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Is this true about Organic Food?

I just read in an article that said organic food might actually be bad for the world instead of good. The article stated that its not even healthier than regular (might actually even be worse) and that it is one of the big reasons for global warming. Since organic foods use manure to grow then they releases a lot of carbon from that manure and their Fields are smaller than pesticide fields so they absorb less carbon from the atmosphere.

There is a big debate about whether or not organic is better. In some ways it is: not using pesticides, for example, reduces pollution of rivers and streams with phosphorous and nitrogen which causes eutrophication. Manure however can cause this same problem if it’s spread before rainfall.

It certainly is not healthier for you: this is a complete myth and pseudoscientific. Why would it be healthier? Healthiness depends on the nutrients absorbed. Although conventional farmers can use poorer soil than organic farmers, they supplement it with inorganic fertilizers which provide nutrients for the plants. It may not taste as good but it’s just as healthy.

Global warming is not being caused by organic farmers. It is being caused by chopping down huge areas of rainforest and replacing it with palm oil plantations for biofuels; it is being caused by pollution from burning fuel; it is caused by 6.5 billion people breathing and polluting the air. A bunch of cow poo on a field isn’t going to even scratch the surface (although cow manure, burps and farts are a big problem – but if you’re against that, stop eating beef and drinking milk).

The one beef I have against organic farming (apart from the price of the products and the culture they are associated with) is that it wastes land – we are pushed for space on this earth to produce enough food to feed the growing disease that is the human race. Using a field to grow less food than the optimum amount may be a romantic ideal and a nice hobby but it doesn’t help the fact that we are in the middle of a crisis – we are overbeeding and underfeeding and if this carries on there could be a huge population crash. We are able to produce enough food to feed the 8.3 billion people expected in the next quarter of a century using technology such as genetic modification and selective breeding, but the way things are going we may be too busy farming organically to keep the greenies happy.

Having said that, I think that it is very sad that we have to give up farming ecologically without the use of pesticides, just because we can’t stop breeding. In an ideal world, it would be nice to cut the human population right down so we are able to care for our environment. But this is impractical and unlikely to happen, so to avoid mass suffering we just have to try and feed the billions.

Serenade[R] Biofungicide Approved For Organic.(Brief Article): An article from: Wines & Vines $5.95 This digital document is an article from Wines & Vines, published by Hiaring Company on June 1, 2001. The length of the article is 426 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation DetailsTitle: Serenade[R] Bi…

Organic foods may not be more nutritious: however, additional studies are needed, and buying organic makes sense if you are concerned about pesticides.: An article from: Healthy Years $9.95 This digital document is an article from Healthy Years, published by Belvoir Media Group, LLC on October 1, 2009. The length of the article is 532 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation DetailsTitle: Organic foods may not be more nutrit…

Organic produce found to be higher in health-promoting compounds. (Environmental Intelligence).(higher concentrations of antioxidants than in crops … pesticides ): An article from: World Watch $5.95 This digital document is an article from World Watch, published by Worldwatch Institute on July 1, 2003. The length of the article is 803 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation DetailsTitle: Organic pro…

The Organic Food Handbook : A Consumer’s Guide To Buying And Eating Organic Food $4.99 More and more people are eating organic food. Once derided as a hippie fad today organic is the fastest growing segment of the United States food industry with consumer demand increasing by nearly 20 percent each year. No longer confined to natural food stores organic food is now on supermarket shelves served in restaurants and fast food chains and even sold at national parks and major league baseball stadiums. Many schools and colleges such as Yale and Stanford now serve organic food to their students. People are choosing organic because they want a healthier and safer alternative to ”conventional”food with its use of toxic pesticides antibiotics hormones and genetic engineering. The Organic Food Handbook examines this important trend and provides a concise simple guide to eating and buying organic food.