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Scientific arguments for eating Organic/non-GMO food?
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RE: Scientific arguments for eating Organic/non-GMO food?
June 10, 2015 at 6:49 pm (This post was last modified: June 10, 2015 at 8:34 pm by Pyrrho.)
(June 10, 2015 at 4:46 pm)Alex K Wrote: In my neck of the woods, the "ecological" wine growers aren't allowed to use synthetic poison and instead throw copper sulfate on it (the actual vitriol). To me that sounds like a farce.

Alex, copper sulfate is not jut used as an herbicide, fungicide, and pesticide.  It is actually an additive put into wine.  See:

http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/em016/EM016.pdf

http://www.winebusiness.com/tools/?go=wi...alc&cid=50

http://www.wineadds.com/faq/copper

http://morebeer.com/public/wine/Product%.../CuSO4.pdf

http://www.extension.iastate.edu/wine/si...trial1.pdf

http://www.vintessential.com.au/resource...-wine.html

The majority of copper sulfate in wine is not likely due to any residue from spraying the grapes, but from adding it directly into the wine.

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— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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RE: Scientific arguments for eating Organic/non-GMO food? - by Pyrrho - June 10, 2015 at 6:49 pm

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