"Organic" Farming and the True Cost of Food-A Small Farmers Perspective

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96. Do the trees add up to much of a forest, that's the real question

If you do a longitudinal comparison between people who've eaten organic all of their lives, and people who haven't, then (while useful in other contexts -- more information is always better, I'm not disparaging basic research) all of those other individual issues you bring up are a bit beside the point.

On a population level, once you account for other things that can improve health that going along with eating organic -- particularly being able to afford it (since better income increases health and longevity), and being more focused on healthy food choices in general along with the organic aspect -- it should be apparent if sparing people all of those separate different chemical exposures adds up to better health and longer life.

That's what hasn't conclusively shown up in any studies that I've heard of, except that one study that shows a pretty minor effect.