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In reply to the discussion: This Family Ate Only Organic For Two Weeks - Watch What Happened [View all]Android3.14
(5,402 posts)52. "watch what happened"
More click bait. Maybe they should have included the words "one weird trick" in the title.
Did the family health improve? How much more did the organics cost? What were the levels compared to known toxic amounts?
How will agriculture feed the 7.3 billion people currently on the planet without the support of chemicals?
I support labeling and denounce the copyright of genetic code, but this video is just plain propaganda by the organic food industry for a product that pretty much only rich people can afford.
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...to point out how a non-peer reviewed and biased "study" amounts to a hill of beans?
Major Nikon
May 2015
#3
It's described as a pilot study and limitations are discussed in the study's report.
Gormy Cuss
May 2015
#5
You just articulated what would be measured. Whether the measured change is significant or
Gormy Cuss
May 2015
#16
Which would make any hypothetically larger study no more valuable than this one
Major Nikon
May 2015
#17
The testing and video was asking the family: Do you want so many pesticides in your bodies?
vkkv
May 2015
#33
The same ones who shill for Monsanto are the same ones who shill for NSA, drones, militarized police
whereisjustice
May 2015
#14
That "normal" level of pesticide chemicals in our blood or urine would be...
bearssoapbox
May 2015
#23
thank you for all this. some of the responses here were. . .interesting, to say the least.
niyad
May 2015
#34
All the same responses ad nauseum. All I say is label the food...I want to KNOW. I just want to
mother earth
May 2015
#46