>The irony here is that the same statistical naivety, and lack of
>appreciation of scale is what has driven the phobia against pesticide
>residues. Except that the connection between pesticide residues and illness
>is harder to prove than the Salmonella/illness connection.
>
>Dale
Dale,
I am curious about your message: are you still denying the link
between pesticide residues and illnesses like cancer?
Roberto
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le farming manage to drill into our
subconscious that theirs is the normal, regular, standard, usual,
conventional kind of farming.
>before ). Unless they are really hungry my dogs refuse to eat industrial =
>broiler chicken and my cattle, sheep and goats prefer organic grass by =
>far.
I've heard enough stories about this. But chemical farming advocates
call them "anecdotal".
>3) It can be very difficult to prove that organic is healthy, it is a =
>lot easier to see that chemical food and the production of same can be =
>rather unhealthy.
Or should we rather say, "chemically-farmed food is less healthy than
organically-farmed food". But this is exactly the same as saying that
"organically-farmed food is more healthy than chemically-farmed food",
isn't it?
Roberto Verzola
Philippines
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