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Organic Food Moratorium Update David Mastio
Organic Food Moratorium Update
David Mastio Follow Up
Read the original piece
and some of the comments to get a
sense of the state of education and awareness
in the US.
DAVID MASTIO:
Dead bodies demand organic food moratorium
A less-than-serious look at how old technology could kill us
needs to be taken apart paragraph by
paragraph.
I may do that when I do not have higher priorities.
Date: 6/23/2011 10:57:23 AM ( 13 y ) ... viewed 43262 times
ORGANIC FOOD MORATORIUM UPDATE
This is another story that I have
been following on the Plant Your Dream Blog
This story broke into the news
on
NANO TECHNOLOGY IS MORE
INVASIVE THAT GENETIC ENGINEERING
Look at this report:
http://www.foeeurope.org/activities/nanotechnology/Documents/Nano_food_report...
8:54 am
June 23, 2011
FOLLOW UP
This is a subject I would like the High Schooler
Science students to look into.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jun/8/dead-bodies-demand-organic-foo...
DAVID MASTIO:
Dead bodies demand organic food moratorium
A less-than-serious look at how old technology could kill us
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By David Mastio-The Washington Times6:43 p.m., Wednesday, June 8, 2011Illustration: Organic farming by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times
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Right now, someone nearby is buying organic bean sprouts. It may be the last thing he ever does. Last week’s E. coli outbreak in Germany - potentially traced to an organic farm - was more deadly than the largest nuclear disaster of the last quarter-century.
Indeed, in the past two years, two public safety stories have dominated global news headlines - an explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and a nuclear power plant meltdown in Japan. Yet in the recent German organic-food-disease outbreak, nearly twice as many people already have died as in the two other industrial disasters combined.
In response to the oil spill, countries all over the world have stopped or curtailed deep-water oil drilling as new safety and environmental regulations are designed and implemented. And ground hasn’t been broken on any new nuclear power plant in Europe or the United States since news of the Japanese meltdown broke. Germany
Yet, 23 deaths and more than 1,000 hospitalizations caused by an industrial accident at an organic farm in northern Germany have caused no such newfound caution toward the expansion of that industry. It is easy to understand why. Organic farming has a reputation for being the domain of small-scale family businesses focused on caring for the Earth more than profits. Every organic-produce customer I interviewed at three supermarkets since the German outbreak began have cited better health as a key reason for buying organic food.
That’s exactly what the organic industry wants them to think. In a question-and-answer article directed at consumers, the Organic Trade Association says this: “There is mounting evidence at this time to suggest that organically produced foods may be more nutritious. Furthermore, organic foods … are spared the application of toxic and persistent insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and fertilizers. Many EPA-approved pesticides were registered long before extensive research linked these chemicals to cancer and other diseases.”
If that view of the organic industry was ever true, it has changed over the past 20 years. Organic food has grown into a multibillion-dollar global food enterprise driven by the very same bottom-line pressures that safety advocates blame for Tokyo Power and BP putting their corporate profits before public safety. If you don’t believe it, ask yourself why organic bean sprouts cost twice as much as modern bean sprouts. In a word, greed.
COMMENT BY ROY
on TWITTER
http://twitter.com/#!/RoyMankovitz
03:44 PM on 6/12/2011
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-katz-md/e-coli-vegetables-blame-meat_b_87...
Few people seem to be aware that cow manure (dung) from pastured animals raised on a natural diet (grass) and untreated with antibiotic s or hormones is not only non-toxic, but actually has antimicrob ial properties ! It is also an excellent insect repellant. In India, it is used topically as part of Ayurvedic medicine to treat skin problems. It has a non-offens ive odor, is used as a floor and wall liner to repel insects (particula rly mosquitoes ), as a food storage preservati ve, and of course, it is a great natural fertilizer . Some examples based on cultural anecdotes and observatio ns, and indigenous wisdom:
Cow dung in medicine
http://news.discovery.com/human/cow-dung-medicine-spiritual-india.html
Development of cow dung based herbal mosquito repellent
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/8105
The healing powers of dung
http://blog.tonic.com/the-healing-powers-of-cow-dung/
http://blog.tonic.com/the-healing-powers-of-cow-dung/
Stories from India
http://partapstoriesforall.blogspot.com/
2010/01/environment-in-new-light-iii.html
http://partapstoriesforall.blogspot.com/2010/01/environment-in-new-light-iii....
THE COMMENTS ON THIS ONE ARE
INTERESTING
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-kowalcyk/ecoli-outbreak_b_873107.html
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