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Plants and crops destroyed for 'food safety'

by Carolyn Lochhead in SF Chronicle July 14 — last modified July 15, 2009 06:43 AM

"Dick Peixoto planted hedges of fennel and flowering cilantro around his organic vegetable fields in the Pajaro Valley near Watsonville to harbor beneficial insects, an alternative to pesticides.

He has since ripped out such plants in the name of food safety, because his big customers demand sterile buffers around his crops. No vegetation. No water. No wildlife of any kind."

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