[ExI] Organic foods/was Re: bees again

[William Flynn Wallace]

spike - Milk from hormone-free cows fed on only organic crops is reeeeally
pricy stuff.

Not to mention the $27 a pound organic grassfed steaks I saw yesterday at
the farmer's market.  bilkl w

On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 3:06 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> On Mar 20, 2016, at 11:19 AM, Tomaz Kristan <protokol2020 at gmail.com>
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> >>… Go to the extreme - buy organic foods.
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> Some Germans did just that, a few years ago. Then the e-coli took several
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> >…Isn't E. coli in food more a matter of contamination than whether it's
> organic? Also, doesn't cleaning or cooking take care of most of the
> problem? If not, given the popularity of organic* foods, why do we not see
> widespread deaths from eating them? Or am I missing some data here?
> Regards, Dan
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> The wife of a college friend went off on a movement which convinced itself
> that Pasteurizing milk is a bad thing.  So they found some local
> sympathizers and created an organization for collecting and distributing
> raw milk from crops grown organically and crops fertilized by manure rather
> than ammonium nitrate (which is a chemical, which is made in a laboratory,
> which must be evil because it isn’t natural, etc.)  This introduces a risk
> of e. coli and other bacteria from the manure.  Raw milk introduces a host
> of risks.  Milk from hormone-free cows fed on only organic crops is
> reeeeally pricy stuff.  But at least you might get sick from it.
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> I advised him to get some personal liability insurance.
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