"Tumbleweed" wrote in message
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"Stephen Howard" wrote in message
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On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 09:16:03 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
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"Stephen Howard" wrote in message
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Oh, so it's not THAT carcinogenic then? Just a little bit perhaps?

Yes, that is correct in the sense that there is very little of the
chemical
present.
The point is that after treatment with a typical "medication", there is
even
less of the "medicine" left.

There's even less if you don't use any 'medication' ( whatever that
may be? ) in the first place.

The predominant effect, even though still negligible, is from the
carcinogen
inherently in the lettuce.

If it's negligable, why raise the issue at all?


Because the organic weenies make a *huge* song and dance about the
supposed
carcinogenic properties of certain chemicals, whereas the stuff they
actually eat (and are worried about contaminating!) can be 50x or so
*more*
carcinogenic than the chemical they are making the song and dance about!
True, both are in reality probably negligible*, which leads to two
questions, "so why do the organic weenies make such a song and dance about
it"? And " but if the weenies are so concerned about deadly chemicals why
do
they eat something far more damgerous?"

This has been raised umpteen times, and it has remained unanswered an equal
number of times.

Franz