In article ,
"Priscilla H. Ballou" wrote:
In article ,
Frank wrote:
http://www.wkyc.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=137098
Where are absorbed toxins stored in the grape plant? Leaves? Roots?
Fruit? Inner city soil is typically high in lead and various other
pollutants.
I have an urban organic garden on my property, and what edible plants I
grow (a fair number) are grown entirely in soil I had trucked in and
build beds with. Just being near city streets will have deposited much
lead from car exhaust, and who knows what else was dumped in the yard
before I bought the house?
Even if I did drink wine, I wouldn't drink that wine until I knew about
more about this question.
Priscilla
Boston, MA
Residues from herbicides, pesticides, and air pollution would settle on
the outside of a plant. Absorption from the soil is unlikely in that
roots facilitate the passage of certain nutrients which are required by
the vine, leaving undesired compounds and minerals to decay or wash away
with a rain.
If wine is made, the yeast will absorb any heavy metals that it may
contain. The clear wine is decanted (racked) away from the sediment
(including the yeast), which results in a wine, free from toxic levels
of heavy metals and/or pesticides.
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- Billy
Both the House and Senate budget plan would cut Social Security and Medicare, while cutting taxes on the wealthy.
Kucinich noted that none of the government programs targeted for
elimination or severe cutback in House Republican spending plans
"appeared on the GAO's list of government programs at high risk of
waste, fraud and abuse."
http://www.politifact.com/ohio/state...is-kucinich/re
p-dennis-kucinich-says-gop-budget-cuts-dont-targ/
[W]e have the situation with the deficit and the debt and spending and jobs. And itıs not that difficult to get out of it. The first thing you do is you get rid of corporate welfare. Thatıs hundreds of billions of dollars a year. The second is you tax corporations so that they donıt get away with no taxation.
- Ralph Nader
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/7/19/ralph_naders_solution_to_debt_crisis