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Lewis Perin

(Scott Dorsey) writes:

> juliantai > wrote:
> >[...] as pointed to me earlier by Chagonwala, we drink only a few
> >grams of tea leaves each day. Only less than half is soluble in water.
> >
> >Now compared this to the other foods you eat. Another 300 grams or
> >more? Do your vegetables and fruits and meats grow in high mountain?
> >Are they TRULY organic? They don't dissolve in water, do they? Have
> >they any history of health scare? Do they kill bacteria and virus and
> >reduce cancer risk?
>
> Yes, precisely. The thing is, we drink a lot of tea which is farmed
> in developing countries under poorly-controlled conditions, and we don't
> consume many other products like that. On the other hand, if I were
> living in mainland China today, tea would be the last thing I would ever
> worry about.

I don't have numbers for this at my fingertips - does anybody within
the sound of my "voice"? - but the idea that people in developed
countries don't consume much food grown under lax controls in
less-developed countries seems, well, something I wouldn't be able to
prove. Chinese-grown garlic and ginger is definitely sold here in New
York. And there's lots of Mexican produce - how much? - that, in
reality, is how well controlled in the fields and and how well
inspected thereafter?

/Lew
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