Listening to the news could be bad for your health. I think I will not eat any spinach or lettuce for a long time.

Mecury is present in your large fish, like tuna. You eat just a little tuna do you?

Remembers me ( TV news documentary) Vegitables specially Ground Tumors one like Pottatos, Cabages. Cuting and tested in a Lab, that changed litmus papers to read some chemical contents used in Fertiliers. Means are we consuming Organic Chemicals in our food ??.

You know oldnurse, that's a good idea. My stepfather use to have a small garden in our back yard. He grew lettuce, tomatoes, and hot chilli peppers. I'm use to fresh grown things. I come from the old school too. I think if you feed the cat organic cat food, that will be good fertilizer!!!!

No it is not. I think you will have to eat it on a daily basis. Like I said, Mercury is high in your large fish.

oldnurse says ...

Happily, I just put in a fall planting of lettuce and spinich. No fear from my own garden.....unless the cat uses it for a bathroom!

I had a garden this past summer with three different types of lettuce, spinich, carrots, onions, potatoes, peppers and corn.   I ate well this summer and put a lot up for the winter.

Our food may not be the safest, but I've lived in third world countries, and just using the local water to wash the vegetables gave me dysentery.  Couldn't get a mixed drink in a bar because the lousy sanitation requirements resulted in contaminated drinking glasses. We're very lucky here, but very few realize it.