Preliminary study finds organic vegetables contaminated with wide range of disease-causing microbes (“Organic fertilizers such as manure and sewage sludge and from irrigation water” an added concern over non-organic)

Medical Xpress / European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) ^ | Apr. 23, 2022 | Dr. Yolanda Moreno et al

[ConservativeMind]

Organic food doesn’t have the pesticide and herbicide residue, but may harbor pathogens not normally present when eating non-organic food.

[ConservativeMind]

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[nickcarraway]

Could have more nutrients such as B12.

[DannyTN]

[bray]

They just figuring that out? Organic is not necessarily healthy.

[fireman15]

“Organic vegetables” by definition are fertilized with poop and not chemicals like ammonia. Personally, I choose the ammonia fertilized vegetables, they look healthier.

[imabadboy99]

Wouldn’t a simple washing of the produce before eating remove the microbes?

[catnipman]

“Preliminary study finds organic vegetables contaminated with wide range of disease-causing microbes”

uh huh, because unlike organic vegetables, NOT-organic vegetables are free from surface microbes ...

and except for NOT-organic vegetables, EVERYTHING in our environment is coated with microbes .... basically, we ALL live in a sea of microbes ...

[Seruzawa]

Humans are designed to eat cooked food anyhow. We don’t have the dentures for a raw vegetable diet. So if you lightly cook veggies, like steaming them, You can kill the microbes. All is then good.

[PeterPrinciple]

They just figuring that out? Organic is not necessarily healthy.

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I delivered organic chickens to a processer once. Half of them died on the way they were so unhealthy.

[fireman15]

Wouldn't a simple washing of the produce before eating remove the microbes?

For most a “simple washing” means running some cool tap water over the vegetables. This is typically not enough to even get rid of the tiny slugs which carry Rat lung worm disease which is the leading causes of meningitis in many parts of the world which often results in death. The little slugs are millions of times larger than microbes.

If you want to pay twice as much eat scrawny dirty looking organic vegetables from Mexico etc... where their hygienic standards are much less than they are here that is your business. Scrub away.

[goodnesswins]

I spray or soak my produce with vinegar

[MarMema]

Wow. Buy organic, wash well, and cook well.

[BiglyCommentary]

I use food grade hydrogen peroxide or ozone water to rinse vegetables.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

I prefer the non-organic vegetables that are bred, not for nutrition or taste, but for transportability.

Love those huge, bright red tomatoes that are mostly water with little taste on account of they look so good in the grocery store and they don't bruise.

You could probably even bowl with them!

[Cold Heart]

“Half of them died on the way they were so unhealthy”

How many weigh scales did you have to pass over with your over loaded load of chickens?

[GaltAdonis]

"... a sea of microbes ..."

Let's all dive in!

[9YearLurker]

Sewer sludge for organic veggies? Yuck!

[PeterPrinciple]

How many weigh scales did you have to pass over with your over loaded load of chickens?

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No, they were the most sickly chickens I have ever seen.

[fireman15]

I use food grade hydrogen peroxide or ozone water to rinse vegetables.

Good for you. Most people don't.