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Save Our Organic Standards
It is OK for the Department to set rules for what is organic food, but organic must continue to mean: not sprayed, and not raised with commercial fertilizer. Period.
(1) NO on irradiated food as "organic." Irradiation of filthy food with gamma rays is a profitable way to dispose of deadly nuclear wastes, storage of which costs millions of dollars yearly. But what are the effects on those who eat irradiated food?. We know that irradiation increases degeneration of cell nuclei, disturbances related to cell division, chromosome breaks and mutations; it decreases fertility and growth of offspring in animals. It reduces resistance to infections, increases spleen weight indicative of stressed, weakened immunity, and significantly increases cancer. These effects occur even though irradiated food is not itself radioactive.
It is OK for the Department to set rules for what is organic food, but organic must continue to mean: not sprayed, and not raised with commercial fertilizer. Period.