Agricultural Chemicals

One of Aajonus's most sustained and specific arguments about agricultural chemicals concerned the corruption of the word "organic" by the FDA. He described a gradual expansion of allowable chemical content in foods labeled organic, saying that thirty years before he was speaking, no substance without a food name could appear in any agricultural product. Over time, that limit moved upward in steps: first to 2 percent, then 4 percent, then 7 percent, then 10 percent, then 15 percent, with industry pressure to raise it further each time. He stated that by the time of his workshops, a product could contain up to 15 percent of what he called "the worst chemicals, even malathion" and still be legally sold as organic.

He described petroleum wax and paraffin being sprayed on the skins of thin-skinned fruits including cucumbers, apples, pears, and zucchini. He said that twenty years before he was speaking, the legal limit for this wax application was 5 percent; by the time of his workshops it had reached 15 percent. His practical instruction from this was to peel all thin-skinned fruits, including cucumbers, apples, and pears, because the wax coating was a petroleum product regardless of what the organic label said. He personally smelled petroleum on waxed produce labeled organic at Whole Foods and challenged the produce staff about it.

He stated that the word "organic" itself had been taken over by the FDA in the mid-1970s and that because it was a single common word it could not be trademarked by any individual or company. His response was to create and trademark two specific compound labels: "BioEcho Organic" and "EcoBioOrganic." He described these as the only labels that could guarantee zero chemical inputs of any kind, including gibberellic acid derived from rice bran, which he considered a chemical once extracted from its food source. He specified that the only permissible inputs under BioEcho Organic were manure, urine, and compost.

He recounted discovering that even Horizon organic milk had been caught mixing conventionally produced milk, including milk from cows treated with rBGH, into its organic product, with the company defending the practice by saying it was "just a small amount." He compared this logic directly to the FDA's position that 15 percent petroleum wax on organic produce was acceptable.

Aajonus named specific agricultural and food-processing chemicals throughout his teaching, often with precise descriptions of their origins, uses, and effects on the body.

Malathion he cited as one of the chemicals that could legally appear in organic produce at up to 15 percent concentration under FDA rules. He used it as an example of "the worst chemicals" that were being permitted under the organic label.

Gibberellic acid, derived from rice bran, he described as being used in so-called organic food processing. His position was that once a substance is extracted from its food source, it becomes a chemical regardless of its natural origin, and therefore gibberellic acid used as a food additive or processing agent was not organic.

The dithiocarbamate fungicides, including mancozeb, metiram, zineb, and ziram, he described as producing a metabolite called ethylene thiourea (ETU) that was a known endocrine disruptor, carcinogen, mutagen, and teratogen. He specified that this breakdown product became more concentrated when food containing it was cooked. He stated that in New Zealand, over 60 percent of 138 samples of fruits and vegetables tested contained dithiocarbamates. He listed the seventeen most heavily contaminated foods in order: broccoli, cabbage, tomato, celery, lettuce, onion, cucumber, apple, orange, mushroom, potato, courgette, kumara, nectarine, pear, capsicum, and kiwifruit. He noted that contamination levels were worse in the United States because more chemicals were used there.

Arsenic he addressed extensively in connection with poultry production. He stated that for many decades chicken farmers had been feeding arsenic to chickens to hasten and increase growth and to conceal symptoms of disease during the youthful stages of chicken development. He cited the figure that of 8.7 billion American broiler chickens produced each year, at least 70 percent had been fed arsenic. He said arsenic causes cancer even at low levels currently found in the environment and contributes to diabetes, heart disease, and decline of mental function. He noted that the EPA had finally lowered its arsenic drinking-water standard fivefold in 2001, describing the previous standard as long-outdated.

Kerosene derivatives he described as being used to process soy into a form edible by poultry and humans, since raw soy in its unprocessed form is, in his words, deadly to humans and birds. He said the beans had to be bathed in acidic baths and heated at extreme temperatures, then spray-dried with nitrates to produce protein powder. He cited Dr. Jonathan V. Wright, MD, on nitrates having been known for decades to cause cancer, while noting that the FDA still permitted them in many foods. He said soy also contained phytoestrogens, IGg, and trypsin inhibitor that had caused cancers and inhibited growth in hundreds of animals. His position was that any product containing soy, regardless of whether it was labeled organic, had been processed with kerosene derivatives and was therefore chemical, not organic.

Benzene he identified as present in soft drinks, describing it as providing "a little zing" while causing addiction and cancer. He said the FDA had informed soda companies they needed to remove it but issued no mandate, and that a whistleblower subsequently tested soda companies and found benzene still present.

