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Some 7th millennium BCE pottery fragments found in Turkey still contain telltale residues of the cheese and butter they held.
One study estimates that 26% of black carbon emissions are from stoves for heating and cooking, with more than 40% of this amount from wood burning, roughly 20% from coal, 19% from crop residues, and 10% from dung.
Both processes leave toxic residues and somewhat less oily dirt.
Today, Catholic and Islamic countries, as well as former French, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies, all of which tend to have Corporatist institutional residues, also correlate with depressed living standards.
And 60% of the total deaths reflect the burning of biomass (such as animal dung and crop residues) for cooking and heating, which has no relation to either fossil fuels or global warming.
The bottom line is that natural chemicals are just as likely as synthetic versions to test positive in animal cancer studies, and “at the low doses of most human exposures, the comparative hazards of synthetic pesticide residues are insignificant.”
The strength of evidence and the potential magnitude of harm greatly exceed those of food contaminants or pesticide residues, which are appropriately regulated to very low levels.
Although some national regulators are increasingly concerned about the health risks arising from pesticide residues in food, governments everywhere underestimate these products’ effect on non-target organisms.
For starters, we have trained farmers how to improve their soil by expanding legume crops, the residues of which can be used as goat fodder.