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To: modest proposal

Uh... you do know that ‘organic’ food is a scam, yes? It costs more and carries more health risks than the regular stuff. You can get perfectly healthy products at any grocery as long as you don’t buy junk.


123 posted on 02/13/2008 6:57:33 AM PST by FR Class of 1998 (Government vending: Insert Paycheck and Press '4' for English)
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To: FR Class of 1998

I don’t think organic food is a scam. How is selling people meat that has not been jumped up on hormone injections and antibiotics in the feed a scam?

or selling crackers without 10,000 preservatives. how is that a scam?

And what are the health risks of organic food?


124 posted on 02/13/2008 7:01:06 AM PST by modest proposal
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To: FR Class of 1998

first, organic is not a scam...it’s a poorly run system. Organic is real. It can be defined, there are testing standards to meet.

Second, the word organic has a rich history that produces contradictory terms and definitions. One would never confuse organic chemistry with organic food.

Third, there are evil corporate forces working night and day to dilute the real meaning of organic. The Organic Trade Association is in the middle of this battle. And it doesn’t look good for the true organic forces at the moment.

Your comment about organic food having health risks is largely nonsense. Sure, there are cases you have to watch for where toxic fungal infections and the like, but that is nothing compared to the accumulating toxic brew we ingest continously on a daily basis with so called conventional foods.

Also, contrast raw milk facilities with pasteurized milk facilities. Raw milk facilities are maintained to higher standards of cleanliness in order to keep the weekly bacterial counts down. The pasteurized milk facilities slide on some cleanliness standards because they rely on pasteurization to get approval by the department of health.

You can’t tell me an organic free range chicken is a bigger health threat than the typical Tyson or Purdue chicken that gets “washed” in that salmonella-rich broth in the processing plant. Puhleeeze.


161 posted on 02/15/2008 7:16:41 PM PST by bioqubit
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