Re: OT Oranges

[Guest guest]

If you read up on commercial growing practices, you'll find that

citrus fruits are also often sprayed with numerous chemicals,

including artificial sweeteners.

In One Straw Revolution, by fukuoka, there's mention of how the

Japanese want their foods to look a certain way -- there's ONE

perfect size of this that or the other vegetable or fruit and thus

the commercial growers use lots of chemicals to get what they

consider the perfect 'look' in the crop. Fukuoka didn't spray and

didn't have perfect fruit, but he marketed it to those who cared

about their health and the taste.

We had some guests come through town recently who live in thailand

and the neighboring farms are growing fruits for the market in

japan. They told us that those farm laborers are living severely

shortened lives from the chemicals (the woman told us reports of the

farm workers actually dying within 3 years of working on these

polluted farms) and that they can't drink their water because of the

run-off. They have to haul in their drinking water.

Our food supply is really contaminated, but we can choose to support

those who are growing safe food and grow more of our own foods. the

learning curve is steep, but well worth it!

Blessings,