A previous article informed us of the scandal of the presence of a radioactive element, 210Po, in tobacco.
This radioactive element actually comes, according to Le Figaro, from phosphate fertilizers extracted from apatite mines, a rock that contains radium and polonium.
These products are also the synthetic fertilizers commonly used in conventional agriculture.
This discovery made by tobacco manufacturers for several decades has however been hidden until then from the general public to protect the interests of their industry.
However, it also concerns all of agriculture and also our food!
The information is enormous and has only just come out.
If a dangerous radioactive element is present in tobacco crops at the rate of 0,01 becquerel per gram of tobacco, and what was known as early as 1960 by tobacco manufacturers like Philip Morris, other agricultural crops that also use fertilizers phosphates also contain this radioactive element.
It also appears that the tobacco industry lied in 1997 by declaring that it did not know that polonium was in the leaves of their tobacco, when the latter was probably aware for several decades!
Industrial phosphate fertilizers are synthetic fertilizers produced by the reaction of an acid with an ore.
They are commonly used in agriculture, but prohibited in organic farming.
The plant absorbs phosphate and other elements necessary for its growth by the roots.
The radioactive polonium deposited in the soil is thus absorbed by the plant and is then found in the plant tissue itself.
According to the Canadian Department of Agriculture, phosphate is used in agriculture because phosphorus is necessary for the proliferation of roots and the early ripening of fruits, especially cereals.
Also, seeds and fruits contain large amounts of phosphorus.
It is more than obvious that, if tobacco is contaminated with radioactive polonium due to the use of phosphate, the whole diet of conventional agriculture is also and significantly.
According to a document dating from 1970, Philip Morris indicated that the use of a solvent to clean the tobacco leaves would only reduce by 10 to 40% the amount of polonium in the tobacco leaves.
Suffice to say that, even when washing vegetables grown conventionally, they also contain a significant amount of this dangerous radioactive element.
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