-Original Message-
From: Fleming, William w...@montana.edu
To: Apple-Crop apple-crop@virtualorchard.net
Sent: Wed, Jul 8, 2009 7:10 pm
Subject: RE: Apple-Crop: deer
At the risk of being branded by PETA as the Charles Manson of the
animal world, why do growers treat deer (a pest of
Deer
The law tells us we face stiff penalties if Deer are made to disappear from
a orchard. Where it is legal to do away with as many codling moths as
possible as long as we use properly accepted and tested ammunition. Seems
gun powder has not been tested enough, and is unacceptable outside of
Many studies on nutritional differences are meaningless because of
flawed methodology. For many fruits and vegetables (and especially
for apples), the antioxidants and other beneficial compounds are
found primarily in the skin or external tissues where they serve to
protect plants from attack
