Lisbeth, Food, and Spam
I'm going to take a break from our
lunchtime Lisbeth Longfrock series --- I've noticed that not many of
you got into the story, and the tale is starting to veer into
summertime. You can read
the ending over on the Project Gutenberg site.
Meanwhile, Daddy has pulled together some fascinating information about
the connection between food and life. David Steinman, author of Diet
for a Poisoned Planet, has kindly given us permission to reprint
excerpts from his book here. Tomorrow through Friday, tune in for
a daily dose of food wisdom, peppered with specific information about
which conventionally grown vegetables are the safest to put in your
belly.
In other completely unrelated news, Joey is working on a spam filter
for the comments section of the website. He says that the only
downside is that there may be some false-positives. So, if you
try to leave a comment and it won't work, drop me an email!
Carrots
Carrots are relatively low in pesticide saturation. Sixty-three pesticide residues were detected in thirty six samples.... The pesticides DDE, iprodione and linuron were frequently detected. Organic carrots are widely available.... They are reasonably priced. --Diet for a Poisoned Planet, David Steinman, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2007 |
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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