“With chemicals, it’s shoot first and ask questions later.”

Before Alar, there was EDB, a potent human carcinogen allowed in the grain supply and other food for more than a decade after it was known to be dangerous.

Trust the government? Why should we?

Yet is still allowed in potatoes and bananas at levels exposing up to 80,000 children a day to what EPA itself says are unacceptable high risks.

The reality of life is that we are exposed to a multiplicity of toxic substances.

There was heptachlor, linked to leukemia, and aldicarb, which poisoned thousands of California watermelons.