What Does "Organic" Mean, and Should You Buy Organic Foods?

[Quixote1818]

[randr]

1. Agribusiness propaganda

The last graphic tells it all,
You shouldnt buy food because ots tastier and healthier.

[Eko]

8. "You shouldnt buy food because its tastier and healthier"

I think you misunderstood that part, its because its not healthier and tastier.

[CrispyQ]

2. I can't afford the farmer's markets around here.

The prices they charge for their locally, sometimes organic produce is ridiculous, but someone has the bucks, cuz their CSAs fill up every year by early spring, & the markets are always bustling.

[pansypoo53219]

7. not ours. specials on wonky pickle cucumbers. taste the same.

[Achilleaze]

3. Chemo-Mutant AgriCrud Corp sez "no, buy our crap"

Surprise surprise.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. It's a mixed bag

Some things are worth buying organic, some not, some you just avoid altogether

I like organic potatoes, strawberries, and oatmeal. Iceberg lettuce I avoid. Cantaloupes I give a smell test. Greens - broccoli, Romaine, leafies - buy organic, or use a (natural) acid spray for a minute, then rinse to reduce pesticides. Seeds can concentrate pesticides and herbicides. If not organic, toss them.

I wash - lightly scrub, really - tomatoes and zucchini with detergent, then rinse. To lengthen shelf life many are bathed in food grade paraffin wax. Removing that, I find, improves the flavor by removing a slight bitter aftertaste. I found this out by buying tomatoes at a market stand ... the tomatoes were slippery wet, but it wasn't water. They had just been treated.

These are habits I assembled over the years from bits here or there, began with a cancer researcher's presentation. Your results are your own.

[Crazyleftie]

5. What a bunch of corporate crap

ALL OF IT.....I don't want to waste my time refuting his points, but why is this posted on DU?

[Quixote1818]

6. Because it's actually based on science and most on DU agree with it?

You do know that most organic farming is corporate too right? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/06/your-favorite-organic-brand-is-actually-owned-by-a-multinational-food-company/?utm_term=.e0c6ab7a9869

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/3-big-companies-dominate-organic-162641331.html

https://www.vox.com/2014/7/16/5899347/organic-produce-debate-healthier-more-nutritious

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/httpblogsscientificamericancomscience-sushi20110718mythbusting-101-organic-farming-conventional-agriculture/


Plenty more links if you need them.

[dalton99a]

11. +1

[Crazyleftie]

14. "most on DU agree with it"...???

Have you done a survey...let me know.
I prefer my food chemical free and as natural as possible
without glyphosate antibiotic and whatever pesticide, etc is on it
and it is ok if a big corporation provides it
and do you really believe it when the FDA says it is safe?
I do understand that there are problems with labeling, content and origin of "organic food", that will hopefully be resolved in time
I could give you some links as well but it probably won't matter to the people in your "survey"
the arguments in the video are still bogus and incomplete


https://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/issues/1039/food-irradiation/about-food-irradiation

[apkhgp]

9. Salmonella food poisoning

I can tell you that Salmonella food poisoning is not a picnic. I had it and I had to be hospitalized for two weeks. But I am still going to be buying my Non Organic food. Until somebody comes out and says this stuff is markedly better than the Non Organic.

[tomhagen]

10. doesn't it mean no Roundup? No Glyphosate in your lettuce?

[pansypoo53219]

12. FIND organic pepper. i got some simply organic for xmas. so much better.

[scarytomcat]

13. unfortunately he kind of skipped over growth hormones and antibiotics

which can be very bad and unhealthy
these are reasons I buy organic meats and chicken (no hormones and antibiotics)
and because meats and chicken cause environmental problems I eat a lot less of them
and I support local because it just makes sense not to truck food from long distance and it is nice to know the farmer and support them