From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 11:02:03 MDT
> (Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com>):
>
> >The 'organics' industry is the core of unscientific luddism. The
> >claim that 'organic' food is any healthier than other food of the
> >same species and breed is entirely unsupported by scientific
> >evidence.
>
> This is incorrect, produce raised organically is higher in
> nutritional content. Maybe not significantly enough for you
> however.
Such a sweeping claim is absurd. In fairness, so is the sweeping
claim that organics don't have any nutritional benefit. The
truth is much more complicated and contentious. Studies have
shown advantages on both sides: some have even shown that frozen
vegetables are more nutritious than either fresh conventional or
fresh organics. You know the evidence must be pretty thin when
the current darling study of the pro-organics crowd is one that
shows that canned organic soups are high salicylic acid, which
can reducethe risk of heart attacks (and make your ulcers bleed,
and give your kids Reyes syndrome, which they conveniently omit).
The bacterial contamination issue is probably a red herring,
despite the infamous John Stossel piece. But the fact remains
that promoters of "organic" produce make the term meaningless,
because they don't even consider nutritional benefit in their
definition of the term. Golden rice, for example, will never be
labeled organic even if grown with natural methods, simply
because it has had vitamin A added genetically.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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