ORGANIC FOOD – IS IT REALLY?
One of the things we do in the Simple Home Detox Program in Chapter 13 of the book is eliminate as many chemical irritants as possible from the diet during the one-week cleanse. And one of the best ways to do that is to eat purely organic if at all possible. But those ‘certified-organic’ labels don’t always mean what we’d hope.
In fact, Michael J. Potter, founder of Eden Foods (a large producer of organic food products in the US) goes so far as to call the certified-organic label “a fraud and refuses to put it on Eden’s products.”
A fascinating, and disturbing read: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/business/organic-food-purists-worry-about-big-companies-influence.html?_r=2&