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Pesticide residues in the U.S. diet supplied by the following foods
Meat | 55% |
Dairy | 23% |
Vegetables | 6% |
Fruits | 4% |
Grains | 1% |
Percentage of mother's milk containing significant levels of DDT
General Population | 99% |
Vegetarians | 8% |
Relative pesticide contamination in breast milk of meat-eating mothers compared vegetarian mothers: 35 times as high
Sterility
Percentage of male college students sterile
1950 | .5% |
1978 | 25% |
Sperm count of an average American male compared to 30 years ago: 30% down
The principal reason for sterility and sperm count reduction in U.S. males: Chlorinate hydrocarbon pesticides including Dioxin, DDT, etc.
The percentage of chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticide residues in American diet attributed to meats, dairy, fish and eggs: 94%
Source" http://www.sierraclub.org/sustainable_consumption/articles/worldhunger.PDF