11-16 FB Organic Nix

 Dr. Dena Bravata, a senior research affiliate at Stanford University, released a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine indicating organic food is no better than regular food. While Bravata found slightly elevated nutrient levels in some organic foods – along with slightly lowered exposure in children to pesticides – the overall study does not support claims made by organic activists that organic food is always much more nutritious, purer, and hence safer, than conventional and biotech food.

The Heartland Institute, is a 28-year-old national nonprofit organization headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. They claim that their mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. 

Here is Heartland Policy Advisor Mischa Popoff a former organic farmer:  “Organic crops are not tested before they are certified. Sadly, domestic organic farmers fill only a small and ever-shrinking minority share of the $30-billion-per-annum market for organic food in the United States. The rest is imported from countries with notoriously lax environmental standards, such as China, Mexico, and Brazil. And that food always, believe it or not, comes with the USDA’s good name on the label. And it’s all based on paperwork, without a single test to verify purity or nutritional value.”

If it is not tested, how do we know it’s organically grown?