On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:33:39 -0400, E.t. Ash <[log in to unmask]>  
wrote:

> yet at the end of the day I would still ask.... 'why would anyone even  
> attempt to rear queens in a habitat dripping with agricultural chemicals?

Because at the end of the day it's their home and no one thinks in terms  
of 'dripping chemicals' in their backyards. There's a reason why citizens  
of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Ohio and all the other Midwestern states stay  
put. Not all of the countryside in those states is a field of corn, just  
like NYC is not full of lead and heavy metals just because 8 million  
people live and drive there (thank you James Fischer for the references on  
that topic in the other thread!). It's the same reason why we, the  
American public are not all dead despite consuming all those products of  
the big chem agriculture.

It's an interesting thread, but let's get back to the facts and science  
and skip the scare mongering. The fact is that I want to eat a  
sun-ripened, freshly picked tomato not because it's not 'dripping  
chemicals', but because it tastes so damn good! Once consumers start  
demanding better food, big agriculture will figure out how to deliver it,  
a point made in one of the talks at the EAS conference this year.

Przemek
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