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UK's FSA Finds No Health Benefits To Organic Food

Posted by samzenpus on from the 30-day-detox-delusion dept.

blackbeak writes "The UK Food Standards Agency's 'Independant Organic Review' results were just released, and the BBC rushed to publish the findings in the shockingly titled article, 'No Health Benefits to Organic Food.' From the article, 'There is little difference in nutritional value and no evidence of any extra health benefits from eating organic produce, UK researchers found.' A peek into the research at Postpeakpublishing provides a slightly deeper look."

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  1. Re:World improves by overbaud · · Score: 5, Funny

    Last time I checked food is not 'made' in cow shit. Unless of course there are small pixie like creatures in cow pat factories making food that the rest of the world is yet to discover. Kinda like cow shit oompa loopmas.

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  2. Damn! by CaptainOfSpray · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just checked the new import rules on Food Agency website.

    Sad to say, Australians are still permitted to import V*g*m*te.

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    1. Re:Damn! by TapeCutter · · Score: 1, Funny

      We don't export it, it escapes.

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  3. Re:World improves by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Around the turn of the last century, we needed about 80% of the US population working on farms to feed us all. Today, it's more like 4%, and we're the world's biggest food exporter. What do you think made that possible?

    Illegal immigrants?

  4. Is there an alternative by rossdee · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't think there is a lot of nutrition in inorganic food...

  5. Re:from TFA - it tastes better too. by Rob+the+Bold · · Score: 5, Funny

    Recently I was forced to live without a refrigerator. I bought a few heads of lettuce from the local supermarket; and I bought a few from the local organic farmers' market. Stored under my bed, 80 degree temperatures. Supermarket lasted one day before it was mush; local+organic, nearly a full week.

    When I got up this morning, the last thing I expected to read about was someone storing lettuce under his bed. Guess I can get to work now.

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  6. Yeah but I really like hamburgers.. by tjstork · · Score: 3, Funny

    We could easily feed the world if the industrial nations wouldn't insist on their daily hamburgers and steaks.

    If some jackass in India or China can take my job by bidding below me, they can starve. At least while I'm unemployed I can hit the dollar menu and enjoy a tasty hamburger because we Americans have enough land to feed ourselves. If they can't overseas, well, its not my problem. They take my job, I take their food. Screw them.

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