Because of the intrusive farming methods that we have used in the past years, today, exposure to chemicals begins in the womb itself. Cord blood brings not only nutrients and oxygen to the developing child, but also many potentially harmful chemicals including mercury, contaminants from flame retardants, Teflon, organochlorine pesticides, food wraps, wood preservatives and varnishes, by-products of plastic production, and industrial insulators and lubricants.
Pesticides also contain various persistent organic pollutants (POPs) that rather than being flushed out of our bodies, attach themselves to fatty tissues in humans and accumulate. Those fatty tissues are a source of nutrients for mother's milk, so as a mother's body calls on its reserves of fat for lactation, the pollutants go along for the ride, invading mother's milk, and in turn, the baby.
All this exposure to pesticides puts an entire generation ahead of us at serious health risk and switching to an organic diet significantly reduces this pre-natal and neonatal exposure to harmful chemicals.
