" Let food be your medicine & medicine your food."

Post war use of first generation pesticides were mostly highly toxic compounds, such as arsenic and hydrogen cyanide,
their use was largely abandoned because they were either ineffective over time or too toxic.

The first important synthetic organic pesticide was a chlorinated hydrocarbon, DDT. Discovered in 1939 by a Swiss chemist Paul Muller, in 1948, Muller was awarded the Nobel Prize. DDT was also used for many non-agricultural applications, It was used for human delousing of soldiers coming home from World War II, and used to control mosquitoes in residential areas. It was hailed as a miracle for its easy application and seemingly inert action to other than pests. It was toxic to wide range of insect pests but seemed to have a low toxicity to mammals, it didn't break down rapidly in the environment and it was insoluble, meaning it didn't wash off by the rain and it was cheap. DDT treated crops yields increased, malaria was brought under control, pests were brought under control, DDT, was hailed by some as "magic!"

Thank goodness not by all, when Rachel Carson, published her book "Silent Spring" in 1962, attitudes began to change and enthusiasm for pesticides began to be viewed through a different lens. Rachel Carson, a writer, scientist and ecologist, grew up simply in the rural river town of Springdale, Pennsylvania. Her mother bequeathed to her a life-long love of nature and the living world that Rachel expressed first as a writer and later as a student of marine biology. Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham College) in 1929, studied at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and received her MA in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932. She was focusing on the chlorinated hydrocarbons, such as DDT, and pointed to evidence linking them to death of nontarget creatures (organisms other than those that the pesticide is intended to kill), such as birds. She issued grave warnings about pesticides, and predicted massive destruction of the planet's fragile ecosystems unless more was done to halt what she called the "rain of chemicals." This book woke up the public's concern and in retrospect launched the environmental movement.

Now we have something new that has been introduced into our environment, GMO, Genetically Modified Organisms, and
GE food, Genetically Engineered. Disregarding the basic laws of nature, scientists crossbreed plants to animals, fungus, parasites, viruses,anti-biotics, petro-chemical fertilizers, fungicides and herbicides -- then they bombard the specimen with different radiation techniques to create GMO's, creating something that cannot be recognized by Mother Nature, as plant or animal, which people refer to as Frankenfoods! Industry disclosures reveal that 60 to 70% of all non-organic supermarket food now test positive for the inclusion of genetically engineered ingredients.

" Let food be your medicine & medicine your food." These were the words of Hippocrates, the “Father of Medicine,” in 400 B.C.