"Tim Tyler" wrote in message ...
In uk.rec.gardening Tumbleweed
wrote:

: You miss the point, 'organic' plants are also full of insecticides and
: fungicides, naturally evolved to be super efficient at such stuff as
: mimicking animal hormones, (see the recent news on soy milk, killing
insects
: etc.
: When a random sample of around 50 of these chemicals was tested to the
same
: standards as man-made pesticides, 50% of them were found to be toxic, in
: fact *much more* toxic than would be allowed for man-made chemicals.
Thus
: the man made pesticides about which you complain are less toxic than
half
: these naturally ocurring chemicals. You complain about 'junk' when you
refer
: to man-made chemicals that have undergone rigorous testing, yet you eat
: plants full of hundreds of untested, probably more dangerous chemicals,
with
: no worries.

It makes reasonable sense:

Our digestive tract has evolved to cope with natural toxins.

Hmm. Let's just see how my digestive tract has evolved to cope with this
nice pie full of shiny, succulent, tasty and digestible Atropa berries. Or
on second thoughts, maybe not. Maybe it's just a 'gut feeling', but...

Specific enzymes exist to detoxify plant toxins that were naturally in our
diet -
and they have worked well enough to get us this far.

Being smart enough not to believe this sort of guff got us this far. Being
smart enough to help evolution along with plant strains that were more
nutritious and (in some cases) less toxic got us this far.