Methyl Oxide

[margrace]

The US environmental protection agency granted temporary approval for the use of methyl iodide, a highly toxic fumigant favoured by large scale strawbery and other fruit growers to sterilize the soil ahead of planting

by Tom Philpott, Sterile soil, dirty hands

"The soil and health 1947 says "The soil is, as a matter of fact, full of live organisms. It is essential to conceive of it as something pulsating with life, not as a dead or inert mass."

So what you get is beautiful strawberries with no nutritional value.

Read The End of Food by Thomas Pawlick

[Fortunata]

The US environmental protection agency granted temporary approval for the use of methyl iodide, a highly toxic fumigant favoured by large scale strawbery and other fruit growers to sterilize the soil ahead of planting

by Tom Philpott, Sterile soil, dirty hands

"The soil and health 1947 says "The soil is, as a matter of fact, full of live organisms. It is essential to conceive of it as something pulsating with life, not as a dead or inert mass."

So what you get is beautiful strawberries with no nutritional value.

Read The End of Food by Thomas Pawlick

Even without methyl iodide soil is not as fertile as it once was thanks to various chemical fertilizers, pesticides, over planting, etc. The nutritional value of almost any food we eat now is not what it used to be and not what we need it to be. Organic produce is gaining popularity very quickly because we don't want to eat chemicals and pesticides but how much more nutritional is it?

[Wilber]

Even without methyl iodide soil is not as fertile as it once was thanks to various chemical fertilizers, pesticides, over planting, etc. The nutritional value of almost any food we eat now is not what it used to be and not what we need it to be. Organic produce is gaining popularity very quickly because we don't want to eat chemicals and pesticides but how much more nutritional is it?

Problem is, tests have shown that people who eat organic foods have just as many toxins in them as people who don't. Probably has more to do with where you live than what you eat.

We're hooped.

[bush_cheney2004]

So what you get is beautiful strawberries with no nutritional value.

Actually, the strawberries are fine. Consumers who don't want strawberries from fumigated soil can seek true love elsewhere. I don't like chicken crap on my eggs either, so I encourage their cleaning before market.