eating organic

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i would choose a, we may not be recycling there waste to the full potential, but at least there wont be as many potentially life threatening diseases


This is unrelated to your comment, I don't have a problem with GM foods, but it has to be reasonable
I wouldn't want to see rice GM'ed just for the sake of making it whiter, that is just stupid, but instead GM it in to something more nutritious, I believe that we have GM sugar in Australia that had been specifically made for a longer GI index, I am not sure if it is GM'ed so feel free to correct me
That said, it may have some importance to store various seeds for various plants for preservation purposes, we are always making discoveries, and new things are always coming up, it is quite possible that we could of modified something useful out of a plant

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Personally I 'd like to get a set of super-hardy crop seeds. It'd be awesome to not have to rely on a supermarket.

I think you can eat healthily while only eating non-organic foods, so i think organic food is a bit of a scam really.

How can eating non-organic food be healthier, and in what way is the organic food movement a scam? I'm curious because, honestly, I don't know how much longer I'm going to be able to afford to buy organic food. Perhaps there should be government awards or incentives to grow organic food to make it less expensive.

Last edited by rainbowbutterfly on 01 Jul 2009, 7:42 am, edited 1 time in total.

Organic farming is much harder to do, but a lot of food stores and restaraunts also get a lot of extra food that they just throw away in garbage cans. When I took a class in Peace Psychology, I read a statistic that stated that if every restaraunt were to donate around 2% of their food, it might be enough to take care of world hunger.

A healthy diet is a balanced diet, someone with a balanced non-organic diet, will be better off than someone with an un-balanced organic diet. Also there seems to be a belief that artificial substances are somehow bad, but the real truth is they are bad in large quantities, and they do not bioaccumulate, the body removes them over time. Pretty much everything that is healthy is bad in large quantities and as people have previously said in this thread, if the entire world were to eat organic food, we'd have even more people starving than there is now.

You're paying a huge premium on something that in most cases isn't any healthier and in some cases marginally healthier. You'd be better off spending this premium on other ways to be healthy, because they are more cost effective.

here is a small list of preservatives http://www.mbm.net.au/health/200-290.htm

This is an interesting web site Stevecam.

yes, be careful with your preservatives, only use as needed, as they have no nutritional benifit, and can have some weird side effects