"Organic" vs "Conventional" food

[draggonlaady]

So, my standard statement: the term "organic" food pisses me off. By the very definition of the word, everything you eat had better be organic or you won't process it, you carbon-burner, you.

Anyway, study reported by the BBC found no significant differences in nutritional value between food crops raised using pesticides/fertilizers/etc and "organic" crops. This study did not, mind you, address potential differences in ecological impact between methods.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8174482.stm

Comments

[neogrammarian.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the transportation issue Really needs to be addressed. I like my fruits and veggies in December as well as anyone, but you'd think we were smart enough to work a balance.

Don't get me started on recycling. It just makes me cranky. My township finally "got" recycling, but the list is short and it means that a lot of plastic still gets tossed (and that's even of the recyclable stuff). I can't even haul it anywhere myself- nowhere in the area will take #5 plastic (which seems to be the most common food container plastic).

[draggonlaady.livejournal.com]

I've never seen a yogurt container that wasn't a 5...at least, not the individual serving type. and anymore, most of them are not even easily reuseable, because they haven't got lids.

'Round here, the closest place that takes any plastic but milk jugs is 45 miles away. The take 1 and 2, but only if it has a neck smaller than the body, so the open yogurt buckets, coffee cans, etc still aren't accepted.