Sara,
You certainly are not alone. I react very badly to organically grown
veg, and have for years. I do think it has something to do with the
increasing use of seaweed and fish fertilizers in organic farming,
feeding of shellfish and seaweed meal (or ocean fish) to farmed
freshwater fish, feeding of shellfish shells to chickens, kelp meal and
such to cattle and what all the hell else food producers do to make my
life miserable.
Fish and kelp fertilizers are increasingly used by home gardeners
also. Iodine I am extremely allergic/senstive to, also nickel (the first
allergy I was ever aware of having). FWIW, nickel allergy isn't
uncommon. Hence why I can't use sea salt--most contain both, as well as
other stuff that I seem to react to. Reactive as I am to iodine, sea
salt does contain less of it than iodized table salt does (haven't used
that for 20 years), so I do believe the nickel content of sea salt gives
me a double whammy. And any "organic" processed or packaged food of any
kind invariably contains sea salt, and many contain also some kind of
seaweed thickener, such as one of the algins, or carrageenan. Basically
I can't use or ingest anything from the ocean.
So all in all, any time I see a food with the "organic" label, I am
very wary, and usually avoid it.
Interesting about the clothing. I hadn't considered that, but I get
most of my clothing at the thrift shop, so by the time I get it, it's
usually been washed half to death, LOL.
A lot of the time I spend on health groups online as well as at
"health" websites is totally wasted as mostly I read about wonderful
stuff that I react badly to. Even the common statements re potassium and
magnesium are wasted on me, as supplementing either makes me feel
horrible, unless I've done the taste test first.
sol
Sara wrote:
*I really hesitate to be frank here, because it sounds so crazy. but i
have been reacting very badly to anything organically grown for years,
including clothing. i have some theories but don't really know why.
could be they fertilize with fish source stuff, and anything from the
ocean tends to really bother me, with heavy metals and pollutants and
possibly iodine. anyway, it's ironic that the stuff that could be best
for me hurts me so much. as a note, i seem to react to stuff in
concentrations that even insects can deal with. it's what i call a
sci-fi illness.*
**
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