The Rural Voice, 1989-12, Page 7FEEDBACK
Canada's 100 most popular foods for
safety tests.
The same report mentions that
from 630 documented chemical resi-
dues in food worldwide, only 384, or
less than 60 per cent, can be detected
by testing.
Next in line is the fact that none of
the tests undertaken is for palatability
or digestibility.
That is where my customers come
in. They tell me they are coming back
for more all the time because of the
difference in taste. Some new custom-
ers were amazed that they could eat
my peas without being bloated after-
wards. Even cabbage and onions are
much more easily digested.
Organic produce, when stored on
a supermarket shelf for long periods,
shrivels and dries up but does not get
mouldy and smelly like other produce
stored nearby.
For all this there is a reason: high
doses of chemical fertilizer, especially
nitrogen, are inciting plants to a style
of "forced" growth, eliminating many
of nature's safeguards in the process.
There are a goodly number of
medical doctors who are telling their
patients suffering from allergies to eat
organically grown food only. There
must be a difference, sir!
You will not pacify today's con-
sumers with the blanket statements in
your column!O
Siegfried (Ziggy) Kleinau
R. R. 4, Lion's /lead
On the Problem
Facing Pork Producers
The countervail duty of 3.6 cents
per pound applied on Canadian pork
by the U.S. makes the pork producers
in Canada feel very uneasy. To keep
the Canadian packers in the U.S.
market, Canadian producers should
come to some sort of an arrangement
to pay a share of the countervail, at
least till the problems concerning free
trade are resolved.
Definitions of injury, subsidy, and
calculation are not provided yet in the
Free Trade Agreement. It may take
five to seven years till this is done.
In the meantime, Canada will not get
exemptions from the U.S. omnibus
(cont'd)
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