#nationalregenerativeagricultureday2023
IF IT'S NOT ORGANIC
OR REGENERATIVE
OF THE AUSTRALIAN
FOOD-CHAIN IS POISONED
BY AGRICULTURAL
CHEMICALS
100%
THERE ARE LITTLE OR NO STUDIES EXAMINING THE
LONG-TERM IMPACT OF THESE DAILY TOXINS.
NRAD is initiating a powerful Alliance to create a national food strategy and provide alternative soilutions for farmers, politicians and councils to create an enduring ban on pesticides.
THE NATIONAL REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE DAY
ABOUT NRAD 2023
The National Regenerative Agriculture Day (NRAD) is a celebration of Regenerative Agriculture and it is our mission to heal the heart of the food-chain. NRAD is an initiative by Social Impact Organisation Carbon8. Carbon8 supports farmers to transition to regenerative agriculture. You can find us at www.carbon8.org.au.
NRAD 2023 exposes the #SERIOUSDIRT on the chemicals used in our food-chain and shares personal stories of people directly affected by these commonly used chemicals regarded as ‘normal’ in industrial food production systems.
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PESTICIDE
/ˈpɛstɪsʌɪd/
noun
Pesticides are used to prevent, destroy, or reduce the spread of pests. Though often misunderstood to refer only to insecticides (against insects), the term pesticide also applies to herbicides (against weeds), bactericides (against bacteria), fungicides (against fungi) and various other substances used to control pests.
EVERY
PERSON
on the planet is affected by a worldwide deluge of man-made chemicals and pollutants - many of which have never been tested for safety.
In Australia, more than 144 agricultural chemicals banned in the EU and the USA, are currently in use. The government continues to support a model of industrial scale farming which is reliant on pesticides, herbicides and toxic chemicals all of which end up in the food chain. This has meant that much of the food we grow (particularly fruit and vegetables but also meat, dairy and cereals such as wheat) contains residues of multiple pesticides and the number of different chemicals being used is rising.
These inadequately (if at all) tested poisons have contaminated much of our soil and water and devastated ecological systems.
Years of research and evidence link these poisons to many chronic illnesses including cancers, Parkinson’s, asthma, depression, leaky-gut and innumerable, preventable auto-immune and non-communicable diseases. Everyone is constantly exposed to agricultural chemicals through what we eat, spraying on farms and by local councils in urban spaces. Could it be the most celebrated healthy diet of fruit and vegetables is now the most toxic diet for consumers?
HIGHLY HAZARDOUS PESTICIDES
AUSTRALIA’S USE IS
ALMOST DOUBLE THE
AMOUNT WHICH IS
PERMITTED FOR USE
IN THE REST OF
THE WORLD.
#SERIOUSDIRT
“The Australian system has no set time period for reviewing pesticides approvals, meaning that they can remain in use indefinitely once authorised. As a result, pesticides that have been shown to cause harm can continue to be used for many years. More so while countries like the UK authorised just four organophosphate pesticides, Australia authorised thirty-three.
“It is now estimated that we spray more than 4.5 billion pounds of glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup) into the soils, plants, and water systems of our planet. And there are now dozens of genetically modified plant species around the world which have allowed chemical companies to develop a seemingly infinite market for their weedkillers.”
Name, Title
Zach Bush MD
“Grapes from Australia are allowed to contain 200 times the amount of the insecticide methomyl than their UK equivalent. Methomyl is a suspected endocrine disrupting chemical (EDC) which means that it is capable of interfering with hormone systems. It is also a classified as a cholinesterase inhibitor and has the potential to impair the respiratory system.”
The Australian regulatory system is woefully inadequate in terms of ensuring protection from these poisons. The Australian Pesticide and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) authorises the use of products to be used in agriculture and animal production, yet this agency is
not accountable for any deleterious outcomes from them.
BUT IT DOESN’T HAVE
TO BE LIKE
THIS
AUSTRALIA AUTHORISES
PESTICIDE PRODUCTS
TO THE UK'S 2,900
8,000
THERE ARE
ALTERNATIVES
OUR THREE YEAR STRATEGY
NRAD is delivering a three year awareness campaign on the unregulated use of pesticides and toxic chemicals in our food-chain which seriously impacts our health and wellbeing.
2023
AWARENESS
Create a national campaign to make information available and accessible to every Australian. This has not been achieved in Australia until now.
2024
ALTERNATIVES
Deliver the first ever Australian solutions program to support new alternatives to chemicals.
2025
DELIVER A NATIONAL FOOD STRATEGY
Establish a pesticide ban that endures: from farms to supermarkets, parks to playgrounds, housing estates to community gardens.
Join The Alliance Against Pesticides
Join our email list and get informed about what is being sprayed on your food and what alternatives are available for consumers and families.
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