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Used to spend long periods of times in Thailand, sometimes India, Nepal, Laos.
Pesticides are really bad there. I have noticed that I get sore breasts after a few months in Asia, because of too much estsrogen like chemicals. I met some male travellers who I noticed got bigger man breasts, after some time. Also had constantly sore throat and stress symtoms.
It's sad to say, but I felt the best where people were the poorest: they didn't have the money to buy all that toxic stuff for growing food, plus did not use mobil phones, etc... The moment they get a bit go money, they put it in TVs, mobiles, pesticides...
There's been a serious study showing areas where farmers had a very high rate of suicide in Thailand: they had switched to chemicals in farming, and got into heavy debt. Plus the chemicals messing with their body/brain, made them depressed and suicidal. Thailand is not a country like Japan or Finland with a traditionally high rate of suicides.
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