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Tom said:

"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."

I, for one, fail to see how cows, turkeys, or even humans defecating in an orchard would damage the fruit unless the fruit was allowed to fall on the ground.  Even then they could be sanatarily washed off so that no danger would exist.  Oft times people become overly concerned about nothing.

 Gordon Hale
Grand Prairie, Texas

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