FDA Non-Organic Ingredients


	FDA Non-Organic Ingredients

dcaCRL

7-26-2007 3:19 PM

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7-27-2007 9:44 AM

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The farmer tidies up the farm and produces organic food for which he can ask for halfway to a fair price.
Along come the shareholders and change the rules and the farmer collapses mentally and suicides.

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