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Report: 37.4% of organic produce mislabeled
Meirav Crystal
Published: 06.05.12, 08:12
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1. Go back to using DDT as a pesticide. It is not estrogenic
Rivkah   (05.06.12)
or carcinogenic to humans. It won't lower male sperm count like estrogenic pesticides and DDT won't turn females into estrogen overdosed females. DDT won't cause male babies to have tiny genitles or female babies to grow breasts and pubic hair since it does not have an estrogenic structure. DDT was one of the safest pesticide for human use. The patent ran out and chemical companies couldn't make as much money on it so they got it banned to force the use of toxic estrogenic pesticides.
2. #37.4 %
Observer ,   Israel   (05.06.12)
Thats a pretty high number for israel ie about 40 % crooks and 60 % honest, BRAVO !!!. By the way this is far better than our government as an honesty index.
3. I have survived all these very many years
miri ,   israel   (05.06.12)
on non-organic foods and absolutely refuse to pay high prices for supposed organic products (and as I suspected, not all produce is what they say it is !).
4. Organic exists only in people's minds
Organic my ass...   (05.06.12)
No farmer would make a living growing organic.
5. Organic
Arthur ,   Houston, Texas   (05.06.12)
Non organic vegetables are sprayed in the daytime Organic vegetables are sprayed at night. This is the reason it is so expensive as you have to pay the night shift which sprays.
6. Give Us Names!
Zoe ,   Tel Aviv,Israel   (05.07.12)
We want names of the stores proved to be satisfactory, lacking and in violation! As consumers we are entitled to know.
7. In the USA there is as much rivalry in Organic stamps...
Dorothy Friend ,   Tel Aviv   (05.07.12)
... as there is in Kashrut stamps! Quite funny.
8. Tell us which stores make false organic food claims
Judith Ronat M. D. ,   Kfar Saba, Israel   (05.08.12)
The only way to combat this cheating is by boycott, and we can only boycott if you tell us which stores are lying.
9. Pesticides are inevitable
Organic ,   Toronto, Canada   (05.08.12)
It has been proven that due to wind and forces of nature, that organic produce is continously subject to some of the same pesticides as organic. If you have an organic farm in close proximity there will be some residual pesticides.
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