Guest guest Posted December 31, 2005 Report Share Posted December 31, 2005 Thanks for this practical advice, Ron. This is a pervasive problem that I'm sure annoys most of us and I'm glad to see more retailers using the stickers with removable tabs in the past several years. Some stickers are just plain impossible to remove completely. I'm skeptical that soaking a fruit in warm water for any amount of time will thoroughly remove all sticky residue from the fruits. I usually have the most trouble with apples, especially those I buy from Whole Foods, though less often than I did a year or more ago. I'm surprised more raw foodists & vegans aren't aware of the different PLU distinctions, at least recognizing the 4's from the 9's. Some Trader Joe's employees aren't even aware of the differences either, so I occasionally educate them or other customers to recognize these distinctions. Thanks & Happy New Year to all. Peace, David The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites or women for men." --Alice Walker, Forward to "The Dreaded Comparison" by Marjorie Spiegel"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country."--Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, 1908 Try the New Netscape Mail Today! Virtually Spam-Free | More Storage | Import Your Contact Listhttp://mail.netscape.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 "Conventional" in produce lingo simply means "grown with pesticides." If you want to be truly technical, you'd recognize "organic" as the real "conventional" produce since the former merely refers to crops grown without additives. Howard Lyman has remarked in his past lectures that until 1945, all crops were grown organically without such certification. Only after WW II ended did the advent of pesticides on edible crops begin when the petro-chemical industry needed to find a new raison d'etre. Their poisons were no longer profitable to produce chemical weapons against our military foes, so they persuaded farmers via a sophisticated public relations campaign known as the "Green Revolution" that they would substantially accelerate their profit margins by spreading their poisons all over their crops while clever propaganda euphemized the inherent dangers of these substances for human consumption. At the same time, our taxes continually subsidized experiments in which nonhuman animals were, and still are, force-fed these poisons in order to simultaneously prove they were both safe at certain levels and dangerous above certain levels. This is obviously confusing on the surface, but Alix Fano critically assessed this history in her well-researched expose of the vivisection industry's environmental impact, entitled, Lethal Laws : Animal Testing, Human Health and Environmental Policy. You may, or should be, interested to know that many of the self-described "environmental" organizations for which many of us traditionally hold deep respect, adamantly support these animal experiments against the better judgment of intellectually honest scientists who reject them on empirical grounds. Suffice to say, simplicity is bliss. Namaste, David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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