inFact: Organic Food Myths

Everyone says organic food is better for you and better for the environment. But is that true, or is it just eco-marketing rhetoric?

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Science & Technology

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• organic
• organic food
• foodie
• monsanto

[cuddleTrouble08]

Naturally resistant to pests? what a stupid misinformed asshole. they have pesticides built in to the seeds, most them gmo strains. god this guy really didnt do his homework. god damn

[cjanesdragonfly]

Organics are better for us and better for the environment. They're here to stay and it's only going to get bigger. Deal with it.



[ichbinlawollmond]

@myndy86 I'm very glad to hear that. I hope that your and all volunteers around the world continue the good will.

[myndy86]

@ichbinlawollmond You sound like you are still 16 because usually as people grow they learn to look for credible sources of information and not articles that don't reference sources. I've volunteered in poor countries helping poor farmers earn more money to feed their families by growing organic while reducing their nutrient deficiencies and health problems they were having by using large amounts of pesticides and growing conventional food with less nutrients.

[myndy86]

@ichbinlawollmond What do you mean by "not dying"? Like from a health perspective, or an economic perspective, etc. No offense but I am having a hard time understanding what you mean in several of your comments. I'm also waiting for a link to the 30 page article from the Independent with sources, which I suspect doesn't exist.

[myndy86]

@ichbinlawollmond You didn't read the "Organically produced crops were found to have significantly higher levels of sugars, magnesium, zinc, dry matter, phenolic compounds and flavonoids than conventionally produced crops." food.gov.uk/multimedia/pdfs/or­ganicreviewappendices.pdf Then they eliminated over 100 studies that found organic had more nutrients, mostly because they couldn't tell which certifying body was used, like I said! Read your sources before you quote them.

[ichbinlawollmond]

@myndy86 I've seen your still in battle with monsanto and genetic modified food. Support organic food. Go buy a 30 dolars meal of tofu and I hope you are old enough to support yourself

[ichbinlawollmond]

@myndy86 this sounds cool. Actually, I bought this idea when I was 16, because I had only 2 opinions. The book and the teacher. Have you ever talked to a farm family? do you have links that shows me and supports your side that the organic food is helping people from not diying ? Welly welly welly, viddy well little brother.

[ichbinlawollmond]

A 12-month systematic review commissioned by the FSA in 2009 and conducted at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine based on 50 years' worth of collected evidence concluded that "there is no good evidence that consumption of organic food is beneficial to health in relation to nutrient content

[myndy86]

@ichbinlawollmond Organic is knowledge based farming, it requires someone to teach people how to farm. When programs are put in effect that teach people how to farm organically they almost always have more economic, environmental, etc. benefits than the conventional farming methods they were using. You really haven't presented an argument other than referencing articles that don't have any references.