Lead Safe Mama’s “Safer Swaps” for Snacks! #SwapDrama2024

 

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11/26/2024 – Tuesday
Quick note from Tamara Rubin:

I don’t know if you saw the “swap drama” on social media over the weekend.

It was a bit annoying.

Several “influencers” in the “food space” recommended a list of toxic products as “safer choices” — nearly EVERY recommendation on their lists was for a food product we have tested (through the Lead Safe Mama, LLC community-collaborative food testing initiative) that has tested positive for unsafe levels of one or more of the toxicants (Heavy Metals) we are looking for: Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, and Arsenic. 

People have (this week, and prior to now as well) asked me to provide “safer swaps” in easy images so they know what to buy when they go to the grocery store.

While I know they are asking me to recommend packaged foods – in response (and perhaps in protest) I created a bit of an art installation on my Facebook and Instagram pages (it’s all an art installation in the end – isn’t it?) – with visual simple images of my recommended safer swaps along with links to those “products”. You can see a taste (pun intended) in these images at the top and bottom of this page. The images with multiple items shown are each screenshots of a grouping of all of the individual posts on my Instagram page yesterday!

Safer Swap Affiliate links (everything linked below should be organic!)

• apples – https://amzn.to/3ZyG2BH
• Bananas – https://amzn.to/4fP8UuX
• pears – https://amzn.to/49bvdsq
• chestnuts – https://amzn.to/40YEZfj
• raspberries – https://amzn.to/413Bc0k
• blueberries – https://amzn.to/3CWMdGs
• Strawberries – https://amzn.to/3CWMhGc
• pomegranate – https://amzn.to/4fHNi3r
• celery – https://amzn.to/4fIEtqk
• broccoli – https://amzn.to/4g4mxpN
• cauliflower – https://amzn.to/3CJLyIt
• Peaches – https://amzn.to/3YYv9ra
• avocados – https://amzn.to/3ZlyAcT
• asparagus – https://amzn.to/3OpBjf2
• pineapple – https://amzn.to/3ZdEBXY
• snap peas – https://amzn.to/4g3FZ69
• radishes – https://amzn.to/3CJLFUp
• carrots – https://amzn.to/3V9RkcZ
• cucumbers – https://amzn.to/3B0r2mA
• red pepper – https://amzn.to/4fYOsYR
• cherry tomatoes – https://amzn.to/3Zn0kxJ 

Enjoy these swaps! Many are crunchy and satisfying! All are tasty! & Most can be included in your child’s school lunch! ALL of these safer swap choices are GLUTEN FREE! All links above should take you to Organic choices for these products (on Amazon) – maybe with one or two exceptions!

Please check out our open/ not-yet-funded campaigns on GoFundMe if you would like to support some of our additional independent, crowd-funded, third-party laboratory testing. Thank you!

Amazon links are affiliate links. If you purchase something after clicking on a Lead Safe Mama, LLC Amazon affiliate link, we may receive a percentage of what you spend at no extra cost to you.

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For those new to the Lead Safe Mama website:

Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her four sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005).

• Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama, LLC — a unique community collaborative woman-owned small business for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety.
• Since July 2022, the work of Lead Safe Mama, LLC has been responsible for six product recalls (FDA and CPSC).
• All test results reported on this website are science-based, accurate, and replicable.
• Please check out our press page to see some of the news coverage of our work, linked here.

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