Expert reaction: “This study provides no evidence to change my views that there are no meaningful nutritional differences between conventional produced and organic crops.”
Expert reaction: “This study provides no evidence to change my views that there are no meaningful nutritional differences between conventional produced and organic crops.”
These dirty progz and their stupid organic everything crusade. I’m sick of it. The supermarkets have to have 2 of almost everything now – normal food, and grown in pig**** food. It drives up the cost of the normal food because now they buy less of the normal stuff. Just go away already.
You only have to look at organic food to know that there’s something wrong with it.
You only have to look at the emaciated people who eat the stuff, to know that they’ve eaten something that you don’t want to eat.
It’s sad to see all those people being forced to eat organic food against their will, no wonder they complain about it. Shouldn’t people be free to purchase and eat what they prefer? It’s heart rending to hear their stories of not being able to buy enough junk food and chemically contaminated food to satisfy their cravings.
You can rest easy to know that organic food is largely under the control of one single giant company, United Natural Foods, and not mom ‘n pop hippie farmers. So, you can smile when you think of the disconnect between the consumer of organic products and who actually provides it to them.
Exactly. Follow the money.
Organic grain crops grown around produce 1/2 to 2/3 of the regularly grown crops.
That is a mistaken assumption. United Natural Foods is a US distributor of organic foods. They buy from organic farmers. Believe whatever makes you happy.
I think we need more stringent truth-in-labeling laws. All “organic” food should be required to carry a label: “may have been grown in pig or human sh*t”.
It’s amusing to see the extremist reaction to organic foods, you guys are hilarious wanting to limit free choice just because YOU don’t like something. It’s called hypocrisy.
“I think we need more stringent truth-in-labeling laws.”
Yes, I agree. All major ingredients should be labelled with country of origin. Let informed consumers decide for themselves what they want to eat or avoid.
DITTO!
Now …..Back under yer bridge…
Golf Foxtrot Yankee
North, Yes lets’ have COOL for everything we eat.
We all know how that has kept the price of beef down in the US and Canada.
What are you talking about? The price of industrial beef has nothing to do with some people growing or eating organic food.
Yes Kate, that Prof Tom Sanders will not drink the cool-aid:
“This article is misleading because it refers to antioxidants in plants as if they were a class of essential nutrients, which they are not.
“The compounds referred to are mainly plant phenolics and are produced in higher quantities when plants are environmentally stressed. Plant phenolics have both toxic as well as potential beneficial effects. Some vitamins have anti-oxidant properties such as vitamin E, vitamin C and beta-carotene but the differences between organic and conventional produce are trivial.
All crops, whether “organic” or not, other than hydroponically cultured, are grown in rotted vegetation, dead animals and shit.
That’s what agriculturally viable topsoil is.