The superiority of organic food, even something as absurd as "organic eggs", is a fundamental tenet of the DUmmy philosophy. It doesn't matter that no science of any kind can find the slightest advantage, or that the poisonous chemicals, pesticides, hormones, and nefarious genetic modifications DUmmies wail about cannot be found in any way deleterious, if even present. No, organic is better, it just is. They can feel it. So Dummies pay double for their produce, and farmers gladly toss their blemished fruits and vegetables into the "organic" category rather than plowing them under.
So it is no surprise that DUmmy cali ignites a firestorm by posting a factual article:
cali (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 03:18 PM
Original message
Organic food is no healthier, study finds
LONDON (Reuters) – Organic food has no nutritional or health benefits over ordinary food, according to a major study published Wednesday.
Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said consumers were paying higher prices for organic food because of its perceived health benefits, creating a global organic market worth an estimated $48 billion in 2007.
A systematic review of 162 scientific papers published in the scientific literature over the last 50 years, however, found there was no significant difference.
"A small number of differences in nutrient content were found to exist between organically and conventionally produced foodstuffs, but these are unlikely to be of any public health relevance," said Alan Dangour, one of the report's authors.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090729/hl_nm/us_food_organ...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6178986Armchair QB (3 posts) Wed Jul-29-09 03:21 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. Organic is just another way of saying
More Expensive
DUmmy Armchair QB is not me, I promise.
ananda (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 03:22 PM
Response to Original message
3. The study is bullshit.
Organic IS healthier.
NeedleCast (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 03:26 PM
Response to Reply #3
8. Lulz?
That study provided data. You provided opinion and no data. You lose.
DUmmies don't need no stinking data.
SpiralHawk (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 03:47 PM
Response to Reply #8
37. You want data? Here's your data
Eat mutant chemicalized corporate food-product crapola all the time and you will turn into a big tub of Republicon Homelander spewage with ass pimples, like Limbaugh.
That's my data-based FACT. You lose.
spiritual_gunfighter (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 03:56 PM
Response to Reply #37
43. I like your data
Personally I stopped eating chemical corporate food product crapola, and I stopped eating meat, I lost 150 pounds, lost my diabetes, lost my high blood pressure and hypertension and reversed damage done to my heart. So I will take the organic food and remain a vegetarian, thank you.
Wow. I had no idea organic food could do all that!
Now the DUmmies start a brief pissing match over who is more politically correct in toeing the organic line:
cali (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 03:37 PM
Response to Reply #6
27. absolutely. I prefer organic and about 60 to 70% of what I purchase is certified organic
having said that, local is even more important to me than organic.
BonnieJW (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 04:00 PM
Response to Reply #27
47. I purchase from an organic farmer's stand.
His pesticide is his chickens which have free range among his fields. His fertilizer is the poop from those same chickens. I also purchase eggs and, yes, chicken from this farmer also. His v*****s have the same nutrients as the v*****s I can purchase from the store; however, his v*****s don't have herbicide and pesticide on them. His v*****s are not genetically modified. His chickens are treated humanely and are allowed to do what chickens are supposed to do: eat bugs and lay eggs.
grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 03:26 PM
Response to Original message
9. I can TASTE the chemicals in non-organic food in a blind test!
JonQ (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 03:41 PM
Response to Reply #9
32. I doubt you can
unless you are some next leap in human evolution with superior taste buds.
cali (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 03:40 PM
Response to Reply #11
31. just a reminder: posting an article is a de facto endorsement of any pov
as it happens, I prefer to buy organic produce and re the small amount of meat I buy, I always buy organic
.
malaise (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 03:56 PM
Response to Reply #31
44. I buy organic and I don't
eat red meat.
cali (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 03:59 PM
Response to Reply #44
46. This isn't a contest, but what the hell.... not only do I largely buy organic I grow my own organic
vegetables in the summer. And that's a real committment. Anyway, that wasn't my point. My point, simply, was that just because I posted a story, doesn't mean that I endorse it. That's all.
hedgehog (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 03:34 PM
Response to Reply #20
24. Good point - measuring nutrients directly only measures the
nutrients we know about.
DUmmy hedgehog is willing to pay double for mystery nutrients.
Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Wed Jul-29-09 03:35 PM
Response to Reply #22
26. I know. That's why I stopped eating entirely in 1982.
It's worked out great.
I think we're having some free-range asparagus with dinner tonight.