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Summers will serve on the panel alongside Rajat Gupta, chairman of the board of the India School of Business; Amina J. Ibrahim, senior special assistant to the president of Nigeria; Kavita N. Ramdas, president of the Global Fund for Women; Ernesto Zedillo, former president of Mexico; and Philip Zelikow, a professor of history at the University of Virginia...
Good, Clean Eating Dr. Sanjay Gupta asked if there are real benefits to organic fruits and vegetables [Sept. 3]. He answered the question in typically contemporary fashion by analyzing only nutritional value - in other words, How does it affect me? A different answer might be reached if we look at the health of factory and farm workers who manufacture and apply chemical fertilizers and pesticides and of those who live downstream and downwind of chemical plants. How about the nutritional value of fish living in rivers or ocean dead zones polluted by agricultural runoff? What if we take into account...
...Gupta said, "Scientists have yet to document a definite, long-term negative effect of pesticides on our bodies." Pesticides are poisons designed to kill living things. It is because pesticides are harmful that the EPA and USDA have set limits on pesticide residues. These limits assume that everyone eats an average diet. If you eat more than the average amount of any one food, you exceed the safe limit. Don Steinke, VANCOUVER, WASH...
...Gupta argued that organic fruits and veggies may not be as beneficial as once thought because science hasn't proved the negative long-term effects of pesticides on humankind. On the other hand, organics may be very beneficial exactly for that reason: science hasn't proved the long-term effects of pesticide or chemical fertilizers on humankind. (FDA: Where are you?) Bart Lund, GLEN ELLEN, CALIF...
...Gupta argued that organic fruits and veggies may not be as beneficial as once thought because science hasn't proved long-term ill effects of pesticides on humans. On the other hand, organics may be very beneficial exactly for that reason: science hasn't proved the long-term effects of pesticide or chemical fertilizers on humans. Bart Lund, glen ellen, California