Originally Posted by
squeeler
A lot of this thread has turned into an admirable tirade against the original ironic (I hope) OP's premise. However, please do not peddle the myth that organic is anything but a marketing con. If you want to eat food from field where fertiliser is animal sh*t, where food animals are untreated when they are ill, and where the health standards are much lower (e.g. milk) then go ahead. But do not try telling people that organic is better. Sorry.
If you are suggesting that eating pesticides and sythentic hormones/drugs and added sodium/sugar are better than eatings foods without it, go right ahead, but let's not pretend that makes any sense.
Nobody is suggesting organic is absolutely safe, but it is most certainly prudent to eat food as it comes out of the ground in the form we evolved to eat it than it is to eat food that has been maximized, strechted and modified for mass consumtion by companies that don't give a crap how healthy it is, regulated by toothless federal agencies lead by peolple who used to work for those companies.
You might as well suggest heroin is just as safe as marijuana.