Oh another great summary of the organic movement
http://athlete.io/1891/the-sins-of-organic/
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What’s The Point?
The point is that the health claims of the organic food industry are equivalent to the fertilizer used on organic farms: bull####, literally. Even arguments of sustained farming and environmental benefit don’t hold up. The real message that’s been lost in the onslaught of marketing and the hunt for higher profits is that you should buy your food locally—grown and raised as close to where you live as possible. Eating local protects the environment, while organic farming on the commercial scale that now exists doesn’t[21].
The organic food movement serves the interest of no one other than those producing supposedly organic food. Organic food still gets caked with pesticides—ones that the government has agreed to call organic[22-25], like rotenone, a known toxin that can causes Parkinson’s-like symptoms[26] and causes DNA damage in brain cells[27]. Even though the government banned it due to health concerns, we recently re-approved it for organic farming because of its power as a poison. Hell, if you’re going to poison the public, you might as well do it with a natural poison that you can use in as heavy of a dosage as you’d like because the government doesn’t monitor pesticide use for organic farms. (My thanks to Christie Wilcox and her article on ScientificAmerican.com for this tip-off.)
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