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To: maine-iac7

True - but those God-made foods aren’t available in the super markets - even if they have an ‘organic’ section without all the chemicals, pesticides etc....as they’ve all been out of the ground for days to weeks...and every day they are out of the ground, their vitamin-mineral levels drop.

I think of the time I spent in India and Nepal, and Belarus.
I think about the back breaking work done to make something grow.
I think about the puny harvest after the grasshoppers and other bugs took their share.
I think about the few puny plants that pushed their way through the soil because they don’t have “chemicals, pesticides and fertilizers.”
I pray the day never comes when we live that way in this country.
I thank God for the scientists and farmers with the motivation and intelligence that provide us with an abundance of good food unknown in most of the world.


69 posted on 02/04/2012 7:35:15 PM PST by WestwardHo
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To: WestwardHo

This is not “India and Nepal, and Belarus.”

Organic farming still requires knowledge - and in America and Canada it is very successful - has yields equal to ‘chemical’ farming without depleting the land of nutrients.

The Amish are certainly successful - and using the same land for decades - farming like in my grandparents day - long before it was called ‘organic.” My tomatoes and other veggies are just a ‘pretty’ on the outside as super market tomatoes, but taste a whale of a lot better. My sun-ripened strawberries are sweet and red all the way through - not white and all but tasteless, full of chemicals and gas ripened.

The produce we get from our organic farmers is far superior to the ‘chemical’ crops. I think you really know this. One could wonder if you work for Monsanto - ahahah

Here’s a family that grows 6,000 lbs of food on 1/8 acre in the middle of a big city - enough to feed the family and provide a living by selling the excess.

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July05/organic.farm.vs.other.ssl.html

I suppose you think GMO foods are great too.

“Organic farming produces same corn and soybean yields as conventional farms, but consumes less energy and no pesticides, study finds”
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July05/organic.farm.vs.other.ssl.html

you must think we’re pretty dumb.


72 posted on 02/04/2012 8:49:03 PM PST by maine-iac7
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