Unruh Agrees with Madville Times: Eat Local, Eat Safe

Organic food isn't just for pie-in-the-sky, tofu-in-the-salad hippies: KELO runs a weekend piece on how local food is safer food (which is exactly what Rebecca Terk of Flying Tomato Farms and yours truly said earlier this week). First Karla Ramaekers gets a shot of farmer John Wesselius vending his green wares at the Sioux Falls farmers market with a big American flag across his chest. Then who shows up to extol the virtues of local organic agriculture? None other than abortion crusader Dr. Allen Unruh:

Dr. Allen Unruh, a shopper at the market, says “People are more gardening nowadays and they stay away from chemicals and sprays.”

Unruh says it's simply safer to buy home-grown food.

“Everything has some kind of salt, sugar, dyes, and some sort of chemical and we avoid that with organic foods.”

And to top it off, local markets like this one offer one-on-one time for customers to ask what was used to treat the produce, if anything.

“There's a relationship thing happening between consumer and grower,” Unruh said [Karla Ramaekers, "Buy Locally, Eat Safely," KELOLand.com, 2008.06.14].

It's good to know Dr. Unruh is abstaining from chemicals and sprays in favor of locally grown food. Sounds like a truly pro-life attitude. Now if only we could get the Unruh family to stop pushing bad laws like Initiated Measure 11 into the "relationship thing" between women and their doctors.

Pass the salad, not the initiative.