Another problem with organic food, Catherine, is that a lot of it has
been covered in shit from farms, in place of of pesticides. Two
problems with that: first, the farms that sell the manure may not
have been organic and it may contain pesticides, and secondly, in
eating these foods, you're supporting the continuance of factory
farming, and the widespread feeding of animals, rather than humans,
with all the by-product problems that entails (the waste, the
unwanted male offspring etc). For these reasons, some animal rights
activists have very reluctantly gone back to eating non-organic
produce.
Sarah
At 9:31 AM -0500 02/02/2003, Catherine McKay wrote:
And, if you want to be really paranoid about it, as I
sometimes am, even the organically grown stuff grows
in soil that has no doubt been subjected to
contamination of some kind, and is rained on by acid
rain.
