<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b412ccd2-90ef-4e34-9dff-99c34e2808dd/EAF694E8-C404-4A3A-B32D-71154B1576F5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newint.org/issue323/apple.htm" href="http://www.newint.org/issue323/apple.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newint.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newint.org/issue323/apple.htm"><B><FONT size="2"> H is for Honey</FONT></B><FONT size="2"><FONT size="1"> Bees</FONT></FONT><FONT size="1"> </FONT>are severely affected by extensive pesticide use. Pyrethroids and organophosphates are toxic to bees, attacking their nervous system. French beekeepers believe that the insectide imidacloprid may explain the drastic decline of the French bee population since 1993. In some areas honey production has fallen by 60 per cent. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newint.org/issue323/apple.htm"><B><FONT size="2">I is for Ice-cream </FONT></B> Dairy products are the main dietary source of organochlorine residues. In 1988 in the UK organochlorine residues were found in 44 per cent of 120 samples of milk. Cattle may be exposed to pesticides in grass and other fodder crops treated deliberately with herbicides or through the chemicals drifting in the air. In June 1999 Korea rejected Australian<FONT size="2"><FONT size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><B><FONT size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size="2"><FONT size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><IMG width="263" height="185" align="left" src="http://www.newint.org/issue323/../ni_pix/transparent.gif" /></FONT></FONT></FONT></B></FONT></FONT> beef on the grounds that it was contaminated with endosulfan which is widely sprayed on cotton (see <A href="http://www.newint.org/issue323/tales.htm">Cotton tales</A>). <FONT size="2"><FONT size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><B><FONT size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size="2"></FONT></FONT></B></FONT></FONT>A seven-year study of pesticides in Indian milk found a high proportion with residues above safe levels.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EAF694E8-C404-4A3A-B32D-71154B1576F5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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