queenbee wrote:
> Interesting there was a program on Australian television last night 
> which quoted a study that showed that, nutritionally, there was no 
> difference between organic and non organic food tested.  I believe it 
> would be the same for honey.
> 

I for one have never been under the illusion that organically produced 
food was necessarily more nutritious though I'm sure many people believe 
that to be true. I can say from experience however that in side-by-side 
taste tests, organically grown tomatoes may not be more nutritious, but 
they do actually taste better than their chemically produced 
counterparts. I also know from side-by-side taste tests that pure, 
clean, unheated, unfiltered, unadulterated honey, free from chemical 
residues and antibiotics, just tastes better and smells better than the 
over-heated, over-filtered blended sweet-goo you'll find on supermarket 
shelves.

I prefer organically produced food because by purchasing it, I am saying 
yes to smaller scale, sane, sustainable farming practices and a 
traditional lifestyle in the only way that really counts- with my 
dollars. I buy Fair Trade shade-grown coffee beans because I know that 
by doing so I'm supporting a small scale, hard working bean farmer in 
some impoverished under-developed country and helping them maintain a 
traditional way of life in the only way that really counts- with my dollars.

So for me it's not so much about nutrition. It's more about chemical 
pollutants- I don't want them in my food and I don't want them in the 
environment where my food is grown and I make that statement in the only 
way that really matters: with my dollars.

. . o O ( Hivastan... aren't there US troops deployed over there? )

George-
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George Fergusson
Whitefield Maine

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