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"Raw milk and cream? Geez, around these parts, you and your source would be rounded up as dangerous criminals. Heaven forbid any raw milk should get off the farm. I think we had a guy up here (Ontario) who formed a cooperative to supply raw milk to…"

"I should think prevailing wind direction would be just as important. We put up a couple of those retractable 4-line things inside the house too for really cold days or rain days -- or even for things we'd prefer not to have the birds dive bomb.…"

"Jim, I'm merely posting information for people inform their own decisions. I'll take my grampa's advice and not discuss politics in "mixed" company. :)"

"Cornelia, what other country has better, purer, more efficient food growth than than the USA? Why should we cede more control to a government that is obviously trying to move our economy toward a more socialist approach thru more government…"

"Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser on S 510 "A Stale Food Fight" THE best opportunity in a generation to improve the safety of the American food supply will come as early as Monday night, when the Senate is scheduled to vote on the F.D.A.…"

"I'm by no means an expert, but that's happened on some of ours too, yet the fruit is still good -- I guess I just assumed that the plants were shunting all their resources to the fruit, and letting the leaves go. Could that be?"

"Thanks for that! I'm a bit relieved... although really, when you see some of the stuff going on, the stuff with Monsanto, and how secretive and litigious some of the big food producers are getting, it makes it easy to be paranoid."

"There's a lot of misinformation out there being spread about this bill, partly because it keeps getting changed and rewritten, in addition to being renumbered with every new incarnation. Fortunately, the good folks at Snopes have debunked it as…"