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  Jail time for Dr. Andrew Weils?

  Posted on May 27, 2011 by gypsychant in Mind/Body/Soul

  There is a fine and possible jail time from 1-2 years for posting scientific facts that state an herb or supplement helps cure something. So even though studies show cherries help ease arthritis and gout, they can not put that on their label or web site. If they do they could face time in jail.

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  Argument for Organic Food

  Posted on March 25, 2011 by gypsychant in Earth Love

  My son’s college paper about his take on Organic Foods. Watch this documentary, WOAO, short for What’s Organic About Organic. Take action and become a Food Citizen.
  What is now accepted as the “conventional” agricultural system really only began about sixty years ago in the aftermath of World War II. As the war ended these corporations needed to find other alternative methods of distribution. DDT helped start the “Pesticide Era”. Pesticides are known to cause nerve damage, water pollution, soil contamination.

  Here is Juma’s paper.

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