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Originally Posted by Azure
I don't think its fair to say that organic food should outperform standard produce in terms of quality and value. Especially value.
Quality is debatable. Are you looking for taste? Because its very easy to use chemical enhancers to improve taste.
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What chemical enhancers are these?
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Why do people prefer to grown their own vegetables? Simple. Because the nutritional value is higher as far as vitamins and minerals are concerned.
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Well, who knows really.
See, the problem is that you don't understand food production at all.
There are different cultivars of vegetables and fruits. Any difference you taste, smell and see are almost always from the usage of different cultivars, as opposed to growing things in poop.
For instance, almost all (orange) carrots you can buy in a store are of a cultivar called 'Imperator'. This cultivar is favoured because it ships very well (it doesn't break). It tastes terrible, however. I usually grow a variety called 'Nantes', because they have great flavour but they do not ship well at all, sometimes even breaking from the garden to the kitchen.
If you want to compare apples to apples, then make sure you compare the same cultivar.
And, as been said before, organic food lobbyists has never been to prove that organic food is more nutritious.