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How is Eating Organic still a Damn Debate?

by Jason November 18th, 2009 - 4 Comments »

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This is a follow up to our Penn and Teller’s Bullshit Post about organic food.

How is eating or not eating organic still debatable? It comes down to the informed vs the non-informed.

Organic is important in so many respects.
- Not genetically modified
- Better Taste for most produce
- Better for your body (Pesticide free etc)
- Healthy work environment for field workers
- Helps maintain biodiversity
- Keeps family farms in business
- Better for the environment

I didn’t want anything to do with organic 3 years ago..then i started reading. I now eat organic.

Read up on companies like Monsanto, Cargil, BASF, Bayer, Bunge. If you don’t want to do the research watch youtube videos on the subject. Here’s one about Monsanto

We spend less on food than ever in history. An egg does not cost 18 cents unless it’s a genetically modified chicken, grown in a cage, fed genetically modified grain and pumped with hormones and antibiotics. The same group of companies grow your beef, fruits an veggies. They also make medications to treat cancer caused by their foods and their chemical fire retardants now found in your mattress, couch, computer, carpet etc which they lobbied to have MANDATORY.

I don’t want to put ANY money in their pockets. That’s why i eat organic.

Lobbyists are über powerful. Just recently a New York Times article revealed that “Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech”. Genentech, a subsidiary of the Swiss drug giant Roche, estimates that 42 House members picked up some of its talking points — 22 Republicans and 20 Democrats, an unusual bipartisan coup for lobbyists.”

obamaObama ain’t going to save you either as he just nominated pesticide executive to be chief agricultural negotiator in the Office of the US Trade Representative.

Obama also appointed former Monsanto shill Tom Vilsack as USDA Chief. So Obama is not on our side when it comes to the food we eat.

Not eating organic is the equivalent of voting for everything that’s wrong. Anyone who can afford to eat organic should. It’s the only way to take back our food and integrity.

Other articles that may interest you:
Your Corn Flakes are messed with
Canada Warns other Countries about their GMO Problem

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  1. November 18th, 2009 at 5:29 pm Garet writes:

    Maybe it’s debatable because all of your points are incorrect? You’ve got no credible science to back up your religious claims about organic. All you’re doing is promoting trendy expensive food, and raising the price for those who aren’t fortunate enough to jump on the expensive bandwagon.

  2. November 18th, 2009 at 5:42 pm Jason writes:

    Hi Garet,

    Organic is gaining in popularity because it makes sense. “Trendiness” has nothing to do with it, for most.

    I don’t understand your argument. What is incorrect?

  3. November 21st, 2009 at 6:33 pm Jan Ruud Schutrups writes:

    As Garet stated earlier, there are no scientific arguments to back up your ‘religion’. If there are I would love to examine them because a good skeptic is always open to debate. Until then, it’s not based on logic to choose organic over non organic foods.

  4. November 22nd, 2009 at 3:05 pm Jason writes:

    Religion? Far from. Religion is a belief system. My eating organic is based on facts.

    Spend just 1h reading and watching docs on the subject. It’ll become very clear, very fast.

    Here’s some more info.

    - Not genetically modified
    http://www.holistic.com/holistic/learning.nsf/0/01b2264aecdc096a87256a3b0001cff9?OpenDocument
    http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/biology/b103/f00/web1/lim.html
    http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/pusztai.html
    http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/geff4.html
    http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/why-gmo-foods-have-failed.php

    - Better Taste for most produce
    Something you have to experience.

    - Better for your body (Pesticide free etc)
    http://ohioline.osu.edu/b745/b745_4.html
    http://www.prn2.usm.my/mainsite/bulletin/sun/1997/sun6.html
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-413581/How-toxic-body.html

    - Healthy work environment for field workers
    http://www.panna.org/ops/journal

    - Helps maintain biodiversity
    http://www.icrofs.org/Pages/Research/pdf/refugia1.pdf
    http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/organic/environment/biodiversity_en
    http://www.adbi.org/working-paper/2009/10/15/3347.biodiversity.organic.agriculture/

    - Keeps family farms in business
    http://www.sustainabletable.org/issues/familyfarms
    http://www.oxfamamerica.org/articles/losing-the-family-farm
    http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14328
    http://farmwars.info/?p=594

    - Better for the environment
    http://www.strauscom.com/rodale-whitepaper/
    http://www.mofga.org/tabid/166/Default.aspx
    A study did come out stating that organic is not better in call cases. It did not take into account “animal welfare, soil condition and water use”