Sir Albert Howard and Rudolf Steiner, the fathers of the organic movement, were agreed that clean healthy earth would defend plants from disease and pests. Of course they thought organic food would be grown and then sold locally. They had no idea that organic food would be turned into just another commercial crop and trucked to distant markets -- with all the dangers involved.

Take Andy Valy and Susanna Chen, a couple who drank organic carrot juice (from California) in 2006 and subsequently contracted botulism, one of the deadliest forms of food poisoning. Chen has been immobilized since then and neither will full recover.

Valy says in the Toronto Star that he picked up a bottle of Bolthouse Farms carrot juice --it was organic, after all, so he figured it was the "healthier" choice.