[Yaelle]

No.

Produce that is non organic contains pesticides and herbicides that cause neurodegenerative diseases. Produce that is USA organic has far LESS of these. (I wouldn’t trust Chinese or Mexican organic)

Produce that is organic cannot contain GMO foods. All corn and soy and lots of other things that are not organic contain GMO foods. Neurotoxins — brain destroyers -— abound in the herbicides these plants CONTAIN. When you eat them, you CONTAIN them. If you want to lessen your risk of Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s or gehrig’s when you are older, you need to avoid neurotoxins when you are younger.

If you choose organic, especially in any plant that is soft without a huge protective peel (go ahead and eat non organic citrus and bananas, for example) are smarter, and kinder to your children, who will be caring for you with all of these neurodegenerative conditions.

If you choose organic meat, poultry, and dairy, you are choosing to eat animal products that have not been fed nonorganic feed.

This is only one step to actually eating real food, because organic can still mean unhealthy reliance on grains and sugars, but it is a damn good start.

[gitmo]

Of course pesticides & herbicides are organic. So are GMO foods. The nuts have hijacked the word to try and make it mean something it doesn’t mean.

Any carbon-based molecule is organic. CH4 (methane) is the simplest organic molecule. Petroleum products are all organic. So is cyanide.

[Parmy]

I recently retired from being in the fruit industry after 38 years. I managed fruit packing warehouses that packed both organic as well as conventional apples.

Truthfully, there are more sprays that are applied on so-called organic produce than on conventionally grown produce. The products labeled for application on organic fruit fill a booklet that is at least 35 single-spaced pages.

So the idea that there are less chemicals applied to organically grown produce is a fallacy. It is just that the chemicals that are applied are approved by whatever government agency that controls that area of agriculture.

Finally, most growers go into organic growing because of capitalism. That is, they perceive that their profits will be greater than if they were conventional growers.

But, as far as there being more or better nutrition in organic produce than conventionally grown produce, that argument is specious. Studies have proved otherwise.