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Did Your Shopping List Kill a Songbird?

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Rebecca
- 159 days ago - nytimes.com

Each year, as we continue to demand out-of-season fruits and vegetables, we ensure that fewer and fewer songbirds will return from migrating south. Pesticides used south of the border are killing them and threaten us. Choose organic and in season.

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Elena Pintilie (424)

Monday March 31, 2008, 6:08 am
wow ... "Organic bananas should also be on your list. Bananas are typically grown with one of the highest pesticide loads of any tropical crop. Although bananas present little risk of pesticide ingestion to the consumer, the environment where they are grown is heavily contaminated"
I would have never guessed!
Thank you for the article!

Joycey B. (490)

Monday March 31, 2008, 6:58 am
I choose organic. Noted with thanks Rebecca.

Daniel Barker (30)

Monday March 31, 2008, 3:39 pm
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, as the Abolitionists and the RSPCA learned in the nineteenth century.

It is up to us as good citizens to spread the word about what we are doing. Tell everyone about eating food out of season affects birds and the ecology.

People are learning - witness how vegetarian/flexitarian is becoming mainstream so quickly.

I will tell the Polk county peace group the message.

Eternal Optimist (116)

Tuesday April 1, 2008, 5:45 am
Noted with thanks Rebecca :)

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