Are organic products really better then usual?

Question

Some data are suspicious. Some of them are the order of the owners of the busyness, It's interesting to know all pro and contra. Sometimes it seems like a mode and not more?If you have proofs,give the references

Answer 1

and it is suspicious that ag chemical companies sponsor research that slams organic and puts their products in a good light hmmm...

Check out the Hudson Institute and see who funds their anti organic agriculture research sometime. As well as who is funding all the research on biotech crops and the ag universities who train the scientists who will in the future be creating such. I'll just say it ain't the organic farmers and it ain't independent researchers.

There are more and more peer reviewed independant studies coming out almost daily now that indicated if not prove that food grown in organically managed soils is far more nutritious than food grown on dead chemically addicted soils. We don't know why but suspect it is because organically managed soils have the full compliment of nutrients and the soils that have chemical N-P-K fertilizers simply do not. it is now known that crops groiwn with too much nitrogen are depleted in nutrients (but the look great)

http://www.organicconsumers.org has many many articles archived about this topic

Answer 2

The USDA organic foods standards can be found here:

http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?...

Answer 3

No I dont believe so, in some cases they taste better, but not always. I suppose they have no peticide, but you should wash all fresh fruit and vegetables anyway, but they are treated the same as non organic, eg picked early and ripened at the supermarket.

Answer 4

yes becuase they dont have Es and are not treated with pesticides and othere chimical stuff

Answer 5

In plants-

Organic food is food that has not been grown using potentially hazardous chemicals such as pesticides herbicides and fungicides. They are not grown using human f***s and raw sewage. They are not exposed to radiation. They are not genetically modified.

In animals-

Livestock are fed natural diets (cows eat organic grass, not corn which is unhealthy-->makes cows unhealthy-->burgers high in saturated fat). They are not pumped with potentially hazardous chemicals such as growth hormones antibiotics and steroids. They are butchered properly (don't release adrenaline-like drugs into their meat) and are cleaned properly (after being killed livestock defecate themselves...some farmers do not clean them off). Livestock are not confined to sitting in their f***s all day.

In return organic products are more expensive.

Whether or not these cause any serious harm directly is unknown because these methods are poorly tested. Who is testing them? Not the people using them.

You have to ask yourself

Do you want to eat something that may or may not be killing you??

Answer 6

Organic food has no pesticide on it. Non-organic does, and pesticide is know to cause problems.

If you wanna eat that c**p, go ahead, but don't try convincing people who won't eat those foods that what they eat isn't good, or that the studies were conducted by the owners.

Why would a foundation for cancer study on some other disease? They wouldn't. So, why should it be different for food?

Answer 7

Well, we've all heard the benefits of eating foods that are filled with chemicals and pesticides, but there's another factor that comes in to play when buying organic that most people don't know about.  This is most important in produce and especially in fruit.

Conventional farming methods strip the earth of the minerals needed to make the plants grow properly. To correct this they use chemicals to make the produce grow and look appetizing.  The problem is that these minerals that are now missing, are supposed to go into the food that is grown, and then into our bodies when we eat this food.  The natural sugars found in fruit, actually need these minerals so our body can process the sugars.  Without the minerals, we can't process these sugars correctly and eventually our blood glucose will elevate and we can become insulin resistant or even type II diabetic. So, it's a lot more than just avoiding pesticides.  It's also about getting the nutrients out of the food and the conventional farming methods grow foods that are void of these nutrients.