The principal difference to me is that organic fruit and vegetables reduce the amount of fertilizers and persticides polluting our water and that organic meat even more importantly reduces the amount of antibiotics released into the environment. Antibiotics are in fact traceable in almost all liquid water (except freshly molten glacier water etc) and affect the food chain and nature's system as a whole by either reducing bacterail growth or forcing the development by mutation of singly or multiply resistant bacteria. Anyone ever heard of the death toll of MRSA in hospitals? Well worth reading... it is not about your health, it is about the damage you do mainly. There are enough toxic substances in the environment to easily offset the benefits of organic food as it is... Cheers Ecke
2009/9/11 AlunFoto <alunf...@gmail.com>: > 2009/9/8 John Sessoms <jsessoms...@nc.rr.com>: >> >> What exactly *IS* organic? How does a product qualify to have that label? >> >> It's like things labeled "natural". It doesn't mean anything. > > What I do know is that unless you _are_ a vegetable, there's no such > thing as inorganic food. :-) > > What defined as organic is defined in legislation in Europe. However I > feel that the health effect of organic (or "ecological" as it is > labelled in Norway) is overrated for many products. Scary stories like > the peppers from Germany of course reinforces the good vs. bad > dichotomy, but for most products I don't think the difference is that > dramatic. > > On another note, high quality (and high price) non-organic food is > competing directly with its organic counterparts. The cheap stuff is > bad whether it's organic or not. > > Jostein > > > -- > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
