Of course a study out of China would push this propaganda. There is no way they can provide truly organic food with all of the pollution created there and surely no way to feed the billion people with just whole foods.

I do not buy this either.

First off they go from 'organic' which mainly deals with the GROWTH of foods to discussing "additives" which is part of the 'value added industry' meaning what they do to that food after it leaves the farm.

I would have to see the study and it's peer review before I give it any credence.

Next thing you know China will be charging extra for all those *healthy* chemicals that leached into their produce from the air, soil, and water.

Give me a break!!

I'm gonna eat some lead paint health chips now.

i agree with that.. # THESE MORONS... we are still here and every generation before us, lived off of GARDENS in the back yard and they were fine....
everyone gets cancer on an average of 6 times in their life.
theres many cures:
HEALTHY IMMUNE SYSTEM FOR ONE!
Colloidal Silver
B17 vitamins (eat raw apricot & apple seeds, etc)
Tiaga Tea
Vitamins & Minerals derived from living PLANTS
Liquid (from plants) Calcium
MAGNESIUM
YOu will live without cancer... SIMPLE AS THAT

The US and Germany have among the highest life expectancy??? are you kidding? The US is ranked 45th and Germany is 33rd!! how is that among the highest?? not even close!
As to western medicine, yes, it is called "allopathic" medicine which literally means treating a disease with another disease. But any naturopaths will tell you that the best way to fight disease is NOT by poisoning your body, but by being HEALTHY. Of course, most americans dont know what healthy is because due to our society and such, we think disease is the norm.

"The study alleges that the there is very substantial evidence that the very same chemicals and artificial substances that make produce less attractive to insects and pests protects the human body by making it less fertile for the growth of cancers and viruses."

Possibly the silliest thing I've ever read. It's beyond ridiculous.

This is ridiculous. I would say anyone who will categorically state that pesticde and preservative laden food is generally healthier than food without such additives, isn't only not denying ignorance but could become it's poster child.

The source website looks like bunk to me, first of all.

Second, commons sense tells us that this story has to be false. 'Organic' food, is food grown without pesticides and without chemical fertilizers. It is the food that our Grand Parents and Great Grandparents ate, and their generations and older, rarely died of Cancer. Interestingly, the Cancer rates have grown at nearly the same rates that society has increased the use of Chemical Fertilizers and Pesticides (which themselves are often know Carcinogens). Don't be naive, or bigoted towards Organic foods, it leads you down a path of ignorance.

Politically, 'Organic' foods tend to be much more locally sourced than their mainstream chemically grown counterparts, which has a secondary effect preventing Chinese export of food products. That is, unless the Chinese want USDA investigators 'living' in their food processing plants. In order for the Chinese to sell 'Organic' foods in the United States, they would have to pass USDA certification, or implement their own program modeled after the USDA one, but possibly exceeding it. Even then, the USDA would need to 'certify' their certification.

Most of all, I think this 'article' is designed to pacify a future populace of their education about nutrition. I think that without the use of Petro-Chemically engineered foods, that the Population of China would grow very hungry. I think that this article, and its placement here at ATS are here to obfuscate the truth, and give credence to propaganda. If the people of China understood the truth about the foods that they are given, they would revolt for those reasons alone.

Deny Ignorance
DocMoreau

Everybody seems to be misunderstanding what they are saying. They aren't really saying that organic foods are bad for you, but that non-organic foods make you so unhealthy, that cancers and viruses aren't able to tolerate the wasteland that is your body. They seem to be suggesting that everybody should pre-emptively undergo lifelong chemotherapy. Oh well. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Dont china make everything cheap by using cheap chemicals. Well those additives are cheap chemicals that cause the prices to go down but thats about it. Dont china also use human feaces in the foods they grow and are very unhygienic to begin with. Not too mention that they export this crap to the world without your knowledge, especially Australia.
Im on the raw food diet and when i eat all conventional raw i feel sick and get stomach pains but when i eat local and certified organic raw i feel like its going through my whole body and i feel healthier. I feel ti go to work and can feel the difference. Unfortuantely those who eat conventional processed foods wont feel as much difference between conventional and organic when your body is not clean with raw foods.

Please, somebody get me a barf bag.

If the food is grown truly organically, then the food should be fine. This is the way nature intended for food to be grown. It is a cycle. Things decay, it becomes food for plants.

I think the problem arises when you just shovel raw manure or something right on top of your plants. The manure hasn't had time to decompose fully, and that could be a problem with some "organic" products. Now this is my understanding of what I read last.

You can't tell me that these nasty tasteless waxed bags of apples, that have been artificially stimulated to grow, sprayed with who knows what, are some how going to be better for me than a naturally grown apple.

God, this is called "dumbing down" folks.

Troy