Posted on 09/03/2012 2:54:32 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Organic produce and meat typically isn't any better for you than conventional varieties when it comes to vitamin and nutrient content, according to a new review of the evidence.
But organic options may live up to their billing of lowering exposure to pesticide residue and antibiotic-resistant bacteria, researchers from Stanford University and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System found.
"People choose to buy organic foods for many different reasons. One of them is perceived health benefits," said Dr. Crystal Smith-Spangler, who led the new study.
"Our patients, our families ask about, ‘Well, are there health reasons to choose organic food in terms of nutritional content or human health outcomes?'"
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Talk about a misleading headline.
So, what is non-orgaqnic food? Inorganic? Does this really mean there are two types of organic food?
I’d imagine the people buying it know its more expensive. Perhaps the govt should protect them from spending more????
The point of Organic food is that it hasn’t been treated with pesticides or other chemicals.
Me, personally, I prefer my veggies with a bit of Round-Up.
Eat organic and you’ll never die.
'Many of the studies didn't specify their standards for what constituted "organic" food - which can cost as much as twice what conventional food costs - the researchers wrote Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Oh.
'More than one-third of conventional produce had detectable pesticide residues, compared to seven percent of organic produce samples. And organic chicken and pork was 33 percent less likely to carry bacteria resistant to three or more antibiotics than conventionally-produced meat.'
“So, what is non-orgaqnic food? Inorganic?”
Yes they’ve removed every trace of carbon. :0)
Yes. Soylent Green is the other.
My great-grandfather, grandfather and great-uncle all had wonderful gardens and grew delicious vegetables. They gardened since they were boys, to keep their families fed and they did not grow up in the era of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers. That might explain why when my uncle saw a potato beetle he went right inside for the insecticide and drenched the garden with it. (He and my great-grandfather lived into their early nineties and were active until near the end.)
Even so, I stick to “organic” pesticides and fungicides, like insecticidal soap and lime-sulfur. If my family depended on the garden, it might well be different for us.
Bottled water from the Fiji Islands and organic foods for 10 times the cost of other natural foods and water and you will live for ever.
File this one under: stuff I have always known.
Non-organic food is rocks and metal, obviously.
Which is false. Certified "organic" growers often use more pesticides than modern farmers. Most of the sprays they use are nicotine-based.
Um, all pesticides are synthetic. There isn’t a pesticide tree to harvest. The only natural fertilizer I know of comes from the back end of a horse or mule.
It sounds like people who protest genetically modified corn and wheat not understanding that is the whole purpose of hybrids and breeding experiments for the last couple of thousand years. Heck, that’s why we have corn in the first place.
I’m old and cynical. I don’t necessarily believe it’s organic just because they claim it is.
Places like Whole Foods are fine. I have no problem with upscale stuff. I even venture in there to get my special “aromatic” cheese. But let’s be clear: like a lot of green memes, it is a high end, up scale, elitist, 1%er thing. Remember that as the Dims start their green convention.
Rotenone (from goat’s rue or jicama), pyrethrins (from a chrysanthemum species), neem tree extract, nicotine extract, soaps, horticultural oils, including some vegetable oils, can all be used as pesticides. Iron sulfate + yeast makes a dandy slug bait, harmless to mammals, birds, amphibians.
Fertilizer - seaweed, dead fish, saltmarsh hay, cover crops including nitrogen fixers.
Fungicides - baking soda spray, sulfur dust, lime-sulfur, copper sulfate.
All the above except maybe rotenone would be acceptable in organic growing. Rotenone is a fish-killer.
I’ll use synthetic fertilizers. I’ll use glyphosphate as a herbicide although the pure formulation is getting hard to find.
Even “organic” sprays can be dangerous to the sprayer. Since I don’t have fancy protective gear I limit the ones I use.
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