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Re:Study finds organic food no more nutritive than non-organic by sprocket on Monday September 03, 2012 @07:49PM (#4472347)
Just because food is grown in a non-organic/commercial system, doesn't necessarily mean it's grown without using manure as a fertilizer. There have been many cases of non-organic products being contaminated with E.Coli as well:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_North_American_E._coli_O157:H7_outbreaks
Pesticides also don't necessarily inhibit bacterial growth (though granted, they probably don't help it), so I don't buy into the assertion that their application is somehow sanitizing your food.
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Re:Study finds organic food no more nutritive than non-organic by Turing_Machine on Monday September 03, 2012 @08:09PM (#4472422)
It's not that pesticides sanitize the food.

It's that chemical fertilizers don't potentially introduce disease organisms into the field the way that manure does.

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Re:Study finds organic food no more nutritive than non-organic by ars on Monday September 03, 2012 @09:35PM (#4472656)
Properly processed manure does not do that. Compost it first at a high temperature, then mix it into the soil over the winter.

You don't just take fresh manure that throw it on the field.

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