Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Is Organic Food Marketing Misleading?


http://www.newsweek.com/2010/04/18/is-organic-food-marketing-hype.html
According to this Newsweek article a food critic and farmer go back and forth over whether organic food really makes a difference. The food critic states "As the former head of the Food Standards Agency, I am absolutely not anti-organic. I am pro accurate consumer information, pro healthy eating, and pro scientific analysis. Last week on television I saw a woman say, "I feel really guilty because I cannot afford organic food to feed my children a healthy diet." And that made me cross, because she didn't need to buy organic food to give her children a healthy diet, although six in 10 Americans who buy organic food believe it's healthier. In eight countries which have looked at this issue, in every case they have concluded there is no health benefit of eating organic food compared with conventional food." The critic also tells that there are pesticides in organic foods as well they are just a "different set". The farmer surprisingly sounds more intellectual and states that organic foods are able to meet the standards of organic food hype; such as being hypoallergenic. The farmer has 5 reasons why organic food is prime.
#1 Animals eat a diet free of excrementanimals eat a diet free of excrement
#2 Free of antibiotics
#3 No toxic heavy metals like arsenic
#4 Most organic foods do not allow use of pesticides
#5 Prohibits composting human waste for fertilizer.
These are all further explained in Article

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