Organic vs. Conventional Food

Amanda Rose from the Rebuild blog responds to news that organic produce has no more nutrient value than conventional produce. Learn why she "sure hopes conventional produce has the same nutrient content." You may be surprised.
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Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• organic
• food
• nutrients
• pesticide
• heirloom
• produce
• nutrient
• decline
• magnesium
• zinc
• B12
• vitamin

[mizsunnydelight]

It is most definitely true that heirloom variety seeds have more nutrition in the finished yield, than modernized seed. Many people forget that the seeds themselves need to come from the healthiest possible source, preferably open-pollinated, or heirloom seed, before even starting the process of growing an organic plant that has more nutrition.

[myndy86]

@murtoatom Most studies from the 1970s to the present suggest organic can feed the world. Here are some review studies which review dozens of studies and there are many more as well. srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/­press_releases/20110308_agroec­ology-report-pr_en.pdf

unctad.org/en/docs/ditcted2007­15_en.pdf

ifad.org/evaluation/public_hml­/eksyst/doc/thematic/organic/e­xecsum.htm

[murtoatom]

make sure you read more then one Journal on the protential of any Agriculture to feed the entri human population.

[murtoatom]

“I would hope” how about you reference you material

[myndy86]

@OmerTheGreatOne A study published in the journal Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, based on 293 yield comparisons of plant and animal foods, showed that organic agriculture had the potential to feed the entire human population based on the amount of agricultural land currently in use.

[osideomar]

heirloom tomatoes are good, their actually good by themselves

[jackdentreprenuer]

@OmerTheGreatOne haha. hive five to your first paragraph.

[OmerTheGreatOne]

loose some weight u fat f uck.

ur telling everyone what not to eat, heres an idea, stop suffing ur face and bragging to everyone how ORGANIC ur life style is.

If conventional food does not exist half of the world would be starving. maybe thats what U need.

[pharmfarm59538]

Thanks for the nice talk! I have a been an organic farmer for 11 years now. Organic wheat in Montana has higher Selenium levels than non organic wheat does too!

[no1pearlgirl]

Thanks for giving this perspective. :)