Sunday, April 29, 2007

Canadian Woman Told Food Was Organic, But Was It?

"For more than a decade, a 52-year-old Canadian woman paid premium prices for what she thought was organic chicken and beef. Eating a strict diet of organic meat was part of a doctor-recommended strategy to help the woman cope with a yeast overgrowth that attacks the intestinal tract and can break into the bloodstream.

But, when the woman began talking to another vendor, while searching for a rare type of organic chicken, she was stunned to learn the person she bought meat from for 12 years was really selling conventionally grown product with an "organic'' label affixed to it."


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This proliferation of sham organics is driving me crazy.