Organic food is no healthier, study finds

[Henrietta23]

My DH got quite a chuckle as I yelled at my TV last night when this story aired on the news.
"It's not just about nutrition you idiots!"

 

[me&thegals]

I smell a change in the definition of the term organic coming. I hope it won't be near to impossible to measure up to it. A move like that would diminish the market again.

When you have enormous companies buying into organic, you can bet your patootie that they are going to push quite hard (with quite a lot of money) to define organic in a way that suits them best (bottom line, of course). This comes from getting into organic as a "market" only and not as the right thing to do. Of course, you can do the right thing AND make money at it!

 

[me&thegals]

I would, too, but as usual, where there's money to be made, there are corners to be cut It's up to us, as consumers, to make sure the organic providers know we're paying attention, and we're not going to buy quasi-organic jumk in lieu of the good, organic products that can be produced.....

As for many things, vote with your pocketbook. I have never had such low turnout in my 3 years at the farmer's market. People like the idea of organic, but it's an intensively laborious way to grow food and it is NOT going to cost the same as something sprayed nearly to death in another part of the country/world and shipped to America, gassed into ripeness and then left on the shelf for a week. And, why should it?

I hope there are lots of folks out there who think the way you do I love it when customers ask me how I grow my food!

 

[Beekissed]

Very feeble attempt by agribiz to deter folks from jumping on the healthy wagon.....

 

[reinbeau]

Not feeble at all, Bee, how much press did all of the studies that showed organically grown food to be better get? Nothing like what this one measly study has received. Only those of us who care about our food and who subscribe to things like MEN, or Organic Gardening, or Organic Consumers, or any number of other publications or groups, we're the ones who heard about the myriad of studies showing the benefits of organics. As usual, follow the money.....

 

[Beekissed]

Yep, I would have to agree. Feeble in the attempt to actually prove their claim, is what I should have stated. Since when will pesticides and herbicides be as good for you as NOT having pesticides introduced into your body?

 

[me&thegals]

That's the thing. It's one thing to look at the nutrients in each type of food. It's another thing to measure chemical residues. Duh. I'm afraid of how many people will hear this one and not look further.

 

[hennypenny9]

The effect I can see this article having is the people who already don't care about growing food sustainably, and healthily, will go "SEE!" and the people who are the opposite will say that it's twisting the facts.

Personally, I found no substance in it. Basically no information other than "we did studies!" Goodie! Now who paid for those studies? Were the pesticides included in these tests? Etc, etc.

 

[Big Daddy]

The version I heard is that organic foods do not contain any more of the essential nutrients than regular fruit does. It didn't say anything about pesticides or how much safer organic is since there are no pesticides. It makes sense to me. The only reason to grow organic is to avoid toxins.

Now if they did a test on eggs and tried to say that store bought are the same as the eggs my chickens lay then I would say your testing must be flawed.

 

[FarmerDenise]

I would definiteley want to know much more about the study.
I have done "studies" also, as a matter of fact anyone can. And it matters what the study was trying to prove in the first place.
did they study micro nutrients as well or just some basic stuff?
What a bunch of b#$% , there is just sooo much more to it.
Once the soil is depleted and you don't add the unknown factor back into the soil, it is not going to be taken up by the plant.
They always act as if they know "everything" there is to know. Well some of us are smart enough to know that they don't know it all.