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The truth about organic produce and pesticides

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The truth about organic produce and pesticides

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Finally a no nonsense, no-spin presentation of facts about the organic industry and its claims. I recommend this book to anyone who is tired of hearing the hysteria and fear-mongering, and wants to have all the available information to make an informed decision about their food.

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This book gives a great synopsis of the organic foods movement. It succinctly informs the reader about the science behind organic foods and conventional food production.

The Truth About Organic Foods

Organic food is a choice, but it is no safer or healthier than conventionally produced food. Organic food is worse for the environment due to increased use of fossil fuels to produce it, and decreased land productivity when organic methods are used. This book brings up a lot of interesting points and counter-points to the media hype of Organic foods. They are not the answer for most of the population or the environment, and Avery does a good job showing that.

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You are what you eat, or so the adage goes. It is this idea that has helped the organic food industry grow into a multi-billion dollar a year. The Agriculture Department recently released the latest measurements of pesticide residues in our food, in the form of the Pesticide Data.

Avery also does an excellent job of doing what the organic movement has also mastered: His writing is peppered with these disguised sentences. His introduction about how he is unbiased is a JOKE; this borders on a polemic. I still enjoyed the book and because it's my area of research could dodge his opinion sentences and polemic flare. A good read for people who question the organic movement and don't want to buy into it lock, stock and barrel. Good book, took forever to get here though. One person found this helpful. A fatal injection of truth for self-righteous 'food fascists'.

Reading around the product review section, you'll notice a pattern amongst the detractors of this piece of literature: Looking around America, you don't see a lot of starving people. Folks here are privileged enough to decide whether we want to spend our hard earned money on food that's been genetically engineered to be larger and more disease resistant, or whether we want to go back to eating maize that's already been chewed on by insects. This book is about the organic food market, and how some not all, but many large scale corporate farmers have used the "organic" label to garner good publicity and faith.

It's also about the hypocrisy of organic farmers and their unchecked claims of "healthier food without pesticide" But, mostly, it's about the heavy costs of organics and just how incompatible it is with the food needs of our century, for although we in America may not remember how people used to starve and die And ironically, we don't see them complaining about how involved Monsanto was in making their food.

Avery clearly spells out the facts and statistics that have been absent in the "organic food" conversation for so long. These are the issues that must be weighed and considered when contemplating alternative agriculture methods. As one can clearly see throughout the ratings on Amazon, negative rating is almost exclusively driven by political bias and emotion; criticisms of the book rely on outright dismisal of Avery's data without providing a single rebuttal, rather resorting to personal attacks and cliche anti-isms common among the hipster organic movement.

Avery provides research and insight into a field of study often overlooked - overlooked out of ignorance or willingness, one can only assume. This book helps clear up the myths and misconceptions surrounding the whole organic movement. Not only are the health benefits practically non existent but the political implications are downright disastrous.

Most of your so-called health food organic "hippies" haven't got a clue why these industrial tools and techniques were developed in the first place. To do things their way is a huge step backwards, not forwards.

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However, the researchers did note the lack of long-term studies looking at health outcomes of people consuming organic vs. Organic food is a choice, but it is no safer or healthier than conventionally produced food. The tough outer shells of nuts generally protect the inner kernel from pests. The thick shell may explain why EWG found few pesticide residues among these fruits in their analysis. The Green Square Tavern prides itself on bringing food from the "farm to the table," and the food there is amazing.

And that's the whole point of this movement, cripple the conventional food producing industry. I could go on and on but I've had enough of the lies from everyday bandwagon organic Liberal Marxists.

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I'm not saying that you should be deprived of food prepared the way you want but stay the Hell away from our modern technology. This book comes highly recommended. A kindle version would ideal too. Avery is funded by big Worth noting that Mr. Avery is funded by big agri-business, so this book was surely written with special interest in mind. See all 21 reviews.

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So I started asking people, but nobody had a good explanation. Because organics are often grown in the proximity of their conventional brethren, drift happens. He reported that conventional foods had an average of 3. The real numbers, which I downloaded the entire residue database to get , are 3. This was an honest mistake, and when I pointed it out, Savage immediately checked for himself, confirmed the error and set about retracting the articles.

He told me he felt terrible for getting it wrong. When I make a mistake — and we all do — I find it to be just about the most humbling experience going. And, naturally, the mistakes we make tend to be in a direction that supports our worldview.

Savage is vociferously anti-organic he boycotts it and works as a consultant for the conventional sector , and perhaps that made it easier for him to believe what his bad data were telling him. Glyphosate, the most-used herbicide in conventional agriculture, is just beginning to be tested.

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The key question, of course, is whether that matters, and this is the crux of the disagreement over residue levels. There are two ways a mix of pesticides could be dangerous. The first is if they have synergistic effects — that is, the result of the two or more chemicals together is different and worse than the results of each individually. The second is cumulative, the long-term exposure of low doses over time. We should be more concerned with the cumulative effects, the paper concluded. The EPA does require testing for chronic exposure, and it takes into account the exposure we get to chemicals with similar modes of action, but it is, of course, impossible to test every combination.

She co- wrote a paper , published in January, that concluded that the cumulative risk to your average Danish adult from pesticide exposure was equal to that of drinking one glass of wine every three months.