Anyone here ever call a firearm a "tool"? Pesticides, or medicine, as I like to call them are "tools" which enable safe, efficient production, if properly used. Pharmaceutical manufacturers produce the majority of pesticides. Ready to pass on that "man-made" anesthesia next surgery?
Other than the 52% cost increase for growing "nice produce", here is another reason to pass. Just the science please:
Organic food? No thanks!
Dennis T. Avery in American Outlook, Fall 1998
Copyright 1998 Wall Street Journal
December 8, 1998
According to recent data compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), people who eat organic and
"natural" foods are eight times as likely as the rest of the population to be attacked by a deadly new strain of E.coli
bacteria (O157:H7). This new E.coli is attacking tens of thousands of people per year, all over the world. It is
causing permanent liver and kidney damage in many of its victims. . . .
Consumers of organic foods are also more likely to be attacked by a relatively new, more virulent strain of the
infamous salmonella bacteria. Salmonella was America's biggest foodborne death risk until the new E.coli O157
came along.
Organic food is more dangerous than conventionally grown produce because organic farmers use manure as the
major source of fertilizer for their food crops. Animal manure is the biggest reservoir of these nasty bacteria that
are afflicting and killing so many people.
Organic farmers compound the contamination problem through their reluctance to use antimicrobial preservatives,
chemical washes, pasteurization, or even chlorinated water to rid their products of dangerous bacteria. One
organic grower summed up the community's attitudes as follows: "Pasteurization has only been around a hundred
years or so; what do you think people did before that?"
The answer is simple. They died young.
Other than the 52% cost increase for growing "nice produce", here is another reason to pass. Just the science please:
Organic food? No thanks!
Dennis T. Avery in American Outlook, Fall 1998
Copyright 1998 Wall Street Journal
December 8, 1998
According to recent data compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), people who eat organic and
"natural" foods are eight times as likely as the rest of the population to be attacked by a deadly new strain of E.coli
bacteria (O157:H7). This new E.coli is attacking tens of thousands of people per year, all over the world. It is
causing permanent liver and kidney damage in many of its victims. . . .
Consumers of organic foods are also more likely to be attacked by a relatively new, more virulent strain of the
infamous salmonella bacteria. Salmonella was America's biggest foodborne death risk until the new E.coli O157
came along.
Organic food is more dangerous than conventionally grown produce because organic farmers use manure as the
major source of fertilizer for their food crops. Animal manure is the biggest reservoir of these nasty bacteria that
are afflicting and killing so many people.
Organic farmers compound the contamination problem through their reluctance to use antimicrobial preservatives,
chemical washes, pasteurization, or even chlorinated water to rid their products of dangerous bacteria. One
organic grower summed up the community's attitudes as follows: "Pasteurization has only been around a hundred
years or so; what do you think people did before that?"
The answer is simple. They died young.
and hunters. So she freaks out comes through the crowd and down the embankment and tries to cut my line. So I threw her a hip-check and sent her into the drink. Everyone else laughed at her and started clapping. I landed my fish and went home 
. Next timme I saw her walking around the pond she walked away and did'nt open her mouth.