Comments on: The Lowdown on Organic Food http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/04/30/the-lowdown-on-organic-foo/ Rescuing good health from bad science. Wed, 16 May 2012 12:50:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: VishKari http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/04/30/the-lowdown-on-organic-foo/#comment-22049 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:46:34 +0000 http://rawfoodsos.com/?p=175#comment-22049 I’m glad i found your site.

But reading this article has got me confused. Should I continue being Organic, or…..

]]> By: Mitzie Sibell http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/04/30/the-lowdown-on-organic-foo/#comment-19882 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:16:29 +0000 http://rawfoodsos.com/?p=175#comment-19882 What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas… Unless, of course, it turns out as good as this post! Bravo! Have a great day! :)

]]> By: teoroy http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/04/30/the-lowdown-on-organic-foo/#comment-15251 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:12:06 +0000 http://rawfoodsos.com/?p=175#comment-15251 I would love to hear her reply/

]]> By: edward http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/04/30/the-lowdown-on-organic-foo/#comment-12282 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:11:29 +0000 http://rawfoodsos.com/?p=175#comment-12282 Also organic pesticides do not harm and pollute the earth , i think thats a pretty good +

]]> By: edward http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/04/30/the-lowdown-on-organic-foo/#comment-12281 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:09:26 +0000 http://rawfoodsos.com/?p=175#comment-12281 when you say conventional does that include Genetically modified foods also, because if it does i highly disagree with that. frankenstein gene corn no thanks

]]> By: Michiko Strowe http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/04/30/the-lowdown-on-organic-foo/#comment-8442 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 05:22:12 +0000 http://rawfoodsos.com/?p=175#comment-8442 I have a blog with blogger. I have registered my blog using a gmail account. Now, I want to use a new gmail account and I wanted to import my whole blog along with the posts and comments to this new gmail id.. . Please tell me, is this possible and how can it be done?.

]]> By: Eric Thurston http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/04/30/the-lowdown-on-organic-foo/#comment-7855 Sun, 31 Jul 2011 05:43:16 +0000 http://rawfoodsos.com/?p=175#comment-7855 Denise,
RE raw foods, I recommend the book Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard W. Wrangham

The author makes a pretty good case for the hypothesis that pre-humans had the use of fire and that this had a significant role in human evolution. The gist of the argument is an argument that humans do best on cooked food because we evolved eating cooked food.

Anyway, thanks for the enlightening blog.

Eric

]]> By: Dana http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/04/30/the-lowdown-on-organic-foo/#comment-5934 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:54:40 +0000 http://rawfoodsos.com/?p=175#comment-5934 Oh and even if petroleum does come out of the ground, I tend to not think of it as natural *above ground* because that’s not where you find it in most areas of the world. The earth’s crust has to leak before it will come up. What’s “natural” to organisms on top of the earth’s crust tends to be things that come from on top of the earth’s crust. People like to play games with words here and I ain’t going along.

]]> By: Dana http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/04/30/the-lowdown-on-organic-foo/#comment-5933 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:53:17 +0000 http://rawfoodsos.com/?p=175#comment-5933 One advantage that organic pesticides (insect/herb/fungi) have over synthetic no matter how toxic either is, is that many of them are made from biological sources. In the long run they are what’s going to be used on produce because if the Peak Oil folks are right, petroleum will become too expensive for most applications over the next several decades. Might as well get used to natural controls now.

It’s going to suck trying to find good fungicides when we hit peak copper, but there are other ways to control fungus.

But at bottom people need to start thinking of food production as a biological process, not a mechanistic one. I think that will have the greatest influence over whether we can continue to look to plant foods as a source of nourishment rather than have them become a source of poison. There are more ways to control pests than by spraying them.

]]> By: Another Halocene Human http://rawfoodsos.com/2010/04/30/the-lowdown-on-organic-foo/#comment-5482 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:11:35 +0000 http://rawfoodsos.com/?p=175#comment-5482 Also, re: myth #2: some food crops attract some truly nasty fungi. You might be eating mycotoxins with your organic strawberries.

Soooo totally agree with myth #1. Worker treatment is very important to me, but few in the US seem to care. “Organic” is a loosely-defined term that ultimately rests on the “vital essence of soil” theory of biology (ie, a defunct one) and is hence meaningless. Sometimes organic methods are safer for the farmer. Sometimes conventional and organic methods are the same! Most farmers I know don’t want to die from huffing 3000x the safe level of pesticides and hate being beholden to Monsanto, too. In the US we have big, structural problems which are mostly about power, money, and politics. The little guys at the USDA were right to resist tacking a pointless “Organic” sticker on the same, old migrant slave labor picked produce grown on the same, old depleted soil. Btw, still waiting for proof of the nutritional superiority of organics … I hear crickets.

I also hear crickets are good eatin’.

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