Organic: Don't Buy The Lie — Its Benefits Are Exaggerated
Ever been chastised at a farmers market or grocery store by some sanctimonious meddler praising the benefits of organic food and condemning the unenlightened choices of others?If so, don't feel low. No matter how righteous those people think they are, they don't know what they're talking about.Organic food zealots have no time for conventional grub. They say that unlike their pristine organic food, conventionally grown products are laced with toxins. It is a religion to some.It is, however, a false religion. Organic food has, as Henry I. Miller tells us, a "dirty" secret.Organic foods are not pesticide-free. "'Natural' ones are permitted," says Miller, a scientific philosophy fellow at the Hoover Institution. He adds, "The application of pathogen-laden animal excreta as fertilizer is allowed."And though "natural," they "can be toxic," he adds."As evolutionary biologist Christie Wilcox explained in a 2012 Scientific American article: 'Organic pesticides pose the same health risks as nonorganic ones. No matter what anyone tells you, organic pesticides don't just disappear,'" Miller writes.Neither are organic foods healthier, he says.Read More At Investor's Business Daily: http://news.investors.com/blogs-capital-hill/092515-772881-organic-not-healthy-or-environmentally-friendly-after-all.htm#ixzz3mnvUzQrm Follow us: @IBDinvestors on Twitter | InvestorsBusinessDaily on Facebook
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Very true. The term "organic" has very little real meaning when applied this way.