Organic has no health benefits

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Meat is also very good for you!

Originally posted by alienesque

Organic has no health benefits

news.bbc.co.uk

Organic food is no healthier than ordinary food, a large independent review has concluded.
There is little difference in nutritional value and no evidence of any extra health benefits from eating organic produce, UK researchers found.

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The independent research is flawed. Organic food does not have the toxins and Monsanto Bio-Engineered crap in our food supply. Frankly, organics taste better and your body will process them better.

Let's all agree. If you want to eat organic, just eat organic. If you don't, then don't.

But, I just did research and wrote a 28 page paper for my college technical writing class on Glyphosate, particularly from Roundup and its surfactant.

It's one of the most used pesticides in world, mainly in agricultures. The problem is that this pesticide (and many others) can be uptake and accumulate within the plants and fruits for a long time.

Inhaling, ingesting, or touching these pesticides is very bad. If not the active ingredients in the pesticides, then the surfactants (an "inactive" ingredient) found in all pesticide formula. It's bad because its more toxic than the active ingredient in the pesticide, and create a deadly synergistic effect when mixed.

Note (in terms of pesticides) -
1) active ingredient: primary ingredient intended to kill pests (aka. weeds)
2) inactive (other) ingredients: ingredients that aid the active ingredients in it's task. For example, surfactant lowers the surface water tension of the plant and allows the active ingredients to pass through the protective membrane of the plant or weed cell wall.

Glyphosate is so bad, there's currently a supreme court case or hearing going on in Argentina to ban it from being used.

And the most shocking thing, Glyphosate isn't even the worse pesticide used. There are far toxic pesticides being sprayed on food, near residential areas or bodies of water.

Here's some published scientific journals done on Glyphosate, Roundup, and polyoxyethyleneamine (surfactant).
1) Research done in 2005: www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov...

2) Research done in 2009: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...

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For me, the only organic food I eat are fruits, vegetables, and sometime meat. Organic meat is expensive, but man try grass-fed beef over corn-fed beef, it just taste so much better.

That isn't to say I'm a food nazi, I eat what I am served, but when I'm buy and cook my own food, it's organic fruits/veggies for me.

P.S. If you want a pesticide alternative. Use lemon juice alone (or mixed with salt, mustard powder, and oil). That's my formula.

[edit on 30-7-2009 by skyblueff0]

Oh, of course organic is no better than vegatables sprayed with crap. Just like filtering your water of chlorine doesn't help either.

Geeze, who do you think sponsored this study?

I'm not saying everything labeled "organic" is absolutely organic. Labels can be misleading.

But, I would say the folks here who grow their own natural foods in rich soil, can tell you, there is a difference in the fruit. Most obviously the taste. Honestly, how are you going to get really nutritious foods from depleted, chemical ridden soil?

I mean if you saw me put pesticide directly in your cool-aide, would you be willing to drink it? This is kind of what happens to our food supply.

But, no question, true organic, is the best choice. For one thing it helps support the natural ecosystem that is already set up for us. Composting helps put good use to our scraps and waste, that otherwise gets thrown into a plastic bag and dumped into a landfill where it decomposes into a wasteland of various chemicals. Our soil could really use this waste that we carelessly throw in the dump.

This is a world where people in authority are allowed to tell us "up is down," and "down is up." Things that shouldn't be normal are labeled "normal." "It's ok, it's normal to bleed from the rectum when you take this drug. Don't worry, it's an 'approved' drug."

Troy

All I can do is echo others here ... this is blatant propaganda and is not only ridiculing our intelligence, but its also a very dangerous article for the sheeple who will take this as gospel. Independent study indeed!!

The BIG Lie is that people think organic is free of pesticides. NOT TRUE, they use "natural" pesticides. Your lovely organic food is soaked in copper (causes alzheimers) and also drenched in pyrethrum (no wonder so many 'organic' women are sterile). When my grandmother of 92yrs has the mental and physical ability of a 60yr old. She eats healthy and looks after herself She has NEVER eaten "organic", The organic industry is like any other multi-billion dollar and the organics are suckers.

With the years and years of posts from members here detailing individual cases and research into the effects of genetically modified foods, the cross pollination and self-terminating technology from Monsanto, and the incredibly long post about codex alimentarius there is still a ridiculous amount of people who refuse to open their eyes to the blatant truth.

Organic food is NOT just about pesticides. Organic food is about eating food that is not genetically modified or altered in anyway that has the potential for seriously harming the body. The same GM foods that are so genetically unstable that credible scientists are calling it a genetic time bomb capable of mutations at an alarming rate.

I buy organic because I want to get as far away as I can from GM foods. They are nutritionless, taste like crap and can seriously ruin your body.

Anyone who agrees with GM crops is a severely misinformed cretin or one of the hundreds of disinfo agents that troll this site!



[edit on 30-7-2009 by metro]

[edit on 30-7-2009 by metro]

This study was mentioned on our MSM news here in NZ. Thankfully, a little common sense prevailed and it was mentioned that the study came to it's conclusion based purely on nutritional content of the fruit. Which means it does not take into account the effects of the various chemicals and additives, along with the 'nutritional content'.

But organic food isn't about breeding super food with extra nutritional content. It's about what's NOT in it. I'd take locally grown organic fruit/vege/meat any day over intensively fertilised/pesticide food, even if it's a little more expensive.

I think it's really disturbing the way Monsanto is trying to monopolise the food industry, and being the sole provider of (non)nutrition to the world. I think the more small, localised, food providers the better.

It's about what's NOT in it.

Yeah I'm with you, except I avoid organic because I do not want alzheimers or cancer from all the crap they soak the organics in. To each their own. I watched an organic farmer once pull barrels of copper and pyrethrum (both with skull & bones on them) along his field soaking the veges to the extreme. I'll take a mist of roundup which biodegrades in the sun over buckets of "natural" poison any day. Funny thing is in 20yrs you won't even remember why you started eating organic in the first place.