If smug organic mob get their way millions families will never again be able to afford roastchicken

MailOnline ^ | 18:38 EST, 8 September 2012 | MARCO PIERRE WHITE

[fight_truth_decay]

for dinner.

Last week, researchers from Stanford University published the results of the most comprehensive study to date on organic and conventional foods. Their conclusion? Organic foods have no more vitamins and nutrients than traditionally grown produce. I can’t say I’m surprised. Chicken is chicken, with the same nutritional content, whether it is organic, free range or mass-produced. But now scientists have confirmed it, perhaps we can begin to have a proper conversation about the food we put on our table.

The Stanford University team reviewed more than 200 studies which compared either the health of those who ate organic and conventional foods, or, more commonly, nutrient and contaminant levels in the foods themselves.

[Repeat Offender]

I don't buy "organic" food because I think it is somehow magically better. I don't even care if it is "organic."

What I do want is actual food and not chemical compounds. So, I find myself reading labels and such. I don't have the land that I did previously to grow/produce my own food in the scale I used to be able to in the past. Sugar, water, and raspberries make a much better preserve than sugar, high fructose corn syrup, red number 5, TBHQ, BHT, sodium tripoisonate (Simpsons reference), and "artificial flavors."....but that's just me.

I can say that I was entirely against the "natural" and "organic" fad everyone seemed to be buying into and prided myself on my ability to eat crap.....the more unpronounceable ingredients the better. Then I decided I would try to buy actual food without all the ingredients (like I said, I don't care if it is "organic" just that it isn't better eating through chemistry.)

It was/is really frustrating trying to find food that didn't have all the extra stuff. (why does peanut butter need hydrogenated anything, or Ranch dressing need MSG?) Anyway, after about two to three weeks, I did notice I felt better and healthier overall. Now, if I eat stuff with a lot of the nonsense in it, it makes me sick. (McDonald's is the worst.

I've gotten to the point that I can find decent food that is the same, or near the same pric as foods I used to buy. But for things like beef, chicken, pork, and fresh produce? Who cares if it is "organic?" Or "fair trade?"

That said, my favorite is "free range" or "cage free" chicken/eggs. Chickens are some of the stupidest animals on earth. Their brain is smaller than your thumb.....they don't know the difference between a 2x2ft cage and a 100 acre farm. They get easily confused and return to the wrong nest (allowing their embryos to die) and if food is more than a dozen feet away while nesting, they will starve to death vice walking another foot or two.

[AuntB]

If you can’t read my posts for what they say and not what you fear, if you can’t wait for me to reply to your serial accusations that have NOTHING to do with what I wrote’

There seems to be plenty of that going around. You gave it your best shot!

[fight_truth_decay]

I eat natural as much as I can, know where my food comes from, buy local, tastes better when fresh, ...........but enjoy a McDonald’s burger once in a while, so have no shame in being a “repeat offender”. ;)