Food safety standards threaten organic farming
Customers frightened of foodborne diseases are holding farmers to stringent standards that contradict biologically diverse farming methods.
Photo: Barefoot in Florida/Flickr While the goal of food safety legislation, such as the bill sponsored by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Los Angeles), is honorable – preventing unnecessary deaths from foodborne pathogens – some argue that it’s overreaching and may even be counterproductive. UC Davis scientists found that vegetation buffers can remove as much as 98 percent of E. coli from surface water, and warned that some rodents prefer cleared areas.
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Organic farming methods offer several benefits for the environment and human health as a whole, but unfortunately, there are many misconceptions and falsehoods being spread regarding organic food and farming methods, both by proponents and detractors. Here are the facts about what organic methods can do for us and what they can't.
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Corn, antibiotic and hormone laced meats, milk, so loaded with hormones it cannot be sold in sane countries, Soda-pop, chemical drinks , and GMO'ed oils for cooking, our daily bread in America! God help us, we even show up on TV and in the newsreels as the biggest fattest ones in the crowd, easy to pick out as different, and our huge size, high calorie intake existance is totally reliant on the Cheap Oil Era, which now draws to an end! Where does that leave us? Tractors in fields, stilled by.... More
Why go organic? Living an organic lifestyle is healthy for your body. Your body has the ability to shed off natural harmful bacteria an microorganisms that attack your system. Eating foods that have additives, and preservatives inside, or consuming meat, poultry and dairy products that have been pumped full of antibiotics and growth hormones, this interferes with your natural body system. The additives and preservatives place everything within your body into an imbalance
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Why don't you Organic Elite grow up already.
What do we do now???
Another product recall is beginning, and this time it's a romaine lettuce recall. Samples from a batch of romaine lettuce from Tanimura and Antle Inc. have been found to contain salmonella, and they have begun a recall for it. The presence of the bacteria was detected by a random sample in Wisconsin, and the company has acknowledged that despite the 12-16 day shelf life having been passed for at least half of the shipment, they are being extra cautious, and luckily, no illnesses have been.... More
I believe you would be interested in the following article,
Do foods live up
to the organic label?
http://www.ajc.com/news/do-foods-live-100312.html
This article was submitted to the Metro Atlanta State News on Saturday, July 25, 2009 at 3 p.m. Atlanta time.
Within this article you will note it says, "Doyle, the food safety expert at.... More
Every time I see these news I lose more hope on the "system" to be able to feed the population with healthy and safe food. I think sooner or later we will have to grow our own food if we want to be safe and sure about what we are eating. The quality of the produce out there (non organic) has already been shown to contain less and less nutrients. I am all for safety as well, but when safety goes against nature you have t wonder if we are going in the right direction.
Simultaneous production of biopesticide and alkaline proteases by Bacillus thuringiensis using sewage sludge as a raw material.
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The simultaneous production of Bacillus thuringiensis
Hey, I'm all for food safety. Americans deserve good, wholesome food and they deserve to know the food they eat is safe. That's why I believe in food safety. But, I also believe that before our elected leaders pass laws increasing the amount of record keeping required to farm, we need to consider the impact the laws will have on farmers. I mean, let's make sure we have food to be safe with. Driving farmers out of business with more and more regulation will only make prices go up and up. Who.... More
What on is the world coming to?
So it's ok for them to use chemicals in the soil and on our food to poison us, but heaven forbid a deer or squirrel should walk across an organic field? Seriously?
When I hear about contaminated spinach, peanuts, tomatos, etc. I immediately wonder who peed on the crops. Which is for sure not what I think when I buy organic.
Sign the Petition to Oppose HR2749
http://www.ftcldf.org/petitions/pnum993.php
On June 8, Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) introduced HR 2749, The Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, a bill "to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to improve the safety of food in the global market, and for other purposes." The bill has since been amended twice with the latest
Organic farmers are becoming victims of the EPA, USDA and FDA's 30 year old policy to use agricultural land as a cheap method of disposal for bacteria and virus contaminated sewag sludge. This policy was released as a regulation in 1993. In 1998, EPA tried to force sludge use into the Organic Food Law. Didn't work, but in 1999 California allowed the use of Title 22 sewage effluent as "reclaimed Water" to irrigate spinach and lettuce in the 12,000 acre Salinas Valley. Ten years later Congress is.... More
