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		jmsduran on May 8, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Food Practices Banned in Europe But Allowed in the... I wonder if livestock producers still feed Arsenic to livestock meant for organic products? It would be a shame if they do this by exploiting the technicality that Arsenic is entered through the feed in "organic form".

aschreyer on May 8, 2013 [–]

Here "organic form" means organic as in organic chemistry, not organic food.

jff on May 8, 2013 | [–]

And yet if your arsenic comes from a "natural source", you can feed it to animals and still call them organic.

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