Minari Hargreaves on January 21, 2023
Latest Articles
Podcast of the day…
Plant Based News
-
Dublin Bus Adverts Promoting Veganism Spark Backlash From Politicians
el enero 27, 2023
-
192-Year-Old Luxury Retailer Harvey Nichols Finally Bans Fur
el enero 27, 2023
-
Cauldron Foods Is Now A Fully Vegan Brand
el enero 27, 2023
-
‘The Last Of Us’ Star Bella Ramsey Is An Outspoken Advocate For Veganism
el enero 27, 2023
-
‘Put Zebra Meat On The Menu in South Africa,’ Say Scientists
el enero 27, 2023
-
LinkedIn Headquarters Goes Mostly Plant-Based To Reduce Carbon Footprint
el enero 26, 2023
-
‘Pet’ Tiger Killed After Escaping Enclosure And Attacking Man In South Africa
el enero 26, 2023
Top Health News — ScienceDaily
- New test could detect Alzheimer’s disease 3.5 years before clinical diagnosison January 27, 2023
New research has established a blood-based test that could be used to predict the risk of Alzheimer’s disease up to 3.5 years before clinical diagnosis.
- Most U.S. children use potentially toxic makeup products, often during playon January 26, 2023
Scientists found that most children in the United States use makeup and body products that may contain carcinogens and other toxic chemicals.
- New AI tool makes speedy gene-editing possibleon January 26, 2023
An artificial intelligence program may enable the first simple production of customizable proteins called zinc fingers to treat diseases by turning genes on and off. The researchers who designed the tool say it promises […]
- AI technology generates original proteins from scratchon January 26, 2023
Scientists have created an AI system capable of generating artificial enzymes from scratch. In laboratory tests, some of these enzymes worked as well as those found in nature, even when their artificially generated […]
- Artificial human skin paves the way to new skin cancer therapyon January 26, 2023
In a new study, researchers have managed to curb skin cancer. The study was conducted on artificial human skin.
- Body phenotypes say a lot, but not everything, about a person’s healthon January 25, 2023
Researchers studying body phenotypes — the observable characteristics like height, behavior, appearance and more measurables — found that regardless of the muscle they had, high levels of fat mass in an individual […]
- Supplementation with amino acid serine eases neuropathy in diabetic miceon January 25, 2023
The study adds to growing evidence that some often-underappreciated, ‘non-essential’ amino acids play important roles in the nervous system. The findings may provide a new way to identify people at high risk for […]

PubMed, #vegan-diet
-
Metabolic and nutritional biomarkers in adults consuming lacto-ovo vegetarian, vegan and omnivorous diets in Spain. A…
on January 23, 2023
-
NEW Soul in the neighborhood-reach and effectiveness of a dissemination and implementation feasibility study
on January 23, 2023
-
Comparison of sensitivity to taste and astringency stimuli among vegans and omnivores
on January 22, 2023
-
Protective Effect of Vegan Microbiota on Liver Steatosis Is Conveyed by Dietary Fiber: Implications for Fecal…
on January 21, 2023
-
Plant-based and vegetarian diets: an overview and definition of these dietary patterns
on January 21, 2023