<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">### Organic food is a religion. Completely non-scientific, a hodgepodge of wishful thinking and anti-technological superstition. I drink grass-fed milk because it's full of omega-3 acids but otherwise I tend to stay away from organics - I don't like the feeling I partake in a <span class="">cult</span>, and have to pay for it double.</div><div><br></div><div>Gee - I've always wanted to be in a cult and now I find that I am in one and have been for over 40 years - organic gardener (and now I'm religious too?). I have never, ever had to break down and spray etc. to get rid of an infestation of bugs. There are natural fungicides that work well and just a soap spray will kill bugs effectively. </div><div><br></div><div>OG used to be sort of cult-like, beginning in the 40s. Now we have certified farms. Yea!! And heirloom varieties, and seedsavers and a lot more. Use of a lot of manure is a very very old practice and saves dumping it in streams. Chemical fertilizer kills worms - you won't find one in a thousand acres of the usual treated field. Yes, I know pouring grits on fire ants won't work, so I do use chemicals very selectively and carefully and I don't put on more than the label calls for thinking it will work better (unlike most farmers).</div><div><br></div><div>Don't get me started about the FDA etc. How do you like 8 year old girls going through puberty and getting pregnant at 9 because of hormones in pork etc.? How do you like superbugs getting immune to antibiotics because of their addition to chicken and hog and cattle feed? Yes, they are getting rid of these and it's about time. Thanks to the ecofreaks, I suppose. Yeah, let's deregulate, close down the feds and let Ortho run the country. This is insane. Let the pigs etc. eat anything we feed them, and who cares about spongiform bovine encephalopathy? AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</div><div><br></div><div>bill w</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Adrian Tymes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><p dir="ltr">On Mar 20, 2016 12:01 PM, "Will Steinberg" <<a href="mailto:steinberg.will@gmail.com" target="_blank">steinberg.will@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I think it's finally time to change the name of this list, to "Bees Institute".</p>
</span><p dir="ltr">Don't be a buzzkill. I beelieve other topics are still discussed. For example, how far are we from radiotelepathy (not just speech via radio, but sharing sensory impressions and mental pictures), and would that make us more of a hive mind?</p>
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