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From: <kandmhfarm@sprintmail.com>
To: sanet-mg@cals.ncsu.edu
Sent: May 21, 2036 8:56:27 PM GMT
Subject: Re: nutritional characteristics - an alternative question
<Mary>>>
"Hugh - thanks for all your good information in your answer to my inquiry
on nutritional characteristics of organic food. I totally agree with you
that we can TELL - based on our own personal sensory perception - and
certainly that is good enough for most of us who are already 'believers'.
However, my question is part of the research/background I'm doing for an
article I'm writing, attempting to answer some of the questions
frequently launched at organic food/farming (by the likes of Dennis
Avery) in a non-confrontational manner. One of their contentions is that
foolish, uninformed consumers are being duped into paying more for food
that is no better than conventional. Hey, our own OTA was quoted as
saying as much on that 20/20 program! Well, if we in the organic
community KNOW that there is a difference, HOW do we know - and how can
we convey/explain this to others? "
<LION REPLIES>>>
There is a government FOOD and DRUG AGENCY. They have a policy of keeping
"FOOD" separate from "DRUGS". "FOOD" is what keeps living organisms alive;
"Drugs" are what brings a greater state of "health from a lesser state (or
at least provides a holding action during a deterioration). "Food" does
not make health claims; "Drugs" must go through protocals of testing to
determine that they increase health or at least stave off decreases during
health deterioration. For that reason 20/20 posed a "trick question" to
entrap the OTA rep by asking the person to make "DRUG" claims for "FOOD".
The OTA rep stayed within the bounds of the law, as enforced by the FDA,
and declined to make HEALTH=DRUG claims for food. It was a pre-planned
ambush. "Apples" were compared to "Oranges" (i.e. pesticides residues for
conventional foods, vs "harmless" E.Coli for sprouts which would never be
using pesticides. No tests for E.coli 0157:H7 were performed on anything,
and no extrapolations from these tests are warranted pertaining to E.coli
0157:H7.) This was a pure malicious biased ambush, not journalism.
Signed, Lion Kuntz
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