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Debunked: Ridiculous Study Claims Organic Same as Conventional
Anthony Gucciardi
Activist Post
The latest study to demonize foods free of GMO ingredients and mercury-containing high-fructose corn syrup ultimately once again fails to accurately address key aspects of the conventional verses organic debate and even falls short of properly addressing the limited scope of concerns it does attempt to analyze. You can see even from the comments on many of the mainstream reports that readers quickly saw through the eroneous ‘organic is the same as conventional’ headlines and began highlighting the many inaccuracies of the research.
As I outline in the video, the study completely fails to account for key factors such as the presence of GMOs, artificial sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose, mercury (such as that admittedly contained in high-fructose corn syrup), BPA, and much more. It also does not even properly address the two topics it seeks to address concerning the presence antibiotics and chemical residue. The researchers fail first of all to reveal the difference between the organic food and conventional food pesticides, and then go on to state that organic food actually does have lower pesticide levels.
They then state that it doesn’t matter that conventional foods have higher pesticide, herbicide, and insecticide levels because they don’t ‘exceed legal limits’. They then fail to mention that Roundup, Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide, has been linked to DNA damage, infertility, and over 29 other associated diseases. Yet they insist that there is no real difference. That is not even taking into consideration the thousands of other studies on pesticides and insecticides, such as the 3 pieces of mainstream peer-reviewed research linking pesticide exposure to lower IQ.
Apparently these factors don’t matter to the Stanford researchers, who utterly ignored them as they compiled their analysis that actually contradicts itself over and over again.
The report also admittedly states that organic foods have a drastically lower percentage chance of containing antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the kind that produces mutant superbugs that cannot be treated with antibiotics. The very same kind that have evaded all antibiotics and ‘super drugs’ and are virtually untreatable by mainstream medicine. A new strain of resistant tuberculosis known as the ‘white plague‘ has even started to spread that is the result of rampant antibiotic use across the globe.
Conventional farm animals are dosed up with these antibiotics to prevent them from dying as a result of the serious illnesses they come down with. The animals are stricken from both eating a poor diet often full of genetically modified grain as well as sitting stationary in a claustrophobic area for years. Around 30% of cows in the United States are also injected with Monsanto’s genetically modified synthetic hormone known as rBGH, which is banned in 27 countries worldwide. Apparently the fact that the genetically engineered rBGH uses molecules and DNA sequences that are the result of molecular cloning doesn’t matter to the Stanford researchers.
The list could go on and on. Overall, it seems quite apparent that the researchers really have no idea what the word ‘health’ entails. While even the very few aspects they examine seem to heavily favor organic food items, the hundreds of other essential factors are wildly overlooked in the report that does nothing but push back the general public’s notion of what true health is by about 30 years.
Explore More:
- Cost of Organic Food Verses Conventional | Paying for Health
- Simple Science Experiment Shows Why Organic is Better (Video)
- How to Know if Your Food is Conventional, Organic, or Genetically Modified
- Organic Farms Have Lower Levels of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
- Organic Tomatoes Contain More Nutrients, Antioxidants than Traditional
- 14 Foods to Buy Organic
This article first appeared at Natural Society, an excellent resource for health news and vaccine information.
2012-09-04 12:58:34
Source: http://www.activistpost.com/2012/09/debunked-ridiculous-study-claims.html
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Thanks for posting this. I heard this crapola on the “news” this morning and almost gagged. What big agra clone sponsored this “study”?
Agreed, this ‘STUDY’ was clearly the work of someone against Organic foods. The ignorance of surrounding factors (GMOs, pesticides) are mind boggling.
Society is so dumbed down they will look at this study as evidence there is no difference and we should keep on eating the mass-produced crap!
Like the article above mentions. What people fail to realize is the study was based around NUTRITION… ie. a pear is still a pear, an apple is still and apple. No matter how it was produced it will still have the same basic nutritional value!! What they conveniently left out was the fact Organics are not sprayed with gallons of pesticides or genetically altered to grow faster and bigger! Those are the areas studies should be focusing on to figure out the effects of those things on humans.
Oh wait… those studies have already been conducted, and found evidence to show damaging effects. But of course you won’t hear about them blasted on EVERY mainstream news outlet.
Organic is much better. For a start chemical fertilized crops grow much faster which means they haven’t had time to absorb and create anywhere near the amount of vitamis and minerals as slower growing manure fed crops. Also manure replaces lost soil from arable farm land, lost from errosion. In fact if you don’t put manure back you would create a baren rocky wasteland within a decade or two. Arable mono farming is a short sighted practice as well.
Organic husbandry means you don’t dose your animals with medication until they actually need it. It comes at a price though because every animal has to be tested for worms and parasites before being treated. It costs far more than just treating them all as a prevention. But you can’t have it both ways. You either want expensive wholesome food or you want cheap junk food, make you’re minds up.