Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

Allow me to qualify my own response. Just two examples :
- the new food safety law 511 will spend $1.5  billion over 5 years to 
investigate food safety of mainly vegetable growers. Poultry and meat where 
the real killer bugs are found will not be affected and remains under USDA 
control. It is thought that no more than 150-200 people per year die from 
mainly E. coli infections in vegetables. This means that about $ 1 million 
will have been spent per saved person but only if the new controls catch 
every single case of contamination in time. It is thought that between 120 
and 150 Americans per day starve to dead these days. They could have been 
saved with much less.
- Obama care is very expensive to the point of bancrupting the country but 
it has the major effect of driving all patients into mainstream Big Pharma 
Industrial care. Quite a few medical doctors think that if all people had 
optimal vitamin D concentrations of between 60-75 nanogram/ml blood that all 
disease could be at least 50% reduced. This would cost almost nothing.
John


> > It all reminds me of Woody Allen's line in Bananas - political solutions 
> > don't work.
> >
> > paul tradingpost@lobo.net
> Politics is usually defined as "the art or science of gaining power and 
> staying in power". I don't think "solutions" has anything to do with it :)
> cynically, john
>
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