Barium and aluminum he identified as being dropped from aircraft in chemtrails, describing barium as a neurotoxin that the FDA's own research showed caused paralysis and death in animals with existing heart disease, while the agency worded its findings to minimize apparent danger. He explained that the military used aluminum to increase the explosive strength of gunpowder and that by saturating the environment with aluminum and barium, the government was depositing neurotoxins that accumulated preferentially in the brain and nervous system.

Chlorine and ammonia he described as industrial cleaning chemicals used inside meat processing facilities that contaminated meat directly, describing one case where a worker fell into a machine and died from chloroform produced by the combination of chlorine and ammonia in the processing system, with the contamination spreading into the meat supply.

PCBs and dioxins he described as arising from the plastic industry's effort to prevent mold in plastic products. He stated that one third of the entire land mass of the planet was already contaminated with these substances as of the time he was speaking, not counting the oceans.

Aajonus described the contamination of animal feed as a major route by which agricultural chemicals entered the human food supply even when people believed they were eating natural animal products. He stated that standard poultry feeds contained antibiotics, hormones, arsenic, and toxic soy protein. Antibiotics in feed he described as serving to suppress symptoms of disease and hide illness rather than cure it. Hormones and soy proteins were used to accelerate and increase growth.

He described Rosie Organic Chicken as a specific example of fraudulent organic labeling, stating that even though the soy fed to those chickens was organically grown, once the soy was processed with chemicals to make it edible and used as feed, the end product could not legitimately be called organic. He called this "not only a misnomer, it is an outright advertising fraud."

He described observing that the more soy in a chicken's diet, the blander and more unappealing the taste of the meat and eggs, and said that fifty years before his workshops, the population would have rejected such eggs and poultry outright. He contrasted this with poultry raised on corn and other grains, which he described as rich and healthy-tasting.

He tracked the feed sources of his own farmers actively, calling them to ask where they were sourcing their corn, oats, barley, and other feed inputs, and following the supply chain to verify whether those sources were actually chemical-free.

Aajonus described his personal method for testing whether food or animal feed was chemically contaminated without paying the full cost of comprehensive laboratory analysis. He said that full HCL testing ran between $6,000 and $10,000 per test, which was prohibitive. His approach was to test instead for the specific heavy metals that he said were reliably elevated in anything chemically produced: high cadmium, high mercury, and high lead. He stated that these metals are always present in anything chemically produced, so if those markers were elevated in a food or in an animal's tissue, he could infer that toxic chemicals were being fed to the animals, sprayed in their environment, or given to them directly.

He described a specific experiment he conducted with meat from a single animal raised on chemicals, hormones, and antibiotics. He took a London broil steak approximately two inches thick, cut portions from it, and gave portions to cats and dogs while eating some himself raw. He also had cooked portions given to other animals. He then tested the feces of all participants and measured the proportion of pesticides that had been absorbed and excreted, comparing the raw-fed animals and the raw-fed human to the cooked-fed animals. He did not report the full numerical results in the passages available but described the experiment as demonstrating that pesticide residues from chemical farming were present in muscle meat and were tracked through the digestive systems of all the participants.

Aajonus placed agricultural chemicals within a broader political and economic argument that he returned to repeatedly. He identified Gulf and Western as owning most of Dow's agriculture division, describing these as fundamentally chemical companies that had moved into food production with the intention of making all agriculture chemical. He said Monsanto, Dow, Gulf and Western, General Electric, and General Mills collectively represented an organized effort to eliminate natural farming entirely.

He described the specific mechanism by which this was pursued: manufactured disease scares. He stated that the fear of bacteria was cultivated to justify chemical treatments, the fear of parasites was cultivated to justify irradiation, and the fear of insects was cultivated to justify pesticides. Each of these fears, he argued, was promoted in coordination between the media, pharmaceutical industry, and agricultural chemical companies to move public opinion toward accepting chemical farming as necessary and natural farming as dangerous.

He described E. coli O157:H7 specifically as a toxin he believed was created for biological warfare and did not exist naturally even in feedlots, and said its promotion in the media served the purpose of building the case for outlawing manure as fertilizer. Without manure, natural fertilizer would be illegal, leaving Dow and Monsanto's synthetic chemicals as the only legal option. He referenced House Bill 778 as moving through Congress with language placing Monsanto and organic farming in the same legislation, which he described as evidence of how far the regulatory capture had progressed.

