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Oh Honey I am irritated with the labling of "ORGANICALLY PRODUCED" on many food products. Some ok perhaps, but field produced awwww. Wind drift comes into mind, voluntary wheat, oat, and cereal grain carried by animals, birds, insects from one contaminated area to another organic area. How do you really get ORGANIC HONEY. The International Bee Research Associan(IBRA) says bees travel up to 4 miles(6.5kilometers)(I think it could be a little more) and can potentialy cover 50,000 acers. There are very few ORGANIC farmers, so what stops the bee from going into a neighbours feild? Do beekeepers give the bees a pep talk and tell them where they can go and what flowers or blooms to get nectar from? Oh and another I saw at Costco, "Wild Organic Blueberries", who knows what pesticides the Forestery service or locals might have sprayed in the area to control Dutch Elm disease, Pine beattles, mosquitoes or other dipteran flies(the females which suck the blood of animals like horses on a ranch) Organic labeling is a money grabbing scheme on gullible health nuts. Unless you can be 100% sure the produce was grown under a complete controlled environment with no chemical intervention, you just might be thowing your money and health away. If you have stomach problems, honey might be the thing you need. The antibacterial activity of honey is effective against the bacteria Helicobacter Pylori which causes stomac ulcers. H-Pylori overgrows if you are taking an acid reducing medication like Omeprazole. If you have heartburn for three months or over, see your doctor, it could be a more serious problem. |
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2/14/2012 1:22 pm |
Dinty right. My point is that cattle raisers do not adhere to the instructions because they think no one will ever know the difference.
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2/13/2012 7:15 am |
I remember feeding cattle in the early 60s. The use of terramycin etc. in feed was becoming the norm. Instructions were to remove terramycin from feed approx. 60 days before selling for consumption. The problem was in knowing which ones we would sell 60 days later and how to keep them separate from those we would keep. Go figure.
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Honey is the only food on earth I know of which will not spoil. That within it's self should tell us something. The problem today is we have so much counterfeit honey. They heat it which kills all the enzyme's in it; then mix it with corn syrup. The mixture is 50-50 so from one pint of real honey they get two pints of honey. . The beginning of life, conception..
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2/12/2012 1:11 pm |
I think the old saying "There's one born every minute" fits! Same as those labels that read "Made In America" where 99% of the garment was finished outside, then imported where a sweat shop tacked on a couple of buttons...hence..."Made in America." Just because you have silenced a man does not mean you have changed his mind.
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I question a lot of "organic" products. You are right about the birds and the bees...and the flowers and the trees (just popped in my head so I added that). We have friends that have a blueberry farm, gonna ask if they spray. Now you have me questioning EVERYTHING organic.
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Dinty: Both my kids were in Arizona to visit last month. My son is such a health nut. I told him exactly what you just wrote in your blog but some people cannot see the forest through the trees. I think many time the health nuts expend so much energy trying to stay healthy their stress levels go through the roof. I have had stomach issues most of my life and finally a few years ago figured out why. I have a condition of ulcerative colitis which is an autoimmune disease and is similiar to Crohns disease. The doc said changing my diet will not make much of a difference so I eat what I want. I'm going to enjoy my life as much as possible by exercise, eating right, and keeping stress levels down. Bruja The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little. W. R. Inge
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Let me tell you about the birds and the bees
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