Comments on: Why Eating Organic Foods Should be a No-Brainer

By: dbar

dbar — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:31:59 +0000

Not true, if you do the research, you will find that overall, taking good years with bad years, organic farming product the same amount as conventional farming. The lies come from the chemical industry that is making fortunes selling the chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

By: dbar

dbar — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:26:04 +0000

I think the game is to kill them slowly, that way they don’t know you are killing them, and their kids will continue to buy your products, and their grandkids also.
As far as the government, if everyone would just die at age 65 we wouldn’t need to worry about medicare or social security. If you think they care, think again, they are looking for those that pay more taxes not the ones that are draining the tax money. Government is not the friend of the eldery.

By: BlueMicrowave

BlueMicrowave — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:27:46 +0000

Legally, in order to label food as organic, it must be grown without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or other artificial agents. This, of course, only applies to food and farming methods which is what the topic is mainly about. Are you suggesting that a little poison taken everyday, throughout the course of your life, will have absolutely no detrimental health affects? Are foods grown with the use of chemical agents as safe as foods grown without them?

By: RagingAura

RagingAura — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:44:33 +0000

it depends on the dose and the properties of the chemical
of course taking anything, like aspirin, alcohol, pesticides will have an effect over time but if the dose is small enough for the body to handle then you will probably suffer no effects. Think about it. Its not in the best interest of any company to use pesticides that killed their customers, and not in the governments, or anyone’s really. So its effects are tested and regulated.
pound per pound conventional is much more efficient.

By: RagingAura

RagingAura — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:28:22 +0000

Even with all the testing in the future we probably will find some very bad health effect or something with the pesticides
but the best thing is that scientists and farmers and people of all sorts will change pesticides and practices, and maybe we’ll get a better pesticide.

As for the last question the wording is odd, chemical agents include fertilizer, which is harmless unless you eat it, and pesticides, which usually wash away. I guess not, it would be a small difference.

By: RagingAura

RagingAura — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:49:16 +0000

I wish i could write more in one text box ~
And in the end, any detrimental health effects, no matter how large or small, are offset by the huge savings and efficiency of using pesticides. We are able to feed growing populations, and the starving people in poverty everywhere (actually that is caused by a lot of factors). Many, many more minds, more people, living, breathing, thinking. And until organic gets close to the value of conventional with all its pesticides etc I will prefer conventional

By: faulk511

faulk511 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:41:01 +0000

What this guy doesn’t know is some organic products are grown right next to crops that aren’t organic. Crop Dusters, Spray Drift, and pesticide runoff from these crops can cause cross contamination. Meaning your organics just aren’t all that organic. Plus there are pesticides out there that are “labeled” for Organic Crop production – Don’t forget to eat your veggies and pay your premium for it. The marketing worked well.. Use Nitrile gloves around pesticides next time not kitchen gloves!

By: 1lastsht

1lastsht — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:05:17 +0000

Awesome

By: ExquisiteDoom

ExquisiteDoom — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:32:47 +0000

Gotta say one thing here, the government does not give a crap about you or me, and the FDA could not be more corrupt. There are so many terrible toxins and agents that directly attack your body (mostly your brain) that FDA simply approved for the sake of allowing big pharmas and monsanto to make a bigger profit. the FDA is one of the greasiest organisations, along with the wall street commissions. Which a lot of them actually remain in your body as a compound poison, such as fluoride.

By: RagingAura

RagingAura — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:29:49 +0000

if you take the time to research that kind of thing, the chemical processes that actually occur in your body you will understand that his kind of this is negligible to what we do to ourselves.
Overeating, inactivity, smoking, alcohol.
If you would like i could explain them all to you.

Cancer and every other disease is on the rise. A rise yes, but not a very steep, yet the world population is increasing exponentially. It’s only natural for diseases to follow suit.