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Subject:
RE: Organic Food
celebrim
3/3/2004 2:07:24 PM
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"Certainly when I buy food, as much as possible I do try and buy more organically grown stuff."
I don't really want to hijack an already off topic thread by starting an off topic contreversy, but I guess I will anyway. My wife is an entomologist and I've worked for both the FDA and university agricultural departments, so I feel somewhat familiar with how food is grown organically or otherwise.
My advice is unless you actually know the farmer growing the 'organic' crop, if you are buying it for health or environmental reasons you should stop. Generally speaking, 'organically' grown crops can be marketed as 'organic' and technically be 'organic' and be _less healthy_ to eat than ones that were grown with conventional non-organic pesticides. Moreover, in all cases its highly questionable whether 'organic' foods are in fact better for the environment, or whether they are in fact worse. Certainly, if all foods were grown organically the impact on the environment food production would be greater than it is now because organic production is for the most part so much less efficient than normal production (hense why the produce costs so much more). Organic produce wastes water and land and can legally be conducted in a fashion that's probably as polluting as normal production because all 'organic' means is basically 'derived from a natural product'. Like the joke about 'smoking rattlesnake venom', not everything that is natural is good for you.
I'm afraid you've been suckered in by the 'common sense' spouted by environmental organizations without learning either the science or technical definition of the word 'organic'. Just because it is 'organic' does not mean its good for you. Many 'organic pesticides' were discontinued precisely because they were more toxic than non-organic pesticides, and please please don't tell me that you are one of the poor sobs that eats 'organic' produce unwashed because you figure 'hey, it's organic'. |
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