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In reply to the discussion: 4 Myths about Organic Foods / Healthy Food Secrets [View all]Berlum
(7,044 posts)Organics has never distinguished itself by claiming it has more minerals and vitamins. Thus, her whole premise is false on that score. It is not and never was a "myth."
Organics has claimed -- accurately -- that it was (and is) free of the vast batch of poisonous chemicals that infest many of the foods served up by the industrial system. As everyone should know, medical science shows resounding evidence about the quantity and the impact of these chemicals which have built up so intensely and damagingly in human bodies over the last 40 years.
That's not a 'myth' anyone can bust with a stanking straw man, it's a big fat freaking fact.
* A straw man is a type of argument -- an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man" ,