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1 posted on 04/05/2014 3:41:07 AM PDT by markomalley
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do you want to eat poop and bugs with your food or do you want chemicals?

no right answer


2 posted on 04/05/2014 4:00:49 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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Don’t know what to believe.
I remember that a new study found that man is causing the
earth to get warmer and we were going to burn up in
10 years.
What I do know is that scientists will lie like an Obama
to get funding. Science and its scientists have been so
politicized that they are totally untrustworthy.


4 posted on 04/05/2014 4:07:52 AM PDT by Slambat
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Yeah...yeah. That’s fine, but let me ask you a question, lady bug breath, tell me why it is that organic milk lasts ten times longer before going bad in the frig compared to regular non-organic milk? Huh? Huh? Huh? :-)


6 posted on 04/05/2014 4:19:13 AM PDT by nikos1121
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I seem to remember 2 major groups from my college chemistry classes; Organic and inorganic.


26 posted on 04/05/2014 5:02:16 AM PDT by umgud
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I won’t eat organic crap!!


27 posted on 04/05/2014 5:03:12 AM PDT by dalereed
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I don’t know if GMO will give me cancer or not, but I do know that my digestive system is fine with non-GMO tomatoes and gives me several days of intestinal distress with GMO. As for the lack of pesticides and eating the occasional bug that come gratis with organic, I’ll take my chances with organic.


28 posted on 04/05/2014 5:06:31 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Freedom isn't free; nor is it easy. END ALL TOTALITARIAN ACTIVITY NOW.)
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We live next door to a 1200 head dairy. Tons to manure to deal with. I’ll give you three guesses what we fertilize our garden and hay pastures with and the first two guesses don’t count.

Best fertilizer there is.


29 posted on 04/05/2014 5:10:09 AM PDT by HotHunt
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The fundamental problem is the entire category of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). This includes not just pesticides, but also plasticizers, fire retardants, microbicides, certain drugs, and other synthetic chemicals and their metabolites and components. POPs accumulate and interact with the human body in way that are poorly understood.

There is clearly reason for concern though in that some POPs disrupt the endocrine and reproductive systems, affect intelligence and the nervous system, can be found at high levels in tumors and diseased tissues of other types, and have harmful impacts on wildlife. Such associations and the epidemiological evidence suggest that POPs have a role in some human disease processes and may otherwise impair health and normal development.

Eating organic food goes only so far in avoiding POPs. Plastic and plastic lined food containers are also a problem, especially if they are heated or used in cooking. Similarly, furniture, floor coverings, and clothes have and emit a wide range of chemicals, some of which are already established as problematic.

Most likely, as the science advances in the next few decades, more and more of the chemicals that we routinely put into the environment and our bodies will be called into question and substitutes developed. For now, eating organic and otherwise trying to avoid POPs will be difficult, expensive, and incomplete, and may -- or may not -- be worthwhile.

42 posted on 04/05/2014 5:24:01 AM PDT by Rockingham
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Ok nice article but wrong about the merits of artificial food.

Just watch this video and teem me which sweet potato you would rather eat — the “Bud-nip” one, or the organic one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ugqjGgWNAY
My Potato Project The Importance of Organic.mp4


91 posted on 04/05/2014 7:11:05 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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Conservative answer:

If there wasn’t a strong market and demand for organic food, it wouldn’t be selling.

It is a choice made freely. If you oppose it, you are something other than a conservative. If you oppose free choice, China and Russia can meet your need just fine.


93 posted on 04/05/2014 7:17:18 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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Rinse, heat, and put it in a can with lots of salt. Open the can; rinse, heat in microwave; reapply the salt, and eat. Don’t worry about pesticides or poopy.


98 posted on 04/05/2014 7:45:30 AM PDT by pallis
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A Fresh Market opened here, and my mother-in-law, God bless her, fell in love and told me I had to go there. I went and took a look around. It’s a lovely store, and the organic fruits and vegetables are very prettily arranged, but they cost two to three times what I pay at the regular old grocery store. Yeah, I’m not interested.


101 posted on 04/05/2014 8:01:58 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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