Scientists Cast Doubt on Advantages of Organic Foods

millerll

I wonder who paid for the production of this article...seems to me big food and government don't like us growing and eating our own food naturally. Organically grown food will always be superior to mass produced and genetically modified stuff. I wouldn't trust this article as far as I could throw it.

Why is it superior though? That's the point.

Don't be silly, it's cause it makes you feel superior to those common folk and their silly non organic fruits and veggies. Cross fit works much the same way

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beansprouts

On the Penn & Teller show BS, they did a program all about organic foods and if they really taste better. They did blind taste tests on several fruits and vegetables, even to the point of suggesting something was organic over a regular piece. Guess what...the majority thought that the non-organic food tasted better.

http://youtu.be/8Zqe4ZV9LDs

Except for taste...What do people (human beings) really know about the food that they buy/eat ?...But just because it (food) tastes good (or looks good) doesn't mean that it is good for humans to eat.

Now if you really want to see something look at all of the youtube videos where dumb animals refused to eat GMO foods...It sure makes you think...What do those animals know that we humans don't know?

RiverDancer68

Everyone can make up their own mind on this topic, but I suggest you watch certain documentaries on it, like "Food, Inc" and "The Vanishing of the Bees". Educate yourselves on GMOs and decide if genetically modified food is something you want as part of your diet. I bought both regular Gala apples and organic ones on my last grocery trip and honestly can't tell the difference as far as taste. But, the core of the regular apple was still white the next day and the organic one was brown. Remember when you were a kid and you couldn't eat your apple fast enough before it turned brown? I just think there's too much tinkering with our food supply in the interest of big money. That's why I will continue to choose organic whenever possible.

I agree! I do take everything with a grain of salt though....but I read a lot and look at both sides of the issue. I have come out on the side of Pro-Organics...but that is my personal choice based on my own research

Lina4Lina

I'm not sure why someone would think that organic veggies are more nutritious. The study seems pointless.

AllTehBeers

Except for taste...What do people (human beings) really know about the food that they buy/eat ?...But just because it (food) tastes good (or looks good) doesn't mean that it is good for humans to eat.

Now if you really want to see something look at all of the youtube videos where dumb animals refused to eat GMO foods...It sure makes you think...What do those animals know that we humans don't know?

Well, I could also say, except for taste, how did people pick food before there was science? Bitter berries bad, sweet berries good.

KeegansMomma

How many years has our food been messed with? How long has buying organic been an option?

Now, how many people out there older than 70 are still eating it and going strong? Seems to me it can't be THAT bad for us if people that old are still going strong, right?

beansprouts

Except for taste...What do people (human beings) really know about the food that they buy/eat ?...But just because it (food) tastes good (or looks good) doesn't mean that it is good for humans to eat.

Now if you really want to see something look at all of the youtube videos where dumb animals refused to eat GMO foods...It sure makes you think...What do those animals know that we humans don't know?

Well, I could also say, except for taste, how did people pick food before there was science? Bitter berries bad, sweet berries good.

And I still say that relying primarily on taste is a bad system...Now in the case of good/bad berries...You realize of course that by the time that you taste and find out that a berry is bitter...You have already been poisoned!.

On the other hand...Many surviving indigenous people like the Indians always knew to watch the animals and then to eat the berries that the (dumb?) animals ate. (((and to avoid the other crap that the animals refused to eat))...When is modern man going to learn that lesson...or do we all have to end up extinct?

SoDamnHungry

I'm not sure why someone would think that organic veggies are more nutritious. The study seems pointless.

Agreed. Organic is about the level of pesticides used on (and still on/in) products, not how many nutrients are in them.