Claims of nutritional superiority of organic milk, meat challenged by scientists

Andrew Porterfield and Entine | February 16, 2016 | Genetic Literacy Project                

 

Are organic foods nutritionally better for you?  That’s the claim made in two meta-studies, on organic meat and milk, published in the British Journal of Nutrition on February 16. Newcastle University professor of ecological agriculture Carlo Leifert supervised the analysis of 196 papers on milk and 67 on meat, claiming to find clear differences in terms of fatty acid composition, and concentrations of certain essential minerals and antioxidants that led them to conclude that organic milk and meat were healthier food choices.

 

Among the key claimed findings, some positive towards conventional foods:.....

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