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UK's FSA Finds No Health Benefits To Organic Food
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."
There's a reason why we live so much longer now a days compared to middle ages and before and hell, even to beginning of 1900. That is technological improvement, so there's no really any reason why technologically made or improved food would be more riskier.
Technology has improved lots of things in our world and even more during the last hundred years, so why not the food industry aswell. The old ways sometimes.. correction, usually aren't the best way. They're always just based on what people knew at that time and because it got widely known as "truth".
One example about why past times doesn't work good now. Even 50-100 years ago it was a lot more difficult for people to get food. In my country usual food consisted almost 60% of carbs like potatoes etc, because farming land and the climate was good for it, hence it being cheap. And because getting food was still somewhat hard to get, people we're living good and healthy and fit. It's completely different situation now when you can just go to mcdonalds and order fatty food for 1-2 dollars. However just out of history my gov keeps promoting the same ingredient amounts to everyone (specially what pupils/students eat in school), while high bad carbs are really, really bad in the amounts they've being consumed now a days. Food has become so cheap that the habits need to change.
World changes during time.
And hell, I rather eat food thats *NOT* made in cow shit just because its "natural" based on human history and was the only way to make it at the time.
I'm afraid you're wrong.
This is your lucky day! You can your fears to rest, because I'm right.
Please, like so many others, do some reading.
That's advice you would do well to follow.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
I mean, the idea that the shills who write up this claptrap, actually believe that the public at large have feeble enough minds to accept amazingly fallacious tripe like this, is a symptom of the radical level of their delusion. that's the kind of logic that you use on 6 year olds to get them to eat their vegetables. Just stating wild, base level, counter-intuitions and hoping nobody calls your bluff. That is what the scientific method in the service of industry has become; that is hugely and properly shameful. And, not to mention the fact, that the issue that they choose to focus this chicanery around is the fundamental quality of the base of your life, your food supply. Literally lying to the root...frakking unconscionable! Here's another breaking headline!!! It's not the cessation of breathing that kills you, it's the want of air... I mean for crying out loud...