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To be considered for one of these exciting Management posi tions, please contact your Placement Office immediately to arrange an on- campus interview with our Representative. An Equal Opportunity Employer TWO PIZZAS ON THE DOUBLE Call Us! 260-9020 4407 Texas Ave. 693-2335 1504 Holleman 822-7373 Townshire Shopping Ctr. 2 PIZZAS 1 TOPPING only $1 o 95 Call Domino’s Pizza today and get TWO fresh baked 12” pizzas with one deli cious topping for only $10.95, plus tax! Additional toppings avail able for just a little extra. Offer expires Feb. 28,1990 Valid at participating stores only. Not valid with any other coupon or offer. Prices subject to applicable sales tax. Deliv ery area limited to ensure safe driving. Our drivers carry less than $20.00. £>1989 Domino’s Pizza, Inc. Organic foods natural preservative alternatives pa po By M. ELAINE HORN Of The Battalion Staff Shelton’s chickens don’t do drugs. They are “natural” chickens, free of growth hormones, color enhanc ers and chemical additives, and one of many different natural foods pro duced by Shelton, a natural-foods manufacturer. Shelton’s chickens are a typical ex ample of the natural food lines car ried by stores such as the Brazos Natural Foods Store in Bryan. Robert Atkins, co-owner of Bra zos Natural Foods, describes natural and organic foods as those as close to their original state as possible. They are grown without chemical or syn thetic pesticides, herbicides, or ferti lizers, and processed and packaged without preservatives, dyes, waxes or other chemical additives. Gail McGlamery, a senior wildlife and Fisheries science major, prefers eating natural and organic foods be cause she thinks they are healthier and taste better. She says that for foods such as peanut butter, she wants to avoid chemicals.-“I feel better knowing all that’s in it is peanuts,” she says. In appearance, natural foods dif fer noticeably from conventional foods. The colors are not as bright, and the textures are not as smooth. McGlamery says people are used to seeing perfectly red tomotoes and perfectly unscathed vegetables, and they shy away from natural and or ganic foods that are not as pretty. Although the foods may look more rugged and less perfect, she says she feels better eating foods without preservatives, additives, and extra sugars and salts. “My philosophy is if I want some thing salty, I want to put the salt on it.” she says. “If I want something sweet then I’ll sweeten it myself.” Many people question the health benefits of natural and organic foods. Chemicals and additives used in the United States are tested and approved by the Federal Drug Ad ministration, so why should people be concerned about them? Atkins says that although individ ual chemicals are tested by the FDA, the effects of multiple chemicals have yet to be determined. Standards for labeling foods as or ganic or natural vary from state to state. In Texas, food is certified “or ganic” when the farm that produces it has been using organic agricultu ral methods for three years. How ever, guidelines for the term “natu ral” have not been set. “Natural” has no official meaning, Atkins says, and in different places, it means different things. “ ‘Natural’ has been used and abused by the food industry over the past few years,” Atkins Says. If his store discovers a product which is labeled and marketed as natural but actually contains addi tives, he will not continue to stock it. McGlamery says she likes stores to guarantee that their foods are natu ral or organic, especially for items such as produce. The price of organic and natural foods often runs 20 percent 50 per cent higher than conventional foods. tei c II For example, coffee at Brazos Natl ral Foods costs more than $" pound on sale, while gourmetcoffil at local supermarkets costs less th $0 a pound. Atkins says the coffee beansinsl permarket coffee are sprayed will pesticide which is banned in il country but often used in thecou- tries where coffee beans are grow The beans in his coffee are r sprayed with pesticides. Atkins says that economics cause natural foods to be more expensive In mass production operation! large manufacturers can spread oi: their costs over many packages, s the unit price goes down. In the natural foods marVei fewer people are doing business, so the price stays up. McGlamery says that on her bud get she can go to a natural foot store only about once every tv months. For her regular shoppit she goes to the health food sectit of local supermarkets. She says that natural foods definitely more expensive but she gets what she pays for. “Iff: stre enough money,” McGlamery “I’d buy them all the time." ers aco tior city f to t and que fret aba: aroi inta viev the real Photo by Kathy Haveman Displayed is a selection of organic and all-natural foods. Despite its small size — about size of an average convenience stu — Brazos Natural Foods stocb wide variety of products. 11 shelves and bins contain everythii low from grains, flours, and pastas disc juices, milks, and toaster pastries, slee One drawback to organic andii; ural foods is that without additive and preservatives, the foods have substantially shorter shelf life. Bi Atkins says his products sell quid! so deterioration is not a problem. [cast basi C t° £ i tion i in 8 bad A abo Hoi 1,5( not and L • 4 ♦ » % * • % 4 PP ♦ ♦ - -• - » vr • • SENIORS P . • ♦ ft • • * 4 . * 4 '■m • * * * ft We want YCDID" in the 1990 Aggieland * s , ft • n Pictures will be taken from £ • • January 22-26 t • * 4 * * * ♦ ♦ » . * » at AR Photography 707 Texas Ave. 9am-5pm * # » * * * • . mu 'acuci, per : and | will will ! the hon GENERAL MEETING cre\ ^ shel Par buil THURSDAY, JANUARY 25th 7:30 p.m. ROOM 267 G. 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