He described Monsanto's GMO crops as having proved less disease-resistant than natural crops in practice while requiring more chemicals, and said GMO plants produced new chemicals that caused allergies in humans who consumed them or their produce. He described a specific Canadian case in which Monsanto agents entered a farmer's land without permission or warrant to collect evidence that GMO pollen had drifted onto the farmer's crops, then sued the farmer for patent infringement. The farmer fought through the courts and eventually lost when the Canadian Supreme Court sided with Monsanto, costing the farmer enormous legal fees, his seed stock developed over years, and his rights to his own land and crops.

He described several companies, financed by NASA money from the U.S. government, growing meat in laboratories from animal tissue without whole animals, blood, breath, or exercise, and companies growing chemical food such as genetically modified antifreeze copied from a fish protein and incorporated into ice cream. He said the FDA was moving to approve cloned animals and their milk and meats.

Aajonus made the specific claim that nuclear waste was being incorporated into agricultural chemicals as a disposal mechanism, with the resulting products applied to crops everywhere on the planet. He said the military could add a specified percentage of nuclear waste to agricultural chemicals without any labeling requirement. He cited the fact that irradiation was being used on food and that Representative Randy Cunningham had removed funding for FDA studies on irradiation from the House version of the 2002 Appropriations Bill, leaving no unbiased research pathway for resolving the irradiation question. He also cited a legal requirement that the FDA use misleading language on irradiated food labels, meaning consumers would not be able to identify irradiated products.

Aajonus described the introduction of chemicals into agriculture as beginning at least as far back as 1886, which he identified as the year his great-grandparents, believing that the coming of Monsanto and industrial chemicals would destroy the safety of the food supply, began planning and building their own organic farm. He described his great-grandparents as having recognized the trajectory of chemical agriculture early and responding by attempting to establish food independence.

He described his own family history in Pennsylvania and the broader farming regions of Amish and Mennonite country as illustrating how thoroughly chemical agriculture had penetrated even traditionally conservative farming communities. He said that three months before speaking he had personally witnessed Amish farmers spraying pesticides on everything, with only small pockets of Amish farmers surrounded by chemically farming neighbors still maintaining traditional practices. He described finding non-chemically raised alfalfa and hay as nearly impossible to source, with the push from Monsanto and Dow having reached even those communities.

Aajonus gave several specific practical instructions for managing chemical exposure from agricultural sources.

He instructed listeners to peel all thin-skinned fruits, including cucumbers, apples, pears, and zucchini, because of the petroleum wax applied to their skins, even when labeled organic.

He described a protocol for washing berries in water with a touch of milk added, explaining that the milk arrested the poisons and kept them in the liquid rather than on the food. He said he would use the same water for washing berries for up to two weeks, watching for it to turn gray as a sign that it needed changing. He also mentioned using coconut cream and lime juice with fruit as part of managing the chemical load from sprayed produce.

He stated that when exposed to insecticides, such as the fumigation chemicals used in termite tenting, eating clay and cheese, not together, helped the body rid itself of insecticides. He specified Terramin or Terrasilk as the appropriate clays. He noted that a tented building remained hazardous until all surfaces, including ceilings and cupboards, were cleaned.

He recommended vegetable juice specifically for its alkalinizing effect in a chemically polluted environment, explaining that the alkaline minerals from green vegetable juice could bind with the acrid substances from pollution, medication, and chemical food already present in the body and help remove them from the blood.

He described testing for contamination in his own farm supply chain by calling farmers directly and asking where they sourced their feed crops, then tracking those sources to verify their actual chemical status.

He described the 60,000 chemicals now present in processed foods as having no relationship to food at any point in their origin, being entirely laboratory-derived compounds inserted for preservation, shelf life, color, flavor, and texture. He stated that every processed food, even from organic producers, contained at least 60 known additives.

Aajonus specifically noted that cooking vegetables contaminated with dithiocarbamate fungicides increased the concentration of the dangerous metabolite ETU rather than reducing it, meaning that cooking did not eliminate agricultural chemical danger and actively worsened it in at least some cases. He cited this as one specific interaction between agricultural chemical contamination and cooking as a food-processing method, with the two forms of toxicity compounding each other rather than operating independently.

He described a general principle that the industrial chemical revolution had created over 6,000 foreign chemicals that the human body had not succeeded in processing as food or air, and that toxic accumulations of these substances within the body caused ongoing deterioration, with most chemicals causing gradual degeneration rather than immediate death.

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