Posted on 08/21/2019 5:07:06 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A Missouri farmer blamed for running the largest organic food fraud scheme in U.S. history has died by suicide, weeks before he was to report to federal prison to begin serving a 10-year term, a coroner said Tuesday.
Police officers found Randy Constant dead in a vehicle in his garage at his home in Chillicothe, Missouri on Monday evening, hours after federal investigators held a news conference in Iowa to highlight the prison sentence he had received. Livingston County Coroner Scott Lindley said he concluded that Constant died from carbon monoxide poisoning, and that finding was confirmed by a post-mortem examination at the University of Missouri Medical Center.
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How do they prevent cross pollination from the area?
“What does paying to have sex with women have to do with using non-organic feed for chickens and cows that were then sold as organic?”
To establish motive and discredit the defendant’s claims that financial hardship forced him to commit the crime.
Someone starving and stealing bread is looked at far more favorably by a jury than someone stealing for pleasure.
Organic cuccs for Hillary gave her a rash
Taste is not the issue.
To determine the bad effects of non organic products, closely examine the fingernails and hair.
The ductility of fingernail and hair clippings is smaller in non organic fed humans.
The claws of dogs fed on non organic dog food are noticeably discolored.
$22,000,000 paid out to the victims of congressional sexual harassment claims.
And yet Congress critters still say they need a raise to “get by”.
A sex addict may engage in irrational spending (as may any addict).
One of the issues with “organic” is that branded food makers are paying (and expending the fuel, etc...) to bring organically certified ingredients from very distant places like Turkey, Poland or even China.
It kind of defeats the some of the principles of the organic movement.
Vegetables can be really sensuous, don’t you think?
We raise our cows on pasture grass only because to buy feed is very expensive. We only buy feed to fatten a steer up once in a while to butcher for our own freezer. Otherwise, the herd is grass-fed only.
I've had people ask me if I make more money at auction from the grass-fed beef because it is considered organic. No additives, no supplements.
No one at the auction knows what the cows they sell are fed. No one cares. Livestock to sold by the pound on the hoof on the day they are sold. They're a commodity so the price always varies from time-to-time.
But ask anyone who has eaten grass-fed beef versus grain-fed, how it tastes. They will tell you grass-fed beef is tough, dry, stringy and not very tasty. Adding grain to their diets fattens them up and makes the meat juicy, tasty and tender because of the fat the grain feed adds to them.
People who don't know what makes meat eatable versus those concerned about it being grass-fed and organic, are the same ones who go for the "organic" vegetables.
And ten times out of ten, they are fuzzy-headed liberals who see the world through rose-colored glasses.
Added your post to our Weekly Garden Thread. Thanks!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3772442/posts?page=141
It puts the orgasmic in orgasmic food, duh.
btw this post is guaranteed to be gluten free
I don’t agree that it’s a fraud. I buy organic when I can, mainly to avoid pesticide and glycophosphate exposure.
The following is just an anecdotal account, but our personal opinions are often formed from having knowledge about an issue and then having it confirmed personally. My granddaughter underwent some tests recently because the vision in one eye was deteriorating rapidly and her optic nerve in that eye was badly inflamed. Among other things, she tested positive for glycophosphate exposure.
After a month of no grains, eating only organic produce, and goat dairy (and not cow dairy,) she had new eye scans yesterday and her inflammation is almost gone. Don’t what the tests will show as far as chemical levels because that hasn’t been done yet.
But things like pesticides and glycophosphate can’t be good for us.
Still want to show me your cucumber?
I was just going to bump that for you, too! Good find! :)
We raise a steer from time to time for our own consumption and raise them the same way you do; grass finished on grain.
The first was, ‘Dinner’ and the second was, ‘Supper’ and the next one is going to be named, ‘Weber.’
Nothing better! :)
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