To Buy or Not to Buy Organic: What You Need to Know to Choose the Healthiest, Safest, Most Earth-Friendly Food (Paperback)

August 29, 2009 by admin  
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To Buy or Not to Buy Organic: What You Need to Know to Choose the Healthiest, Safest, Most Earth-Friendly Food

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“A slim, handy guide to how our food is produced and how to choose what to buy.” — Culinate.com, 6/8/07I’ve been hesitant to question the organic label because it offers such an easy answer, and I’ve worried that if I begin to tug on that string, pretty soon my whole natural fiber sweater will be unraveled and I won’t have a dominant food doctrine to blindly follow…Burke, who is a journalist and former chef, seeks to answer that question by delving into the polit (more…)

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10 Responses to “To Buy or Not to Buy Organic: What You Need to Know to Choose the Healthiest, Safest, Most Earth-Friendly Food (Paperback)”
  1. Anise says:

    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Finally, a book on Organics that tells you WHY
    Like most books on Organics, the short version of this book is that when at all possible, you should buy Organic.

  2. Nsombi says:

    5.0 out of 5 stars
    To buy or not to buy organic
    This is a great book. It covers information about all the different herbisides, fungisides pestisides & more. It’s mindblowing what toxins & poisons are in our food.

  3. Lajos says:

    1.0 out of 5 stars
    Print Too Small To Read
    The information might be useful but the print is way to small to comfortably read. I wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone for this reason.

  4. Itzel says:

    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Putting the Icing on the Organic Gardening Cake
    Being a 15-year organic gardening veteran and seeing more and more organic products in the grocery store had me curious — where did it come from and is it truly organic.

  5. Octavius says:

    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Very informative, helpful
    This book is very helpful in figuring out when to buy organic, non-organic and/or local.

  6. Ryann says:

    4.0 out of 5 stars
    Good to know!
    The author seems to have done her research! I recommend this book. It has a shopping guide at the end, which helps to see which things you should buy organic, which things don’t…

  7. Fidella says:

    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Great for the organics beginner!
    I bought this book because I was trying to learn more about organics. This was very informative. It was written by a mother, so it was very helpful in my search about the…

  8. Fifi says:

    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Easy to Read!
    This is an awesome book and answered just what I wanted answered. I was wanting to buy organic not just for my health, but also for the environment.

  9. Vidar says:

    5.0 out of 5 stars
    answers the question being asked…
    Because I haven’t been able to grow a garden of late, I’m forced to shop for most of my groceries. What I wanted to know is what I should buy or not buy.

  10. Macha says:

    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Big Red Juicy Glow in the Dark Strawberries
    65 diffrent organophsphates are registered for use in strawberry farming. So go ahead pop another one in your mouth. Why are today’s teens so big and tall?

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