Thank you for this. Very helpful.

Steve Lord

--- In Alternative_Medicine_Forum@yahoogroups.com, Rocky Ward
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> The Top Ten Foods to Buy Organic
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> 1. Meats: These are high on the food chain, and thus can
concentrate chemicals from the animals' diets in their fatty tissues.
> 2. Dairy Products: Also high on the food chain and rich in fats,
which is where harmful chemicals become stored.
> 3. Fish: while not strictly organic, it is critical to buy wild
fish and avoid ALL farmed fish, which can contain high levels of
contaminants.
> 4. Berries: Strawberries, raspberries and other berries including
grapes have a thin, absorbent skin that you eat.  These fruits are
heavily sprayed and tend to absorb more of the chemicals that they
come in contact with during production.
> 5. Salad crops: Lettuce, spinach and celery are highly sprayed and
have no outer shell to protect the part you eat - the leaf!
> 6. Mushrooms: mushrooms are highly absorbent and conventional
growing uses powerful fungicides between crops to keep stray species
from invading the intended crop.
> 7. Root crops: Conventional potatoes, yams, carrots, onions and
other root crops can be sprayed with fungicides as well as
pesticides, and the parts you eat grow in direct contact with the
chemicals.
> 8. Bananas: Banana plantations use up to 20 times more pesticides
per acre than crops grown in industrialized countries. Conventional
bananas are often grown with a blue plastic bag of pesticides placed
over the soft, absorbent skin of the fruit.  (my comment: are you
kidding me right now?  This is scary awful!)
> 9. Waxed fruit: That shiny apple has a wax coating that locks in
the pesticides and makes them very difficult to wash off.
> 10. Coffee and Tea: Technically not "foods," but hot-water brewing
can concentrate the residual pesticides used in the growing process
while it is extracting the good stuff.
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> "Get off your ass and take your government back." ~Rocky Ward
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