Dave Smith > scripsit in
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> Steve Pope wrote:
>>
>>
>> >Am I being paranoid, or should I just go ahead and make the
>> >cookies. I have nothing against China per se, just their
>> >food track record isn't so hot...
>>
>> You are not being paranoid. Ginger is sometimes not safe.
>> You can mitigate most (not all) of the risk by buying organic
>> ginger.
>
> Would organic ginger not include that which is fertilized with
> human or other excrement?

Not the Nine O'Clock News had a song about that, something about
all the weasel bits the harvester cut off...