To be Organic or not to be Organic, Why ask the question?

By Sterling Burnett

For many years, environmentalists – many of whom seem to hate the very synthetic chemicals that make modern society, high standards of living and the modern “environmental chic” lifestyle possible – have teamed with a small but growing sub-segment of farmers to push for policies that treat ‘organic’ agricultural products as if they were special.

The term organic is amorphous but in general for most people for crops it means free of synthetic pesticides, fertilizer and (recently) bioengineering. For livestock it means free of the hormones, anti-biotics and (for some) that the animals are fed only organic crops or natural feed (grass, weeds, etc, untouched by fertilizers and pesticides…… Before that the British Food Journal produced many similar studies. Ultimately, Stanford’s study found that there is no appreciable health benefit from consuming organic foods when compared to conventionally grown crops. One thing’s for sure, if you are spending more money on food than you have to to obtain equal health benefits, you have less money to spend on other goods and services that than really improve your health.  No surprise here!  To Read the Entire Article…….