10/07/2015
To those who live in a farm community:
"Because Lancaster County is an agricultural area, Swartz said that threats from pesticides are much greater.
“There are huge fields sprayed with pesticides that are near areas where children play,” she said.
To drive home the health dangers of pesticides, GMO Free Lancaster organized to test the breast milk of 50 mothers in the county for residues of glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide. The highest level detected so far is 91 parts per billion in a mother who lives on a conventional farm where glyphosate is used. Sadly, the mother has an infant child with neuroblastoma, a form of cancer that affects young children.
GMO Free Lancaster hopes the test results will encourage Lancaster’s city leaders to take action.
“We hope the breast milk test will compel people to support the ban,” Swartz said. “We want to ban GMOs and associated chemicals starting with Lancaster city and then moving forward into the county.”
http://ecowatch.com/2015/10/07/ban-gmos-pesticides-lancaster/
Dan Hinkle’s concern about GMOs led him to become a founding member of GMO Free Lancaster, a group that working to ban GMOs and pesticides in Lancaster County