Re: Re: It’s Organic, but Does That Mean It’s Safer?

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Hi Tony,

"Organic" in Canada means that fresh manure cannot be put directly on the fields but must be composted for a certain length of time - at least 6 months, I believe. We are always taking chances with contamination when we buy processed food, organic or not. Pesticides and herbicides kill beneficial, insects, plants, birds and life in the soil. Never mind what they do to us, they ruin the soil.

Lowther

From: citpeks <citpeks@...>Subject: [ ] Re: It’s Organic, but Does That Mean It’s Safer? Received: Thursday, March 5, 2009, 1:35 PM

The label "organic" was invented to assure customers that a product had no unnatural substances (pesticides, hormones, additives). Something that has always concerned me, specially about produce, has been sanitation. When I see organic lettuce, I think "Was it fertilized with manure?" Why would anyone worry about bird droppings if a cow is much bigger?I suppose people have different triggers for the "yuck" factor. I normally buy conventional produce and wash it well.Tony>> > March 4, 2009> It's Organic, but Does That Mean It's Safer?> > By KIM SEVERSON and ANDREW MARTIN> > MOST of the chicken, fruit and vegetables in Ellen Devlin-Sample' s > kitchen are organic. She thinks those foods taste better

than their > conventional counterparts. And she hopes they are healthier for her > children.> > Lately, though, she is not so sure.> > The national outbreak of salmonella in products with peanuts has been > particularly unsettling for shoppers like her who think organic food > is safer.> > The plants in Texas and Georgia that were sending out contaminated > peanut butter and ground peanut products had something else besides > rodent infestation, mold and bird droppings. They also had federal > organic certification.> > "Why is organic peanut butter better than Jif?" said Ms. Devlin- > Sample, a nurse practitioner from Pelham, N.Y. "I have no idea. If > we're getting salmonella from peanut butter, all bets are off.">

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