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[william Eggers <wce1482@yahoo.com>]

This is one of the silliest thing I have ever heard of.  If having animals in an orchard would infect with ecoli, then all animals would have to be kept out of the orchard.  I doubt if any orhcard keeps wild animals or birds out of the orchard.  So, if you are not going to eat fruit out of an orchard that has animals is it, you probably should just quit eating fruit.

 

Bill Eggers

Winterset, Iowa

Thomas Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> With the new strains of ecoli, deliberately running animals in the orchard
> is a bad idea today.
>
> Once upon a time it was good idea, today it is a very bad idea.
>
> I would NEVER buy fruit/cider/produce from any farm that deliberately ran
> livestock (of any species) through the orchard. It may be picturesque, cut
> down
>  on insects and boost sales, but to a thinking consumer it is health
> folly. It is no different that migrant workers defecating in the fields and
> contaminating food.
>
> With modern changes in ecoli this is only common sense. Common sense can
> sometimes be hard to find today though.
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Lucky.PIttman@murraystate.edu
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 7:08 AM
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [NAFEX] Turkeys May Benefit Organic Orchards
>
>
> Richard, 
> Through the years, I've seen either posts on the
> NAFEX list or articles in POMONA touting the benefits
> of running turkeys - particularly the 'old,
> wild-type' - in orchards - for mouse/vole control, in
> addition to your experience with them in helping
> control plum curculio. Seems they're voracious
> consumers of small
>  rodents.
>
> Lucky
>
>
>
>
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