From: wrmd@iastate.edu

Subject: Re: Calcium: Not milk but leafy vegs? Organically grown?

> From: linda/richard <kyote@wolfenet.com>

> Subject: Re: Calcium: Not milk but leafy vegs? Pesticides+herbicides!

>

>

> >> traces of pesticides/herbicides and antibiotics and other meds used to keep

> >> cows on their

> >> feet.

> >> much better sources are green leafy vegtables, seaweeds (like hijiki)

> >

> >When I read this response, I chuckled to myself. What about the

> >herbicides and pesticides on the vegetables? Vegetables even produce

> >substances to ward of bugs and disease that are sometimes more toxic

> >than what is applied to them by a farmer.

> >

> >Kevin Kelly, LRD

> >

> how about eating organically grown vegtables then?

> i'd like to know what substances plants produce that are more toxic than

> what a farmer uses on his fields. i'll take my chances with the plants any day.

>

> richard

>

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> richard and linda seattle wa.

Mycotoxins such as aflatoxin or fumonisins produced by molds that will be

growing wild.

Iowa State University Graduate Student working on fumonisin

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