[cancercured] Re: THE ORGANIC MYTH

Hi, Hope.

I appreciate your post.

Your comment about buying/growing for medicinal value is spot
on: "Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food."
Hippocrates

I have read plenty of information about why it is important to eat
organic or to grow your own. I have seen reports of pesticide use,
such as "the dirty dozen," which includes peaches, celery, foreign
grapes, apples, strawberries, etc, and I have also seen studies of
nutrient content that show organic is far more nourishing.

There is indeed going to be significant controversy over big,
chemically fertilized, industrialized growing of produce vs
organically grown produce because there is Big Money to be made. In
his book, "The China Study," T. Colin Campbell, veteran nutritional
biochemist, devotes several chapters to the phenomenon of how Big
Business hires researchers to come out with studies that back what
Big Business is doing and cast doubt on the competition.

We need to trust ourselves on what we put into our bodies, and to
fight for what is healthiest, not listen to and obey what the
government says.

I do not remember what the source for it is, but I read something not
long ago, (I think it was said by Plato!), which stated, "When the
government decides what the people will eat, the people will be sick."

My wife and I not only grow lots of different vegetables and fruits;
we also bought a dehydrator and we dry preserve much food in the
fall, as well as freezing and canning it.

Best wishes and best of health,

Elliot

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