[Fern]

At the grocery store, which usually wins out? Buying organic foods free of pesticides, antibiotics and preservaties are cheaper prices for all of the above?

I have to say that in the past lower price would always grab me, but i thought this month i would do a little experiement. Instead of squashing those little impulses to buy organic due to their high price, I'm going to buy as much organic as i want and see how much more i really end up spenidng. I expect it will be more, but perhaps not so much more that i can't keep doing it.

Lately all the stories on mercury in canned tuna, arsenic in commerically bred chicken and pesticides on thoses green grapes we all love from Chile have me running scared. This stuff is cumulative and just builds up in your body.

I'm even fighting SO now who wants to move the veggie garden from an area with less sun to an area with full sun, but underneath where an old pressure treated lumber (leaches arsenic into soil) playhouse stood. Even with a soil test, i don't feel comfortable eating produce from that spot, but as usual, he doesn't seemed concerned.