The importance of ORGANIC APPLE CIDER VINEGAR

Today I found an article which is really important to read for you all:

It is about organic apple cider vinegar and its benefits and sometimes lifesaving qualities:

http://pigeonbooks.com/index.php?r=14&c=72&l=en

An excerpt from this article:

"I would like to draw your attention to the fact that whitewashing is not an adequate means of disinfection! Firstly, lime has little effect on certain pathogens; secondly, after a time the whitewashed surface will be weakly but continuously alkaline, and a weakly alkaline environment is particularly favourable for the survival of salmonellas and coli bacteria! These bacteria like precisely this gently alkaline environment, while in acidic conditions they decay quickly. For this reason – alongside the acidification of drinking water – systematic cleaning of the loft, or spraying the walls with slightly vinegarish water, can prove extremely effective. This is a very useful and very cheap method."

Really good article, and I particularly liked the information on maintaining an acidic environment to discourage bacteria, and how an alkali, like bleach, may be less effective.

Thanks for posting this, Petra!