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    Default neonics not just bad for bees?

    Pesticides may harm growing brains http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25421199

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    Fortunately, newborn mammals (other than lab rats) tend to get all their early nutrition from their mothers' milk. Should be quite some time before human babies are exposed to OSR/maize/whatever containing even the tiniest amounts of pesticide, by which time their brains are unlikely to be affected.

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    Apparently there is a lot of arsenic in rice
    Whatever you do don't eat the healthy brown rice most of it is in the husk
    http://www.nhs.uk/news/2008/04April/...nbabyrice.aspx

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