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Help us fight for the future of our children and the regeneration of our country.
If its not organic or regenerative
100%
of the Australian food chain is poisoned by agricultural chemicals
There are little to no studies examining the long-term impact of these daily toxins
The National Regenerative Agriculture Day (NRAD) is a celebration of Regenerative Agriculture and it is our mission to heal the heart of the food-chain. NRAD is an initiative by Social Impact Organisation Carbon8.
NRAD exposes the #SERIOUSDIRT on the chemicals used in our food-chain and shares personal stories of people directly affected by these commonly used chemicals regarded as ‘normal’ in industrial food production systems.
Doco's on Pesticides
The Worm is Turning
"a film that connects the dots on global food issues"
THE WORM IS TURNING tells the story of how corporate agribusiness is taking over the world's food production in the name of 'efficiency' and 'feeding a starving world' - while actually destroying economies, people's health, and the ecology of the world.
Toxic Valley
"The government turns a blind eye, allowing the influential factory owners to violate all regulations"
From India to Australia Toxic Valley explores the environmental, personal and corporate impacts that define the use and management of agrochemicals worldwide. In telling the stories of victims of pesticide poisoning and farming communities the film explores the politics of agrochemical dependency.
WE ARE MAKING A DOCUMENTARY
Vegetable Disclosure will be a hard-hitting, uncensored documentary that embarks on an unprecedented journey to expose the deep-rooted corruption and toxicity plaguing our global food system.
We know there is a hidden agenda behind the corruption of our food chain, and we intend to unravel it. Through an Australian-centric lens, we will uncover how agricultural toxins, regulatory complacency, and corporate agendas are designed to protect the poison, not the ones being poisoned at every step.
Every Person
on the planet is affected by a worldwide deluge of man-made chemicals and pollutants - many of which have never been tested for safety
In Australia, more than 144 agricultural chemicals banned in the EU and the USA, are currently in use. The government continues to support a model of industrial scale farming which is reliant on pesticides, herbicides and toxic chemicals all of which end up in the food chain. This has meant that much of the food we grow (particularly fruit and vegetables but also meat, dairy and cereals such as wheat) contains residues of multiple pesticides and the number of different chemicals being used is rising.
These inadequately (if at all) tested poisons have contaminated much of our soil and water and devastated ecological systems.
Years of research and evidence link these poisons to many chronic illnesses including cancers, Parkinson’s, asthma, depression, leaky-gut and innumerable, preventable auto-immune and non-communicable diseases. Everyone is constantly exposed to agricultural chemicals through what we eat, spraying on farms and by local councils in urban spaces. Could it be the most celebrated healthy diet of fruit and vegetables is now the most toxic diet for consumers?
HIGHLY HAZARDOUS PESTICIDES
AUSTRALIA’S USE IS ALMOST DOUBLE THE AMOUNT WHICH IS PERMITTED FOR USE IN THE REST OF THE WORLD.
The Australian system has no set time period for reviewing pesticides approvals, meaning that they can remain in use indefinitely once authorised. As a result, pesticides that have been shown to cause harm can continue to be used for many years. More so while countries like the UK authorised just four organophosphate pesticides, Australia authorised thirty-three.
An Australian apple can contain 100X the amount of fenitrothion (pesticide/ insecticide) compared to a UK apple. Fenitrothion is classified as a suspected endocrine disruptor (EDC—deals with your body's hormones) and cholinesterase inhibitor (deals with neurotransmitters in the brain).
Grapes from Australia are allowed to contain 200 times the amount of the insecticide methomyl than their UK equivalent. Methomyl is a suspected endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC), which means that it is capable of interfering with hormone systems. It is also classified as a cholinesterase inhibitor and has the potential to impair the respiratory system.
It is now estimated that we spray more than 4.5 billion pounds of glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup) into the soils, plants, and water systems of our planet. And there are now dozens of genetically modified plant species around the world which have allowed chemical companies to develop a seemingly infinite market for their weedkillers.
Zac Bush MD