Organic food
Betsy Hart’s article, “The truth about organic food,” failed to tell the whole truth. We do, indeed, enjoy our favorite foods year round due to the liberal use of chemicals, fertilizers, expensive packaging and modern transportation, but we are not necessarily healthier as a result. Eating the same foods year round, rather than varying foods by season, wrecks havoc on our digestive system leading to well-documented increses in allergies and asthma and contributes to other digestive disorders.
Numerous studies have shown that organically grown fruits and vegetables have 10-100% more of a wide range of vitamins and minerals.
These studies are so well-documented that the most highly regarded companies in the field of nutritional supplements (Juice Plus, Vibe & Nutrilite, to name a few) derive their products from organically grown whole foods.
During a recent visit to Costa Rica, I learned that the major cause of disease-related death in the country is from stomach cancer, which is directly related to drinking water polluted by run-off from the large banana and coffee plantations. Local growers are switching to organic, but the larger, American owned plantations are resisting.
Closer to home, TIME magazine featured a story about the doubling in size of the “red tide” in the Gulf of Mexico caused by fertilizers and pesticides carried down the Mississippi River. This deadly pollution is killing off our local supply of seafood and destroying the ecosystem of the gulf for miles around the mouth of the Mississippi.
Betsy says she is thinking about what is best for her family. Too bad she doesn’t realize how inter-connected we all are.
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"These studies are so well-documented that the most highly regarded companies in the field of nutritional supplements (Juice Plus, Vibe & Nutrilite, to name a few) derive their products from organically grown whole foods." Interesting, the vary people who probably sponsored the study and/or think they can make a profit by exploiting results.
"During a recent visit to Costa Rica, I learned......." from who?
I find something suspect in the statement that "both fertilizer and pesticides" are contributing to red tide, it seems a bit "oxymoronic" doesn't it.
OK Most "chemical" ferilizer is from NATURAL phosphate deposits. These deposits consist of lithified fish crap! how much more natural can you get?
Yes, Nancy, we are all interconnected, but that connection does not stop after the touch feely organisms. Every atom that was there at the Big Bang is still here now.
What happens in the future is beyond our knowledge. There is just as much chance that the organic chemical soup we are creating will cause life on earth to progress and not decline. The earth has actually suffered many changes ( read catastrophes, if you like) far greater than what a few chemicals or degrees in temperature MIGHT cause.
To digress at bit , Why are people so scared of change. The next evolutinary step may be beings that can survive in CO2 or methane or ammonnia. Hmmmm, that is the atmosphere of some other environments, say ....other planets. WHat if.........?
AF
What is inorganic or non-organic food?
Posted by Breeze on August 31, 2007 12:44 PM"Juice Plus, Vibe & Nutrilite, to name a few, derive their products from organically grown whole foods."
I don't know about Vibe abd Nutrilite, but Juice Plus doesn't contain any organic ingredients according to the information listed on the bottle.