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I respect your experience and opinion. I simply have made a decision for myself based on the best information I've been able to gather. I'm not saying anyone else should make the same decision and I really don't want to get into a debate about farming practises. That is not the purpose of this board.

Thanks for sharing your point of view.

Merry Christmas!

Beth

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To: Breathe-Support Sent: Tue, December 22, 2009 9:04:25 AMSubject: Re: Spam

Beth:

I am writing this message to defend soybeans and all food products in the grocery store that are made from Soy. I owned a small farm and we grew corn and soybeans on it for thirty years. Then we sold the farm.

I may be slightly out of touch with today's soybean culture. I think nearly all the soybeans raised now have had a gene change that lets these plants tolerate Round-Up--a weed killer . If you are a gardener you probably know Round-Up. It is used on Soybean ground at or very near planting time. I do not see how there would be any residue from Round-Up at the time soybeans are harvested. None of the soybeans farmers I know of are using an insecticide on soybean plants. There may be some very very rare cases. Soybeans produce their own nitrogen from a nodules on their roots. Many farmers grow soybeans without fertilizing them as soybeans use fertilizer from the prior year's crop in most cases corn. Soybeans are held within a protective pod at harvest time and they go from wet and green seeds to mature seeds ready to harvest within a matter of

hours.

I can see no need for organic soybeans or organic wheat for that matter. I think it might be easy to prove that much of organic farming is done to simply support a higher price. It may be helpful for some food products: however, not for soybeans or wheat. Food products made from these grains are about as safe as any food product can be. Many non-organic food products are safer than the organic version of the same food.

Have no fear of grocery products produced from soybeans unless something failed due to the manufacturing of the product. Burns

From: Beth <mbmurtha (AT) yahoo (DOT) com>Subject: SpamTo: Breathe-Support@ yahoogroups. comDate: Tuesday, December 22, 2009, 7:15 AM

Good morning everyone.

There was a message posted to the board from a member named Colleen McCloud. It was filled with links to questionable websites and was clearly spam. Oddly enough my Yahoo account delivered the message directly into my Spam folder.

In any case I would advise everyone to delete this message from your email and DO NOT click on any of the links contained in the message.

I've deleted this message from the board itself and as of 2 minutes ago this person is no longer a member of Breathe Support.

I think what happened here was this person's email account has been hijacked. She had been a member for over 9 months and this is the first time anything like this had ever happened.

Please don't hesitate to contact me if anyone has any questions about any of this. Thanks everyone!

Beth

Moderator

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