Does it matter, nutritionally, whether the chickens are fed a diet consisting primarily of organically grown vegetables or one that is primarily of organically grown grains?
I know that vegans and vegetarians avoid,fur, leather, wool, cashmere, and even wine.
A example would be a strawberry. EVER NOTICE HOW AMERICA GETS STRAWBERRIES IN THE WINTERTIME? One of the two options could have happened
1. The strawberries COULD have been imported.
2. The strawberry were genetically modified by extracting the antifreeze enzyme from a flounder fish and using recombinant DNA technology to place it into its plasmids?
Do they avoid vegetables and other foods grown in manure since it USES ANIMAL PARTS?
Do they prefer ORGANIC farming???
Michelle Obama
Sludge in the Garden
by Mike Krumboltz
New homes are full of questions and possibilities. What color to paint the walls? How to arrange the furniture? What to plant in the garden? The Obama family must have asked a lot of those same questions when they moved into the White House. However, the first lady’s dreams of growing an organic vegetable garden have been dragged down by a previous resident that refuses to leave: sludge.
Various sources within the Buzz are reporting that Michelle Obama’s organic garden has been besieged by icky goo in the ground. As a result, the veggies aren’t quite what the first lady had in mind. According to Daily Finance, the National Park Service tested the soil in the vegetable patch and found highly elevated levels of lead due to sewage used as fertilizer.
So the question is: Who to blame? While dumping sewage into the ground sounds like a crime worthy of Mr. Burns from The Simpsons, the actual perpetrators were none other than the Clintons. Yep, back when Bill and Hillary were living it up in the White House, their gardening team used sewage sludge for fertilizer. The fiends!
Sounds gross, but it’s actually fairly common. However, it does mean that the highly touted organic garden will never attain organic status. The certification process doesn’t allow the use of sludge as a fertilizer substitute. And there’s another problem: If Malia and Sasha weren’t into eating their veggies before, it’s going to be that much harder to get ‘em to eat ‘em now.
http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92869?fp=1
SO I HAVE these little organic pots that i bought at walmart, thier dispable, my question is i am growing seeds for the first time, what is a fast way to make them gerimanate,do they need tol be started in doors first or dose it matter?
I visited a whole foods store yesterday for the first time. the vegetables are labled organic — but none of these vegetables had the brown spots and insect gnaw areas on them like the ones i grow in my own garden.
also — the organic beef boasted the the cows lived on fresh air, pure water and organic foods. how can one be so sure?
i think its all a scam. the prices were double of what normal foods cost.
it’s impossible to guarantee 100% that the water a cow is drinking is pure as also the air. all the food they eat would need to be 100% pure as well. then the cow would not be able to have ever had any vaccinations. herds don’t do well without vaccinations.
i’ve been told that these organic certifications are routine. who’s in charge of the testing and how often is it done?
your thoughts please.
I found this stuff sitting on the shelf on my local Smith’s. Someone help me with this one. How can ketchup be organic?
Ok so maybe the tomatoes and spices are grown more naturally without chemicals or hormones… but eh… it sits on a shelf. Which means it has preservatives. And it keeps as long as regular ketchup, which again means it has preservatives. Can preservatives be organic?
When I think organic, I think of fresh from the garden vegetables. Fresh of the tree, or vine, fruits. Fresh from the farm meats. I cannot see bottled, canned or other prepackaged items as organic.
You’re right, I haven’t been to a Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods. But I have a garden at my home. So most of my veggies are from that. I think this whole organic thing is a major marketing ploy if you really wanna know.
I want to start small by planting my own organic garden of vegetables. I live in southern california, and its august. I don’t want to get involved into something complicated, I am 17 a senior in high school, getting ready to go to college, and I want to start being more independent, its all apart of my independent/indie thing I am going for. so I want to grow my own organic vegetable garden, something small. I don’t know what vegetables to grow yet, I was thinking about some chili’s, carrots, cherry tomatoes, and Idk what else. so yeah, any tips on growing organic, what can I grow my vegetables in, times and stuff would be great, best answer and most helpful gets 10 points. cheers
hi,
im growing vegetables and i have some in pots with organic soil.. i noticed that mushrooms started growing in the pots with the organic soil.. some of them are purple kinda tall and flat, and some are whit-creamy and look like hmm close umbrellas i guess.
my questions are: 1. if you know what kind of mushrooms they are, are they poisonous?
2. in case they are, do i need to remove them? can the poison effect my plants and eventually hurt me after i eat the vegetables?
thank you.
Vegetables were growing good re potted them into recyclable paper cups and all of them just died. Yes I do water them but the top of the leaves look like they have been burned. Please help did use organic compose for the re potting.
There has recently been a lot of suggestion that tomatoes can prevent cancer because of the anti-oxidants they contain, but is it not the whole diet that causes cancer ? High sugar, salt and fat have been shown to cause cancers but people are not looking back upon knowledge that could help them understand why cancers form. If you study the macrobiotic diet it explains that cancers can be both yin and yang and result from eating yin and yang foods together. It aims to prevent and cure cancer using foods that are balanced between yin and yang including beans, pulses, rice, wholegrains and organic vegetables grown in season. The book I am reading is very interesting -
The Cancer- Prevention Diet by Michio Kushi
