Eat your organic spinach and get e-coli. This week's deadly outbreak of the disease has been attributed to a California company that brags that its product is safer and more environmentally friendly because it uses no petroleum-based pesticides. It does use "pelletized bat and bird guano" and chicken manure, though, which can harbor dangerous bacteria such as e-coli. A recent article in Investor's Business Daily states: "EPA studies show no health damage from trace consumption of pesticides in produce. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says fruit and vegetables are responsible for more large-scale outbreaks of food-borne illnesses than meat, poultry and eggs. Thanks to the green lobby, consumers have been talked into thinking more expensive organic is safer and healthier." The green lobby is also killing thousands of wild birds and animals through their lawsuits to stop forest management. "Rather than protecting forests and wildlife with lawsuits, activists condemn them to destruction. Massive wildfires move so fast that flames can overtake animals like deer [and] bears before they [can] escape. Streams boil and fish die. Ash fills burrows and suffocates ground dwellers. Smoke inhalation kills most animals before the flames reach them. Lawsuits are not the answer to our forests' problems. Active forest management is the only way to protect lives and property, and conserve the forests and wildlife we cherish." Over 8 million acres of forests have burned so far this year, a tragic record.
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Spinach Is Bad For You
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