My Feelings About Organic

 


Organic is good as long as you can eliminate all the other toxins in
your life which I feel is impossible.  The air we breathe is toxic.  If
you eat meat,  was that steak you just had raised on organic grain?  Was
that beef steer injected with a growth hormone?  How about the water you
drink?  I'm sure you wouldn't think of drinking tap water with all the
chemicals added such as chlorine and fluoride to help save your teeth.
OK,  so it's spring water you purchase as the local grocery market
instead.  Does that mean that there are no chemicals leeching into the
spring through the ground?  The plastic bottle that the water came in,
does it contain any toxins that could harm you?  My point being,  some
people carry organic to the extreme!  Now I'm not saying organic is a
bad thing!  I guess the best part of it is the fact that you can live
organic and die healthy :)

Rich

 

On 6/3/10 11:08 PM, EVP MAN wrote:

See my <http://www.rossde.com/garden/garden_organic.html> .  See also my
signature below.

--
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>

Natural foods can be harmful:  Look at all the
people who die of natural causes.

 

On 6/4/2010 11:44 AM, David E. Ross wrote:

I'm an organic chemist and your site makes a lot of sense to me.
As a chemist, I know that some of the most dangerous substances known to
man are things like botulism, aflatoxin and ricin, that are found in
nature and can be considered as organic.

I also spent a few years working on food packaging materials and know
that in spite of all the supposed dangers in packaging, people are
poisoned by the toxins in the food itself, not the packaging.

 



Is urea an artificial substance, or one found in, and produced by
organisms, Frank?

Do you think an agronomist would think of malathion as an organic
pesticide, Frank, hmmm, do ya, Frank?

I can hardly wait to hear from an "organic chemist". What was you
degree? An AA?
--
- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/HZinn_page.html

 

On 6/4/10 1:58 PM, Billy wrote [in part]:

The urea granules in a sack in my garage are artificial.  The urea on my
patio -- urine from my tortoise -- is natural.  BOTH are organic.

--
David E. Ross
Climate:  California Mediterranean
Sunset Zone: 21 -- interior Santa Monica Mountains with some ocean
influence (USDA 10a, very close to Sunset Zone 19)
Gardening diary at <http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary>