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If you still find our prices higher than those in your locality, well . . . I don't want to make generalized assertions about health food stores, but certainly you are aware that even the honest proprietors have no sure way of knowing that what they sell is any good. The Society, on the other hand, is committed to checking out all products before selling them. Our prices may be high, but we know what we're dealing in and how good it is. Of course, if your local source is one you can depend on, by all means use it . . . our members generally don't have such sources available, and it's for them that the Society is most valuable.

About that water purifier . , . the spring-water-versus-filtered-water controversy is still going on. One ironic fact that you may want to consider is this: city-treated water is, I agree, usually horrible and full of chemicals but those chemicals have killed all harmful organic matter (such as the coliform and other bacteria), which even spring water sometimes contains. If you filter this treated water in your home, you just may wind up with the best of both worlds: bacteria-free as well as chemical-free water.

You're right . . . our replacement filter is $3.49, not $1. 00 as incorrectly stated in the MOTHER article (by the way, there were encouragingly few errors in that article). I also did not—unless I was "somewhere else"—say that bottled water sells for $5.00 a gallon. . . $1.00 a gallon is the highest price I've seen so far.

Hope that this has answered some of your questions. Let's leave it at my telling you that we're doing our best and you, maybe, replying that it isn't good enough. Unhappily, you may be right.

If you get to the mountain top and don't see us there, be patient . . . sit down, sip some cider and wait just a bit.

Steve Brown
Ecological Food Society

Since the "Plowboy Interview" with EPS founders Victor Schiff and Steve Brown appeared in MOTHER NO. 13, a number of readers have insisted that EFS hasn't been living up to its promises. So in mid-March we hopefully sent a letter to Steve summarizing the complaints we'd received and including' copies of several examples, A second less hopeful note went out several weeks later. Still no answer. . . although neither letter was returned. However, when we tried to cold Schiff/Brown , we were told that the phone had been disconnected Then at the eleventh hour, so to speak, the following letter arrived from Steve.

Sorry to take so long in answering you but things are in a gigantic mess not only with the Ecological Food Society but also with our other businesses, which we have drained of money and deprived of attention in order to keep EFS going. But that's our problem. Now to your problem, and that of your readers.

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