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On 14 Feb, 01:11, sanforized <sanfori...@naol.com> wrote:
> foolsrushin wrote:
> > On 12 Feb, 15:30, * US * wrote:
> >> Foods are less nutritious now.
>
> > Absolutely, *US*. In Greece, mainly vegetarian, I found, even in
> > Athens, the scent of oranges when you passed a grove stopped you in
> > your steps. The apples had often been attacked by everything, flying
> > or crawling, that could get at them - attesting to their quality.
> > Maybe 'non-organic' out to be the marker - a la Russell!
>
> > Great point!
>
> My dad, back in the 1950's, used to buy
> chewing tobacco, boil a wad in about a
> half-gallon of water, strain the results,
> and use that as an insecticide to spray
> garden vegetables.
>
> He figured correctly that since tobacco
> has killed humans, during his lifetime,
>   in greater numbers than any other thing,
> the stuff should serve well killing insects.
>
> It did.
>
> By the time the vegetables were ripe and
> ready to eat the tobacco had been washed
> away by rain and they got a final wash/rinse
> at the kitchen sink.
>
> He lived into his mid 80's and my mom just
> past 95, so it appears there was no ill
> effect. Their children are now in their
> 60's and 70's. It speaks well for using
> natural insecticides. Did our home grown
> qualify as "organic?"

Amazing and delightful. My dad was a policeman, though at heart, two
other things - a reader and a gardener. He loved gardening, not only
as an escape from domestic rows, though we had few! Organic is not
bloated, fed, protected cells full of water, all looking enticingly
the same, so for sure you qualify as organic. To get anything decent,
drive down into the country!

My dad grew various herbs in between leaf vegetables  E.g. -
horseradish, tansy, thyme, always deterring something, and our herbal
patch was, so to speak, distributed amongst the things we were mainly
needing for protein, etc. - yet also a sort of biogenetic shield.' We
were meat eaters, though! Not a lot, when I come to think about heaped
up plates of delicious vegatables!
--
foolsrushin.