UK Food Agency Claims Organic Food Has No Health Benefits
The Times online gives the rundown here. Here's the summary of their conclusions:
I'm so flabbergasted by this I'm not quite sure where
to start. The study doesn't take into account pesticides and chemicals
present in and on the foods. Isn't that the greatest health benefit to
eating organic? The study doesn't take into consideration industrial
agricultural practices that degrade the land, the soil and the
atmosphere. Might those factors play into a consumer's health? Most of
all the study takes the definition of nutrition and breaks it down into
it's chemical components and even more it breaks the individual down
into an isolated component, as if the interaction of individuals
doesn't play into a persons health.
One of the mysteries of agriculture, food and soil is that when we spray pesticides and herbicides we destroy not just the things we want to destroy, we kill off innumerable other micro-organisms and bacteria that go into producing. Thousands of living organisms in the soil becomes 3 or 4. There is more to growing food than NPK. I'm a bit out of my expertise on organics so anyone else with more insight please chime in.
