Is organic food really that much better for your health?!
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When buying fresh produce, Organic food is undoubtedly healthier than its conventional counterpart. Studies show that the synthetic chemical levels on conventional produce is many, many times higher than Organic. All berries, especially, retain a lot of the chemicals that are sprayed onto it, as their skin is more porous. Organic food often has trace elements of synthetics on it, and this is probably due to transportation and handling.
The chemicals that are sprayed onto these vegetables is highly toxic when sprayed in the amounts that some farmers are force to do. Farm hands are not allowed to walk through crop fields when they are spraying for health reasons. These chemicals are serious business, and are generally overlooked because the consumer is many steps removed from the end product, which is a shiny bell pepper or apple piled high in the produce section.
The Organic label is defined by the USDA and is regulated by the USDA and affiliate agencies around the country. As a small organic farmer myself, trust me, the regulations are pretty tight. Seed, amendments, fertilizers, even the type of wood you use to build things are all regulated and checked on throughout the season.
Studies are also beginning to pop up showing that organic produce is, by and large, actually more nutritious than conventionally grown food. This makes sense, as food grown through organic methods uses organic fertilizers and compost to grow crops, rather than lifeless soil continuously sprayed with synthetics.
When it comes to processed goods, though, like "organic" frozen dinners and such, these only need to be 70% organic in order to use the label. This is more difficult to define and regulate, but at least some of the ingredients are organic, if not all of them.
http://vegonline.org/Vegetarians-&-Susta…
LOL even when daisy is not completely wrong she can't manage to use an unbiased source.
There is evidence that the soils of organic farms are better quality than those using synthetics. For a while this was thought to add to the nutritional content of the foods, but the evidence doesn't support it. For example, there is this confusing result from a study on strawberries which found higher antioxidants in organic versus conventional fruits but they stuffed up their analysis so the paper now contains a correction and I can't tell if their result for higher antioxidant status still applies. (Reganold et al. (2010) Fruit and Soil Quality of Organic and Conventional Strawberry Agroecosystems. PLoS ONE 5(9): e12346. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Ado… ).
Then this one found that there was no difference in antioxidant status between orgainc and conventionally produced onions, carrots and potatoes. (S?ltoft et al., (2010) Effects of Organic and Conventional Growth Systems on the Content of Flavonoids in Onions and Phenolic Acids in Carrots and Potatoes. J. Agric. Food Chem., 58 (19), pp 10323–10329. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf10… ).
So there is no convincing evidence that organic foods are healthier. There is some evidence that they are better for the environment but that is also uncertain. However the popularity of organic produce is now so great that it is likely that agribusiness will be investing in research to show their conventional produce is just as good as the alternatives (as they have done for decades with GMOs). Hence all research should be carefully checked for associations between the authors and the big corps like Monsanto etc. They have a track record of publishing false material to make their products look better than they are so there is no doubt they will produce biased material against organic production if there is a chance it may reduce their losses.
vegan biologist
No. According to the British Food Standards agency, organic food is no more nutritious, healthier or safer than conventionally raised food. I don't have a link handy, but the USDA has said the same thing.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/a…
No. Organic does not mean no pesticides/ herbicides it simply means no synthetic herbicides or pesticides and in the USA only requires 95% of the ingredients to be organic. However, some of the most dangerous herbicides/ pesticides are organic. Do a search on Rotenone, an organic pesticide linked with Parkinsons disease.
GROSS and NO, I have no prooof or explation but believe me , it is 100% no.
I was trying decide organic at first before going vegeterian /vegan but I found out Organic is not that great. Go look in Organic section at WholeFood Market, they eat same as meater eats. They think it is non chemicals, in fact it is sometimes mixed up or on purpose given.
That depends on what country you live in.
If you live in the USA, then NO, because the FDA has never legally defined "organic", and so it's basically just a word. They put that word on a sign and double the price. And you have NO IDEA whether the fruit/veggie with the label, actually IS.
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Yes. Truly organic food is better because of lack of chemicals and usually superior food quality. Our body's crave the chemicals in the plant not the chemicals sprayed on the plant that kills living things.
depending on the food. for instance, bananas or oranges you don't need to buy organic (they are covered in their skin). but peppers on the other hand have tons of chemicals and pesticides.
here organic food is cheap just go to any farmer's market..:)), and buy veggies and fruits in season
I do not think that's the fact at least now.
In many times just for business.
Yep , they are . But they're expensive T.T
No.
no its a publicity stunt
yes, in my opinion
