Organic Food is good for you?

[swestrup]

It seems that some scientists have just shown that not only do organic foods like Tomatoes have far fewer industrial toxins in them, they also have far more of the good stuff that nutritionists say you should have.

Comments

[sps.livejournal.com]

Of course, everyone knows that those damned nutritionists are in the pockets of the consumers!

[ellenk.livejournal.com]

Y'know, up until just recently, I thought "organic" was just a meaningless term to get people to buy stuff. Because I'd learned that "organic" meant carbon-based, so of COURSE a tomato is organic, how could it NOT be? ALL tomatoes are organic, unless they're made of plastic.

But I guess it has a new meaning now.

[sps.livejournal.com]

Yeah. The biggest single argument I have against the 'organic' food movement is its sensationalist/antirationalist marketing.

Why are good people so consistently determined to join the ranks of the enemy?

[swestrup]

Plastics are organic chemicals anyway, and I agree with you that whoever invented that terminology needs to be strung up by their toenails.

[taxlady.livejournal.com]

Of course "organic" food has more nutrients. You can tell by the fact that it has more flavour.

I love the way the article assumes that it is lack of nitrogen that causes the extra flavonoids in the organically grown tomatoes. How about maybe artificial fertilizers don't provide the plants with as much of what they need to produce nutrients? They claim that organically grown doesn't use fertilizer. Hogwash. They use old fashioned fertilizers.