Reply #32: There is an attack going on right now against organic foods. [View All]

[Honeycombe8]

I'm seeing stories all over the place.

The attack goes something like, "Breaking News! FDA studies discover that organic foods do not contain more anti-oxidants than nonorganic foods!"

Here's the catch: Whoever said or believed that organic foods have more Vitamin C than nonorganic foods? I've been reading about organic foods for years; I have NEVER seen anything to lead me to believe that they contain more nutrients. If anyone thinks that, they are woefully uninformed.

What organic foods have that nonorganic foods don't have:

Lack of growth hormones
Lack of nonorganic pesticides
More animal-friendly methods

So, no, these things do not make something healthier, so to speak. It makes organic foods LESS HARMFUL than nonorganic foods. That's a different thing.

Toxins are building up in our bodies, esp. children because they have little bodies. A lot of the toxins are coming from what we eat. CNN did a series of stories on this last year. Anderson Cooper was tested and surprised to find he had an unhealthy level of mercury or something in his system. (BTW...that level is permanent; once there, it doesn't leave.) The drs. surmised it was from eating fish from the Hudson River.

So organic foods wouldn't have made Cooper "healthier," so to speak. But it would have resulted in him being "less harmed" by the food he ate.

Plus, let's not forget the cruelty involved in the caging process of chickens. It's a good thing when things are as natural as possible.

Having said all that, organic foods are very expensive. The average person can't afford them. I make a good living, and I can't afford to eat an organic based diet. The most I can do is buy certain things organic, and splurge sometimes on other things.

But the organic food business has exploded in recent years. So there is a concerted effort by the corporate food industry to put a stop to that.