Ok maybe Ca. and New jersey may be a head of their time but organic
growers are way ahead of their time and have been voluntarily keeping
these records for years all over the USDA. What about the 3.3 million
trucks that bring food in from across the border . how well is that food
check ? and what are their laws like in other countries ? and when they
expand the fair trade do they lessen pesticide residue laws? etc. Didn't
Canada have to take a pesticide hit when the US forced them to take food
with more pesticide in it as part of some fair trade agreement. Lower the
standards does not seem to be the safest direction to me thus another
reason organic food seems to me to be safer. I hear that food is on a fast
track remember the strawberries that came in and were frozen in the US and
made people sick in the mid west? well as the President and Vice
President talk about food safety I hope they will melt that talk with their
trade agreements. One hand gives the other takes away. Money talks louder
than safety in most cases.
What the heck do you think people buy organic food because unlike the USDA
they feel the organic food is safer and after carful thought and research
they decide organic is safer no matter what the USDA says. The USDA is
not always right. remember when mothers milk had more DDT then law allows.
that was i think because some pesticides build up in us and because we are
near the top of the food chain + children are smaller and everything I
read so far in my over 50 years tells me eating food not grown with
pesticide is safer and growing it with out pesticides for the grower and
farm workers must be safer . Just another reason organic food is safer.
or At 09:51 AM 5/23/98 -0400, Harris, Craig wrote:
>--Dan in Sunny Puerto Rico--dan.worley@mindless.com--wrote:
>. . . Yet the chemical farmers are not required to keep records of how
>often,
>or with what, they spray their crops.
>
>this is only partly correct . . . some states (e.g., california, new
>jersey) require all farmers to keep records of all the applications of
>all pesticides they make to their crops, including the date, the
>substance, and the amount . . . all states require all farmers to keep
>records of all the applications of restricted use pesticides (the ones
>requiring applicator certification) they make to their crops, including
>the date, the substance, and the amount . . . different states have
>different requirements for access to these records (e.g., california
>requires that all records be submitted on a regular basis, new jersey
>requires submission every third year)
>cheers,
>craig
>
>craig k harris
>department of sociology
>michigan state university
>429b berkey hall
>east lansing michigan 48824-1111
>tel: 517-355-5048
>fax: 517-432-2856
>
>
>> ----------
>> From: Daniel Worley[SMTP:dan.worley@mindless.com]
>> Sent: Friday 22 May 1998 8:51 PM
>> To: Wilson, Dale
>> Cc: sanet-mg@shasta.ces.ncsu.edu
>> Subject: RE: Do you think organic food is safer and why?
>>
>> At 18:03 5/22/98 , you wrote:
>> >Sal,
>> >
>> >> Where is the residue testing USDA. Where is the chain of evidence.
>> >>
>> >I've seen the labs where they test the safety of chemicals, and met
>> >people who do this. They appear to be good operations. Untold
>> millions
>> >of rodents, and thousands of beagles, occasional monkeys are used in
>> the
>> >testing.
>>
>> Dale,
>>
>> Care to explain a couple of things to this poor, uneducated, country
>> boy?
>>
>> Why has at least one nurse at a regional hospital in Calif. stated
>> "They
>> should run a bus for all the patients from XXX." referring to the
>> large
>> number of cases of pesticide drift and residue ailments being seen in
>> that ER?
>>
>> Why is it that a small, but growing number of people will get an
>> instant
>> rash if they lightly rub the skin of a fresh piece of fruit across
>> their
>> forearm? (It must be fresh fruit from a non-organic farm).
>>
>> These are not isolated cases. They show up on a daily basis. I
>> know
>> people who are so sensitive to the chemical residue on fresh produce
>> that
>> they wear rubber gloves to handle it and while washing it.
>>
>> Yet the chemical farmers are not required to keep records of how
>> often,
>> or with what, they spray their crops.
>>
>>
>>
>> --Dan in Sunny Puerto Rico--
>> dan.worley@mindless.com
>>
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