| ||||||||||
 
Dr. Ronald P. Rogers CHIROPRACTOR Support for your body's natural healing capabilities 270-384-5554 Click here for details 
  
Columbia Gas Dept. GAS LEAK or GAS SMELL Contact Numbers 24 hrs/ 365 days 270-384-2006 or 9-1-1 Call before you dig 
Visit ColumbiaMagazine's Directory of Churches Addresses, times, phone numbers and more for churches in Adair County Find Great Stuff in ColumbiaMagazine's Classified Ads Antiques, Help Wanted, Autos, Real Estate, Legal Notices, More... 
|
Food: How can anyone claim their farm produce is truly organic? I guess, at this point in time, with the current world situation, purposely eliminating as many chemicals and unnatural growth aids in the food supply route is the best that we can do. Hopefully, it helps in some way. - JOYCE M. COOMER By Joyce M. Coomer Personal Commentary A friend and I were discussing the problem of getting "healthy" foods since so much crop and animal production is planned around rapid growth and lowered investment, a situation that lends itself to overuse of antibiotics, growth hormones, herbicides and pesticides, and no telling what other chemicals. In the course of mulling this over for a few days, something occurred to me: How can anyone claim their farm produce is truly organic? I know that people who grow organic produce and livestock don't use chemical fertilizers or growth hormones, nor give animals antibiotics. Nor do they utilize herbicides and pesticides. Compost and cover crops can be used for fertilization, along with other natural items. But . . . Think about it. Nearly any soil you can test in nearly the entire world is going to show some contamination from vehicle exhaust, chemicals of all types, herbicides and pesticides that have gotten into the groundwater, antibiotics that are excreted from all animal life (including homo sapiens) and get into the groundwater, anything that gets into the groundwater winds up in rainfall, water from municipal sources not only has above mentioned contamination but added chemicals to "purify" the water, and if you are utilizing a well on your own property, everything mentioned above is also in that well water. I guess, at this point in time, with the current world situation, purposely eliminating as many chemicals and unnatural growth aids in the food supply route is the best that we can do. Hopefully, it helps in some way. Joyce M. Coomer This story was posted on 2015-08-20 14:55:26
Printable: this page is now automatically formatted for printing.
Have comments or corrections for this story? Use our contact form and let us know. More articles from topic Food:
Epicurean Kentuckian comment: Moore's Spaghetti hit the spot Maury clarifies Apple Butter Policy: It's for her church (.) Maury Lewis making apple butter for church project this year Charles Marshburn finds a great hamburger Irish Cooking: Wants to know what's cooking Taste of Ireland at Adair Extension Office Thu 23 Jul 2015 Harvest Cafe menus: 1) Catering menu 2) On the Go menu (Ad) Epicurean Kentuckian: Settling the hotdog issue in heavenly way Ken Gilpin remembers Great American Hotdog The Hot Dog Issue: Finally a controversy of consequence View even more articles in topic Food |
 
115 Jamestown St. Columbia, KY. 270-384-2496 
  
   
 Provided by the Adair Co Fiscal Court and the Adair Co. Emergency Mgt. Agency 
|
||||||||
|
| ||||||||||
|
Quick Links to Popular Features
Looking for a story or picture? Try our Photo Archive or our Stories Archive for all the information that's appeared on ColumbiaMagazine.com. | ||||||||||
|
Contact us: Columbia Magazine and columbiamagazine.com are published by Linda Waggener and Pen Waggener, PO Box 906, Columbia, KY 42728. Please use our contact page, or send questions about technical issues with this site to webmaster@columbiamagazine.com. All logos and trademarks used on this site are property of their respective owners. All comments remain the property and responsibility of their posters, all articles and photos remain the property of their creators, and all the rest is copyright 1995-Present by Columbia Magazine. Privacy policy: use of this site requires no sharing of information. Voluntarily shared information may be published and made available to the public on this site and/or stored electronically. Anonymous submissions will be subject to additional verification. Cookies are not required to use our site. However, if you have cookies enabled in your web browser, some of our advertisers may use cookies for interest-based advertising across multiple domains. For more information about third-party advertising, visit the NAI web privacy site.
| ||||||||||
