e. coli in organic food
Dan Hook (guldann@ix.netcom.com)
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:10:37 -0500
I want comments from you knowledgeable people about the paragraph I read in
a "conventional" farming magazine:
"Despite Environmental Protection Agency leaflets urging consumers to
purchase organic foods to avoid harmful pesticide residues, new studies show
organic foods have their own problems. Since organic foods rely heavily on
animal manure for fertilization, people who consume organic foods are about
eight times more likely to be attacked by E. coli bacteria. Organic
consumers are also at increased risk from natural toxins like fungi,
salmonella, campylobacter and listeria." So I suppose we should rush out
and buy "conventional food" I know this info is getting to the general
public, one of my members was telling a friend all about our CSA (try to
recruit) and her friend asked do they use manure? Beth
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