Organics May Not Be Healthier, But At Least They Don't Have Pesticide

• so true, keep in mind that these reports are all backed by big companies who have millions of dollars in marketing budgets to make sure they remain profitable.

• Conventional agriculture attempts to feed the plants while the organic method nourishes the microorganisms in the soil. The mineral content of plants depends on the amounts present in the soil in which they are grown. Organic foods are cultivated in richer soils, so their mineral content is higher. Hence the saying, "Healthy soil is more valuable than gold." Furthermore, the title suggests the biggest concern: Organics May Not Be Healthier, But At Least They Don't Have Pesticide. When was the last time you said to the waiter, "Excuse me could I please have some poison in my soup I believe there's an enzyme floating in there."

• Jacob, you are right on,as usual, in my opinion. Science and commercial interests destroy any residue of truth. With my situation, I see so called organic stuff on the market that is scary. It may be organic, but in name only. DDT stays around in the dirt, says Mr. Loys Johns, my organic mentor, with his 4th grade education. All life is organic, period! That said, is it possible that some foods grown in a substrate that comes from some rotted things(compost)dangerous? Pesticides and herbicides and some chemicals weaken the life force. I can attest that the organic food Mr. Johns showed me how to grow tasted better than that grown next door by a neighbor with a heavy hand for nitrate fertilizer. Can we say life comes only from life? And what happens if the stuff you are rotting has poisons already in it? Know your source is a rule for locavores. It seems to me that all life is chemicals, but some chemistry is better than other chemistry. Does anybody remember the movie King Kong? A sweet young girl is idealized by a supersized gorilla. It is quite obvious (and this got through the Hayes and Bareen Nazis) that this marriage is in for trouble on the wedding night. Here is shown a place where life is not going to produce life au natural, unless testy Test Tube Science steps in. Hoo Rah for science! The sweet young thing can be the mother of a gorilla. Testy old science is played out again on your Thanksgiving table when you carve up The Bird. Butter Ball does not ball anymore. These critters no longer can reproduce by themselves. Man has to do the sex part for them. Is Life from Life via third party here a life for our poor turkey? The humble corn plant is in a similar fix. Corn for centuries needs the hand of a farmer to grow it. Corn cannot survive in the wild anymore. Does this mean we should stop eating corn or turkey? Bingo for another bit player, THE TERMINATOR GENE, as it is called. This one, once implanted in the cell prevents all reproduction. Will they put this gene in humans to stop filling the planet with too many children? Actually war is bad for business when the purpose is simply to remove XS breeders from the planet. But... with this all organic terminater gene we don't have to blow up factories anymore. THAT is destructive. Will People Park be a sequel for Jurrasic Park? Only our friends in Corporate know. Actually the first artificial life was created here in South Florida in Boca Raton, and I do not speak of the alien freako claim about their so called "First Cloned Human" down in Dania. In Boca, they took a Tobacco mosaic virus, and broke it down into simple RNA steps they could synthesize in a lab. They then took these pieces like a jig saw puzzle from steps they had manufactured and Voila! They had a virus that was living and could infect a living tobacco plant. And that, folks, is about as organic as you can get. Scary? Organic vegetables are certified organic, or should be, by OCIA (Organic Crop Improvement Association). Being human, I suppose any organization can become corrupt, but we go with what we got, and these folks have been around for a while, and are still trustworthy. I cannot tell without a lab, if there are pesticide residues, but I can tell you this. Organic produce tastes sweeter because it takes the plant energy to produce sugars and that means there are necessary minerals to keep your body alive. The enzymes are there too to help you. Organic vegetables when alive, take longer to rot because their life energy is more than unhealthy mineral imbalanced vegatables. Lastly, don't go by size like King Kong. Too much nitrogen will puff up the plant at the cost of other minerals. Nutrient Density is the key. Good produce is a little heavier, size for size, than vegetables grown in an unbalanced soil. As for pesticides? The US does not allow some poisons to be used in the USA, but they are still manufactured in the USA. That means they have to go somewhere. Can it be they go to third world places to grow vegetables that come back into our country untested for these pesticides? The law states that the place of origin must tell you where vegetables are grown. If you don't see it, raise hell with the grocery manager. And eat as local as you can. Become a locavore! And above all stay alive. The food you eat is going to become you! Thank you Jacob for always telling it how it is. Burton Dale

• Exactly, that's why I do most my food shopping at gas stations. Agriculture is perfectly natural, but there's a difference between that and the agroindustrial complex, of which organic divisions are a huge and growing segment. No healthier, less pesticides, maybe

• You won't be eating much if you only eat wild food. Organics is not a natural crop - it is just as domesticated as conventional agriculture. And that is a good thing because natural food is usually pretty poisonous. We domesticated most of our food species about 10-15 thousand years ago. This allowed us to build civilisations and advance as a species. Prior to this we were hunters and gatherers and lived a nomadic lifestyle because we eventually depleted all the food in a region. All agriculture is unnatural by definition. That is if by unnatural you mean human... which is after all just as natural as any other animal.

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