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A sensationalist title with no links to any studies cited. Why the misinformation? Are we, the readers, expected to be so ignorant to think that foods grown in

A sensationalist title with no links to any studies cited. Why the misinformation? Are we, the readers, expected to be so ignorant to think that foods grown in our gardens are equal (in health) to those found at our local fast food restaurant? No mention of the relationship between genetically modified foods, artificial sweeteners, organic food, oxygen, etc to disease. Another failure of the fourth-estate to inform the public. #FAIL

ribs 12y ago
I find the evidence for your claims to be lacking. GM foods? Are you kidding me? There's no evidence that GM foods are bad for your health. Perhaps some evidence will turn up. (It's possible; I doubt it will happen.) But there is none. And organic foods? Come on, you're thinking like some ancient Greek who took Aristotelean "essential natures" seriously. Like you're going to paste bird feathers on your flying machine because birds fly so surely the feathers will help.
- justsomeguynpdx 12y ago
  There's quite a bit of evidence that organic foods have higher levels of antioxidants. (This is not a first source, but it references quite a few) http://www.altmedrev.com/publications/15/1/4.pdf http://www.altmedrev.com/publications/15/1/4.pdf "Organic strawberries had significantly higher total antioxidant activity (8.5% more), ascorbic acid (9.7% more), and total phenolics (10.5% more) than conventional berries (Table 2), but significantly less phosphorus (13.6% less) and potassium (9.1% less) (Table 1)." Organically managed surface soils also supported significantly greater microbial biomass (159.4% more), microbial carbon as a percent of total carbon (66.2% greater), readily mineralizable carbon (25.5% more), and microbial carbon to mineralizable carbon ratio (86.0% greater) (Table 6). These indicate larger pools of total, labile, and microbial biomass C and a higher proportion of soil total and labile C as microbial biomass. All measures of microbial activity were significantly greater in the organically farmed soils, including microbial respiration (33.3% more), dehydrogenase (112.3% more), acid phosphatase (98.9% more), and alkaline phosphatase (121.5% more). The organically farmed soils had a significantly lower qCO2 metabolic quotient, indicating that the microbial biomass in the organically farmed soils was 94.7% more efficient or under less stress than in the conventionally farmed soils [40]. These same differences, except for qCO2, alkaline phosphatase, iron, boron, and sodium, were also observed in soils from the bottom of the mounds (20–30 cm depth). http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0012346 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna... Glyphosate, used with GM soy, adversely affects good gut bacteria in poultry at levels of 5ppm while bad bacteria are highly resistant to it. http://www.netwerkvlv.nl/downloads/2012-Krueger,%20M-glyphosate%20effects.pdf#lTab2 http://www.netwerkvlv.nl/downloads/2012-Krueger,%20M-glyphos...
- relampago 12y ago
  I'm just pointing out that none of these topics can be or were addressed head on by the author. He instead chose to infer by generalization that food is food, with no supporting documentation just a tactically written "scientific" opinion piece. For evidence look into the work of Jeffrey Smith. Here's just a 2min clip of some of what you seek, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvopGRiPHdE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvopGRiPHdE. Also check out Joel Salatin. Best of luck on your journey.

ribs 12y ago

I find the evidence for your claims to be lacking. GM foods? Are you kidding me? There's no evidence that GM foods are bad for your health. Perhaps some evidence will turn up. (It's possible; I doubt it will happen.) But there is none. And organic foods? Come on, you're thinking like some ancient Greek who took Aristotelean "essential natures" seriously. Like you're going to paste bird feathers on your flying machine because birds fly so surely the feathers will help.

justsomeguynpdx 12y ago
There's quite a bit of evidence that organic foods have higher levels of antioxidants. (This is not a first source, but it references quite a few) http://www.altmedrev.com/publications/15/1/4.pdf http://www.altmedrev.com/publications/15/1/4.pdf "Organic strawberries had significantly higher total antioxidant activity (8.5% more), ascorbic acid (9.7% more), and total phenolics (10.5% more) than conventional berries (Table 2), but significantly less phosphorus (13.6% less) and potassium (9.1% less) (Table 1)." Organically managed surface soils also supported significantly greater microbial biomass (159.4% more), microbial carbon as a percent of total carbon (66.2% greater), readily mineralizable carbon (25.5% more), and microbial carbon to mineralizable carbon ratio (86.0% greater) (Table 6). These indicate larger pools of total, labile, and microbial biomass C and a higher proportion of soil total and labile C as microbial biomass. All measures of microbial activity were significantly greater in the organically farmed soils, including microbial respiration (33.3% more), dehydrogenase (112.3% more), acid phosphatase (98.9% more), and alkaline phosphatase (121.5% more). The organically farmed soils had a significantly lower qCO2 metabolic quotient, indicating that the microbial biomass in the organically farmed soils was 94.7% more efficient or under less stress than in the conventionally farmed soils [40]. These same differences, except for qCO2, alkaline phosphatase, iron, boron, and sodium, were also observed in soils from the bottom of the mounds (20–30 cm depth). http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0012346 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna... Glyphosate, used with GM soy, adversely affects good gut bacteria in poultry at levels of 5ppm while bad bacteria are highly resistant to it. http://www.netwerkvlv.nl/downloads/2012-Krueger,%20M-glyphosate%20effects.pdf#lTab2 http://www.netwerkvlv.nl/downloads/2012-Krueger,%20M-glyphos...
relampago 12y ago
I'm just pointing out that none of these topics can be or were addressed head on by the author. He instead chose to infer by generalization that food is food, with no supporting documentation just a tactically written "scientific" opinion piece. For evidence look into the work of Jeffrey Smith. Here's just a 2min clip of some of what you seek, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvopGRiPHdE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvopGRiPHdE. Also check out Joel Salatin. Best of luck on your journey.