[Market-farming] re why you should buy regular goods
Azherbldy
azherbldy at cox.net
Wed Aug 1 16:58:53 EDT 2007
Jackie.....
You are so sadly misinformed. Although I think your heart is in the right place, your facts are misconstrued and/or just wrong. I highly recommend you do some further research on pesticide/herbicide/antibiotic/growth hormone use & residues; policies & practices in confined animal feeding operations as well as the effects of our current movement towards huge agribusiness conglomerates. I think if you do some reading with an open mind, you will change your views. I'm afraid that your post sounds frighteningly like John Stossel's 20/20 rant about organic food from several years back.....a report that he & ABC were forced to take back & apologize for on the air. If I may, I'd like to suggest you read at least one of the following books. Although these books are just a few of the many I've found very enlightening, they are all very, very easy reads (except for the subject matter). "Eat Here. Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasues in a Global Supermaket" by Brian Halweil; "The Way We Eat. Why our Food Choices Matter" by Peter Singer & Jim Mason; "Real Food. What to Eat and Why" by Nina Planck and/or 'Animal, Vegetable, Miraclel. A Year of Food Life" b Barbara Kingsolver. You might also invest in a subscription to Organic Gardening Magazine -- or -- just become a careful reader of your newspaper, where recent stories about the FDA & USDA should be enough to scare anyone into eating organically!
Marta
Sustainable Farming Advocate
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