organic food isnt better for you, i thought i would point that out

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organic food isn't bettr for you

But this is just quoting remarks by David Milliband. He's hardly going to offend the whole of the agrichemical industry is he? He doesn't cite any new research or studies to back up his views.

does he have to?
i'm not being fecaetious - i can't even spell it

Does it do you any harm?

But just think about it, how can it possibly be good for you to eat food that has been sprayed with very toxic chemicals, so much so that the people spraying it have to wear protective clothing/face masks. It just doesn't make sense that it is ok to eat stuff like that. Washing it is hardly going to make a difference is it.

And milk that comes from cows routinely pumped full of antibiotics, how can that be good.

Well.. I insisted in feeding DS organic food while a baby/toddler because we couldn't find the door with so many allergies... But there are some organic things that I wouldn't like him to eat.

Anyway, not that feeding him organic made a great difference (or at least none that we could see) he is as allergic as he has always been but at doing all organic gave me the idea I was doing something good for him even if I didn't know what

and even if it isn't any healthier (though I think it is) - it tastes better anyway!

is this a wind up?

so you recommend its much better that we munch some toxic chemicals, pesticides and subject animals to life of hell then?

theres no evidence to say otherwise

I started buying organic carrots years ago, when the official recommendation was to peel them due to the levels of pesticides (or herbicides, can't really remember which) close to the surface. I don't think that advice has changed, or did I miss it? It really worried me that we had got ourselves into the situation where we were being advised not to eat things which should be perfectly edible.

I don't believe in organic food. It's Just a marketing ploy and people fall for it, like the anti-wrinkle creams, yeah lets all pay £40 for a 30ml pot of crappy cream to make our wrinkles disappear...........

all food was pretty much organic before intensive farming....didn't do any harm then..

the results of this will come out soon in general health / well being of population
re: allergies, cancers and the like

statistics can be made to say pretty much anything whoever commissioned them wants to say..

what do you actually think? d'ya fancy some
cows milk w/ plenty mucus or not;
eggs from birds who are so close together in dark sheds peck off each others arses or not
veggies smothered in toxic chemicals or not?

There's no evidence to say otherwise because no-one is interested in collecting any evidence. The lack of evidence means nothing, unless someone has consistently and persistently looked for evidence and found none. But I don't think that's the case.

There was no evidence that tobacco smoke caused cancer for 400 years of use in the west, until someone looked for it and kept finding it, most inconveniently.

I've never really noticed the taste difference to be honest, just tend to stick to organic where possible because I believe it is better for you, whatever some people might say. However, my DDs hate non-organic milk, they say it tastes funny and always notice.

I've always thought it was a complete con, this organic stuff for namby pamby more money than sense middle class mothers who go to stupid farmer's markets etc

Food is safe if the food standards agency passes it - that's a liekly to be Tesco value brands as anything organic. But of course people think if they pay more things are better which is partly how these markets work.

It pisses me off when these twats refer to chemically assisted modern farming as "conventional methods" and organic farming as some sort of weird new-fangled fad. The truth is quite the reverse. Idiots.

I don't think it's a con. I think spraying food with hundreds of pesticides so it can be intensively farmed so it's cheaper so there's more profit is a con. People though DDT and asbestos were safe for years too.

John Humprys is interesting on the subject

"Food is safe if the food standards agency passes it"

You mean like the many pesticides which are banned each year as they suddenly decide they aren't quite as safe as they thought they were???

Many homegrown vegetables (which are extremely cheap) will be organic.

And I can buy mainly organic veg in my weekly shopping on a budget of £50-60 a week (for a family of 4 - to include nappies and nonfood stuffs) - and quite often organic meat too.......

"namby pamby more money than sense middle class mothers who go to stupid farmer's markets etc"

ROFL Xenia, you just get funnier and funnier, it's truly beautiful

Xenia, what a touching faith in government agencies you have.

There was something in The Sunday Times about this. However in same article it also listed how many different chemicals there are on on-organic food at any one time.

So, it is better to pump all those chemicals into my body than not?

I don't buy all organic, but I am increasing the amount I do buy. I started with my fruit and veg and it definitely tastes better than the non-organic. Dh thinks the organic meat I am starting to buy is better too.

I only buy organic meat because it will not have been routinely injected with antibiotics and the animals live a better life.

I buy organic Veg because it is creepy they way the non-organic stuff never goes off. What do they do to it?

Because the govt were so right about BSE weren't they? Gummer feeds his dd a burger

if anyone needs to know whether they should buy organic meat or not go to the US and see all the post puberty 9 year old girls from eating meat full of hormones.

you can (well i definitely can) taste the difference between organic and non organic courgettes, carrots & new potatoes
non organic milk seems slightly thicker... the mucus prob.

i don't go in for the organic biscuits/weetabix malarkey though.. and as for organic shampoos - shampoo is chemical, wtf?

they don't hit puberty at 9 because of hormones in meat

they hit puberty at 9 because they are too fat.

Andipose (fat) cells secrete hormones.

Go local w/your foodstuffs!