Organic vs. Non-organic

dababydollmami

It's the highly processed foods that contain many of the surprise ingredients like you mentioned. If you cannot afford organic try making more items at home instead of buying premade ones available on store shelves. If you really want to know what is in your food google the ingredients and research it. You may not like the outcome but it's the only way to learn what to stay away from. Just remember if you buy premade organic food there is a chance not all the ingredients used are organic, if you read the ingredient list on the back it should have a * next to the certified organic ingredients.

zoodocgirl

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/996243-still-think-eating-organic-isn-t-worth-it

§ 205.603 Synthetic substances allowed for use in organic livestock production.
In accordance with restrictions specified in this section the following synthetic substances may be used in organic livestock production:

Here's another example of big words intended to scare people. This list basically says that farmers are allowed to clean their facilities and treat medical problems in their cattle, and give them pain meds when they hurt themselves. None of these things are intended to be given in THE FEED. They aren't pouring ethanol into the cattle feed (although wouldn't it be awesome if you could get drunk off a burger?!). They're just allowed to use it to sanitize the milking equipment, etc. YOU WANT THAT.

You might come back with the argument that if they're just raised right, they won't need any meds. While this is true of prophylactic antibiotics for sure, you can't avoid all accidents and diseases via good intentions, just as eating healthy and working out isn't going to keep you from stubbing your toe or catching the occasional cold. Most of the drugs on that list that go inside the animal have the caveat that they need to be given on a veterinarian's direction. It's cruel to never be able to administer pain meds to a 1200 lb animal. Cows are big. Cows are dumb. Cows will panic about a broom falling over and run into a wall. Cows hurt themselves. Cows **** a lot and their **** gets on their udders and the milking equipment. Pastured animals eat off the ground and therefore can get worms regularly, even if you do pasture rotation. My own organically-raised chickens just got tapeworms. I used a dewormer AND I ate the eggs, because I know that it's a dewormer safely used in people at much higher doses.

Just because something has a long sciencey sounding name doesn't make it evil.

zoodocgirl

I somehow "quoted" my own new post. That takes talent.

Was trying to just quote the first part of that poster's list of USDA organic accepted "chemicals" without copying the whole list.

Apparently Doctor of Veterinary Medicine =/= Doctor of internet forum technicalities. Ah well.

mockchoc

pfft. just eat.