http://www.metafilter.com/tags/organicfarming Posts tagged with 'organicfarming' at MetaFilter. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:37:57 -0800 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:37:57 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/78119/Antibiotics%2Din%2Dorganic%2Dvegetables%2Dand%2Dhoney Worried about antibiotics in your beef? <a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=vegetables-contain-antibiotics">Organic vegetables</a> (and pirated <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/78083/Honey-Horrors">honey</a>) may be no better. 90% of animal antibiotics are excreted as dung which is then used as fertilizer. The amounts are smaller but cumulative, particularly in potatoes, lettuce. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.78119 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 08:37:57 -0800 antibiotics honey honeypirates organic organicfarming stbalbach