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"David E. Ross" wrote:

Good-bye from this thread. NO, I'm not abandoning rec.gardens. But if
you post a message there that I seem to ignore, I might not have seen
it.

And thus another Monsanto Dracula shrinks from the illumination of
enlightenment. Good riddance. People who can't justify their follies,
should insinuate themselves into the shadows. Follies in the sense of
its' French meaning, "madness". What else could one call the attacking
of our life support system on this planet? This planet that bore us and
cared for us. And what do these fools complain of, that they are
reprimanded for poisoning the air, the water, the soil, and the food.
Chemical fertilizers kill soil. Pesticides kill soil. Herbicides kill
soil. GMO "Roundup" ready plants allow them to kill more soil.
Do they make sensible counter arguments? No. Because there are none.
Pesticides allow you to kill a pest at little effort but these fools
don't want to consider the consequences. The pests can be controlled in
other manners. Like David who wishes to spray poisons for a cosmetic
problem. David is a southern Californian to who appearances are
everything. Worth more than life itself apparently. For any pest there
is a solution that won't poison the environment. You may have to make
more of an effort, but you will be saving the planet.
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But back to the polyphenols, which may hint at the nature of that link.
Why in the world should organically grown blackberries or corn contain
significantly more of these compounds? The authors of Davis study
haven't settled the question, but they offer two suggest theories. The
reason plants produce these compounds in the first place is to defend
themselves against pests and diseases; the more pressure from pathogens,
the more polyphenols a plant will produce. These compounds, then, are
the products of natural selection and, more specifically, the
coevolutionary relationship between plants and the species that prey on
them. Who would have guessed that humans evolved to profit from a diet
of these plant pesticides? Or that we would invent an agriculture that
then deprived us of them?

pg. 79
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
http://www.amazon.com/Omnivores-Dile...ls/dp/01430385
83/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206815576&sr=1-1
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- Billy
"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being
is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the
moment of conception until death." - Rachel Carson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI29wVQN8Go

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072040.html