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Just because food is grown in a non-organic/commercial system, doesn't necessarily mean it's grown without using manure as a fertilizer. There have been many c
by sprocket 14y ago
Just because food is grown in a non-organic/commercial system, doesn't necessarily mean it's grown without using manure as a fertilizer. There have been many cases of non-organic products being contaminated with E.Coli as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_North_American_E._coli_O157:H7_outbreaks
Pesticides also don't necessarily inhibit bacterial growth (though granted, they probably don't help it), so I don't buy into the assertion that their application is somehow sanitizing your food.
- Turing_Machine 14y agoIt's not that pesticides sanitize the food. It's that chemical fertilizers don't potentially introduce disease organisms into the field the way that manure does.
- ars 14y agoProperly processed manure does not do that. Compost it first at a high temperature, then mix it into the soil over the winter. You don't just take fresh manure that throw it on the field.