Re: Quality of organic food vs. eating habits
Vaughan Jones (jonesv@wave.co.nz)
Fri, 13 Dec 1996 22:59:08 +1300
>David Leaonard's reply to P. Dines about the contribution of organically-grown
>produce to the issue of chronic disease is an exellent example of distorted and
>illogical thinking extended to its most extreme. May this be a model to
>illustrate why people who don't have proper training and information about
>agriculture and nutrition should stop giving nurition and sustainable
>agriculture a bad name.
>
>Sorry, this is not flaming or spamming. I just get really annoyed when real
>garbage gets posted and represented as science or as public health advice. It
>does every professional in the field a disservice. If this is what SANET is
>reduced to, it will become discredited. That is one reason why such
>discussions need a second address, so that postings with legitimate content can
>be posted and read without having to read through this stuff.
HJOSEPH@pearl.tufts.edu
I'm sorry to disagree with HJOSEPH.
I've just read it again and find nothing wrong with what David Leaonard wrote.
HJOSEPH please let us know what is wrong in his excellent summary which was
in understandable English and what I have read in other publications.
British research has just found that carotine as in carrots and broccoli
reduces cancer and there is twice as carotine in organic carrots as in NPK
ones.
On Sanet we should think and give solutions not negatives.
As a farm adviser I know that if we wait for science to catch up with what
the best and most observant farmers find, we wait 10 to 20 years.
And it is not published to the ordinary person because the media won't
without being paid, unless it kills someone!
Keep it up David.
Best wishes
Vaughan Jones
(ex dairy & beef farmer & consultant)
Hamilton
New Zealand
jonesv@wave.co.nz