Poisoning the Nation!
Poisoning the Nation!
This was something I wanted to write but kept postponing for more than 5 years after my first entry into minor scientific and environmentally friendly writing.
However the ideas dates back to my medical students days.
I was convinced the Mahavali River water was contaminated from its origin not only from biological agents but form pesticides that originate form tea plantation.
The amount of dog’s shit that get washed away to the river is colossal and that alone is enough to prove my point but amount man’s shit goes parallel and almost doubled or trebled that since the rough ratio to dog to man in Sri-Lanka is 1 to 7 (ratio).
This is not about dog shit but how our agrarians poison us almost daily.
There is no food in the market which is not contaminated but there is no machinery to monitor the extent of this man made disaster since our legislation is to weak to regulate the use of artificial in gradients.
The biggest culprit was WHO who for three to four decades sprayed the enter country with DDT to fatten the coffers of American Companies which produce (they blame only Iraq and and did not find a trace) all the nasty chemicals yo test on the poor countries.
That menace is gone to some extent but our Agriculture Ministry has taken over the responsibility of poisoning our masses by default of not monitoring or regulating the use of poisons.
My friend in the University and almost my name sake was able to prove that cadmium was the cause of renal diseases prevalent in the North and North Central but both the WHO experts and the local medical experts failed to see this since renal disease is big money and a Kidney is priced at half to one million now.
If one take two kidneys from an innocent refugee it is almost two millions.
This probably happened during the war time.
The kidneys were not a problem then but it is a problem now.
One of my friends who was abroad tells me doctors there removed his normal kidney leaving his half normal kidney to survive.
I can remember in my internship my consultant removed the Normal Kidney of a woman and went on for one week of holiday and I had to look after her till her death.
Since I was an intern I could not do anything.
Bound by ethics!
That is one reason, I did not take up Surgery which I loved as a medical student but ended up as a pathologist to see what went wrong after the event.
The poisons in our food is too numerous to list but at least it is my responsibility to make people aware.
I should end up with a little note of our drug industry.
The number one poison in the list is alcohol.
For many reasons.
1. It is a universal cell poison.
2. It is a good solvent and dissolve all other poisons and act as a vehicle for poisons.
3. Third is that alcohol is adulterer with methyl alcohol to a large extent which causes blindness.
4. Most of our children’s syrups and vitamins are not water based but alcohol based.
5. There is no way to regulate consumption of illicit (almost legal in this country) alcohol.
Just today I went to buy some vitamin syrup for an adult.
This particular one needed alcohol free syrup.
Having checked over 20 I could not find a single bottle that had a label to say what is the solvent used.
They should label them as alcohol based or water based.
I had to buy (just guess work) two and at home opened and taste them to see which had alcohol.
One was alcohol based other was not alcohol based but expensive.
This is a primitive experiment in a country where we have not produced a Nobel Prize winning scientist.
That is why I drink only wine now even though they very are expensive.
What is the hell the Health Department doing to regulate that issue?
They have one priority.
That is dengue.
The have no priority to check all the poisons and the labels in food and drugs industry (that are imported to this country).
This include our chille powder. One Brand I tasted was totally poisoned may be with Gadol.
Anybody who has money and connection can import anything to this liberal and liberated society.
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