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Article #377: Organic Food Recipes

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Is Organic Food really better? I believe bell peppers, celery and nectarines.
it to be so. By buying organic fruits and Onions and avocados score the lowest.
vegetables will cut the amount of More offenders of pesticide carriers are
pesticides in your body by an strawberries, cherries, pears, imported
unbelievable 90%. grapes, spinach, lettuce and potatoes. If
In Canada, it has been said in Chatelaine you use organic, once again, you will
September 2007 that: 'no dairy product have reduced approximately 90% of
produced in Canada - organic or not - pesticides.
contain growth hormones.' This is a good Even in Beef, the director of McGill
thing and thanks to a federal decision to Office for Science Society and department
ban bovine growth hormone. Some experts of chemistry admitted that there are
link high amounts of rbST to breast and trace amounts of hormones in conventional
prostate cancer. In Canada milk is so meat. Beef cattle is raised in a strictly
highly regulated that if even a trace of controlled environment that is designed
antibiotic is found the entire load is to produce the most meat at the least
destroyed. But there is a possibility of cost. We can't blame the cattle rancher
pesticide residue that can still exist in as it is simply a smart business decision
conventional milk. So what would your to stimulate the growth of the rancher's
choice be? product. He's not growing cows for fun.
Organic Milk would be mine. Especially The regulation has to start at the top
considering that milk is used in a lot of and the only way to influence the
recipes. industry is to insist on organic food
Fruits and vegetables grown organically, products. Would you believe that beer and
certainly would be a positive choice and eggs contain even more estrogenic
used in organic food recipes, it feels compounds?
much safer knowing they are not covered I believe that the more often you use a
in pesticides. food, you should consider buying organic,
Did you know that the following veggies especially knowing that eggs have
and fruits are in the top five produce estrogenic compounds in them and we use
that when you eat them, the contaminants eggs to cook with frequently.
show up in your body:peaches, apples,






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