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LanternWaste

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18. I began purchasing organic three years ago due to its lack of unnecessary chemical treatments.

Wed Sep 5, 2012, 01:54 PM

Sep 2012

I began purchasing organic three years ago due to its lack of unnecessary chemical treatments. Between that, meeting many new friends at the Farmers Market, and getting a (rather late-in-life) education re: farming and distribution of farm products, it's been nothing but a positive experience.

As an aside: a tried free-range beef for the first time about three or four months ago, and from where I sit, the taste truly is staggeringly different, so I've been purchasing more and more free range from a local butcher.

But in the end, I imagine someone, somewhere will attempt to trivialize or minimize that particular type of collective change in our diets to illustrate how clever they are for out entertainment...

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Organic Food Isn't More Nutritious, but That Isn't the Point [View all] xchrom Sep 2012 OP

this other article and thread rips the Stanford press release / study even harder KurtNYC Sep 2012 #1

Except many people have claimed organic is more nutritious over the years 4th law of robotics Sep 2012 #11

Pesticides are the driver for organic purchasers -- NOT nutrition KurtNYC Sep 2012 #13

True/false 4th law of robotics Sep 2012 #14

This would seem to be logical. hifiguy Sep 2012 #21

10 pounds of organic wheat weighs the same as 10 pounds of non-organic wheat jberryhill Sep 2012 #2

+1 lol nt Live and Learn Sep 2012 #3

Bottled water may be wetter than tap water jberryhill Sep 2012 #4

In this case organic producers *have* argued 4th law of robotics Sep 2012 #17

And Wonder Bread grows healthy bodies twelve ways jberryhill Sep 2012 #22

Do you count a majority as "widespread"? 4th law of robotics Sep 2012 #23

I guess it depends on what their understanding of "nutritious" is jberryhill Sep 2012 #26

And the goalposts are moved again 4th law of robotics Sep 2012 #27

That is a false statement of where we've been jberryhill Sep 2012 #28

What we know so far: 4th law of robotics Sep 2012 #29

What do you think you are arguing about? jberryhill Sep 2012 #30

Your comment clearly implied this study was a strawman 4th law of robotics Sep 2012 #31

My comment was a joke jberryhill Sep 2012 #32

Organic farrming is good for the soil; traditional farming is more like mining in the sense of top byeya Sep 2012 #5

+1 (nt) enough Sep 2012 #8

Labor issues as well as nutrition issues central scrutinizer Sep 2012 #6

+1 xchrom Sep 2012 #7

I've argued on here for higher pay 4th law of robotics Sep 2012 #10

I'd shudder to think of working in any environment consistently sprayed with herbicides LanternWaste Sep 2012 #24

Organic is a fad for rich 1st worlders or something forced on poor third worlders 4th law of robotics Sep 2012 #9

Organic was the ONLY method of agriculture for thousands of years KurtNYC Sep 2012 #15

Polio was the norm for thousands of years 4th law of robotics Sep 2012 #16

Your mind reading abilities are no more reliable than your ability KurtNYC Sep 2012 #19

Wow, really? How do you not get this? 4th law of robotics Sep 2012 #20

Okay, I think I may have finally realized your point siligut Sep 2012 #38

Except many people, as I have cited 4th law of robotics Sep 2012 #39

The point of this article is that those who CANNOT afford organic Zoeisright Sep 2012 #12

I began purchasing organic three years ago due to its lack of unnecessary chemical treatments. LanternWaste Sep 2012 #18

It's proposition 37 in California requiring labling of GMO food... hunter Sep 2012 #25

The Stanford Organic Food Study..... DeSwiss Sep 2012 #33

I can't disagree w/ you. xchrom Sep 2012 #34

I never assumed organics were more nutritious Canuckistanian Sep 2012 #35

I have never read an article claiming organic food to be more nutritious. Maybe they're out there. Honeycombe8 Sep 2012 #36

k/r marmar Sep 2012 #37

K & R !!! WillyT Sep 2012 #40