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Originally Posted by MaDMaN_26
Great read... lots of back and forth... really for me as a lurker in this thread it has been very enlightening. I'll admit I was harboring some of the misconceptions and propaganda that’s out there as part of my belief system.
At one point this thread made fun of Organic buying consumers as though they were rich fools or simply buying into marketing nonsense, and perhaps they were not doing it for the correct reasons... ... Whatever my reason for buying organic when possible was, it seems that although there is no science to claim GMO products cause humans direct harm and that the jury is out or the debate still goes on about GMO vs. non GMO product being better for the environment or sustainable farming that buying organic is probably the friendliest thing I can do for the good of the environment and sustainable farming... at least that was my take away. Along with I don't think I'll worry about avoiding GMO foods much anymore.
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I don't know about Organic being the most friendliest to the environment. Maybe just on the pesticide level it is but the production of organic food is just as industrialized as the production of Non-Organic food. Its back to that fundemental problem with Organic is that people tend to believe it means fresh produce grown on a small scale without chemicals instead of just being grown without chemicals.
I really thought the Omivores Dilemma and In Defense of Food by Micheal Pollen handled the food choice process quite well and went beyond labels of Organic and Free Range.