it's known to the state of california that walking around bare foot can lead to cancer.
Everything but marijuana in CA has a warning label. So with these things so prolific, do you think anyone bothers to read a label more than once? It's like the boy crying out wolf. Let CA actually ban all products that "cause" cancer. Then the residents can eat twigs and berries and walk without shoes.
Yes, pesticides used in food production and could be bad if you directly ingested a large amount of them in a single sitting or used them in a way contraindicated by the label. However, the amount found on your food is far below any level that would ever cause harm.On serious note a lot of pesticides they use in food now days can cause cancer, birth defects and other illnesses. If even half of what California says can cause cancer is true, there is definitely something that has to be done about it. In 100 years from now when safer alternatives are in use they'll be talking about it like we talk about asbestos today. There is a lot more cancer now than say, 100 years ago, so there's SOMETHING we are doing that is causing it.
Proposition 65 (formally titled "The Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986") is a California law passed by direct voter initiative in 1986 by a 63%-37% vote. Its goals are to protect drinking water sources from toxic substances that may cause cancer and birth defects and to reduce or eliminate exposures to those chemicals generally, for example in consumer products, by requiring warnings in advance of those exposures.
Warning label
The following warning language is standard on products sold in California if they contain chemicals on the Proposition 65 list and the amount of exposure caused by the product is not within defined safety limits.WARNING: This product contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.The wording can be changed as necessary, so long as it communicates that the chemical in question is known to the state to cause cancer, or birth defects or other reproductive harm. For exposures from other sources, such as car exhaust in a parking garage, a standard sign might read: "This area contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, or birth defects or other reproductive harm".[14]
Who cares if this proposition passed years back. It definitely does not affect me as a consumer seeing this label being put on food/entrances to certain areas/etc.
"WARNING: This product contains chemicals known in the state of California to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm."
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Just like cigarettes. They put that stupid cancer label on every pack and AD or coupon and is the cigarette industry losing any money? Nope!