Toxification

Industrial Agriculture is really pretty new. In fact, the sort of corporate, public-company mega corporation phenomenon is pretty new too. It's probably less than 100 years old. My great-grandmother who I knew as a kid into my young-adult life was several years older than mega-corporate world, for example.

Industrial Agriculture uses large machines and liberal application of pesticides and herbicides and GMOs to produce the food for masses of people. It's ostensibly "cheaper" and more "efficient" than the more traditional methods--which had their own problems.

One of the main problems with industrial agriculture is that the liberal use of pesticides and herbicides involves hosing down vast acreage with petrochemicals. Those chemicals are deemed safe at certain concentrations and the residue of those chemicals ends up in food. For example, glyphosate is present in many breakfast cereals and things like bread and bagels. It's on straw and hay, too. It gets eaten by horses and cows, etc... It becomes pervasive.

So, rather than a one time exposure at a low concentration, a person might end up with constant exposure. Does that shit build up in people's bodies and concentrate in various organs or in fatty tissue? Idk.

Also, various unintended, or unexpected channels to brew those low levels of toxin into high levels in various locations. I wonder if that's one of the causes of things like diseases that are cropping up in birds lately.

Anyway, we're reaching the end of the road on this iteration of civilization. One of the main problems is the very people who brewed up the systems that produce this pollution are the ones people will follow to "fix" the problems. That's pretty stupid.