Reply to Re: Why organic food is better for you. A bare-bones explanation.
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Organic food bought from a store isn't likely to be any more nutritious than chemical laden bananas. Produce loses vitamins the second it's cut from the host plant. It then sits on trucks for weeks, slowly losing vitamins over time. Upon reaching a store it's exposed to light, which destroys yet more vitamins. Lastly, most people cook their vegetables, and you guessed it, that obliterates vitamins.
It would be one thing to grow organically grown vegetables at your house so you could cut and steam them immediately, but you have no idea what you're getting nutritionally speaking at a store.
However, the plus side about organic foods is that their genetics haven't been modified and they aren't bathed in chemicals. As for meat products, you won't be getting any of the hormones of antibiotics that industrial meat producers pump into already sick animals in order to increase production.
Also, if we're concerned about being able to sustain our own food supply, we should cut back on industrial meat production before we stop growing organic produce, grains and beans. Meat production requires ENORMOUS amounts of grains, money, environmental cost and suffering of animals when you could be eating rice and beans for a complete protein.
If you have the money, buy organic. If you don't, don't lose any sleep over it.
Source: 2 years of vegetarianism and 2 months of veganism
Also, read the book Wheat Belly.
It would be one thing to grow organically grown vegetables at your house so you could cut and steam them immediately, but you have no idea what you're getting nutritionally speaking at a store.
However, the plus side about organic foods is that their genetics haven't been modified and they aren't bathed in chemicals. As for meat products, you won't be getting any of the hormones of antibiotics that industrial meat producers pump into already sick animals in order to increase production.
Also, if we're concerned about being able to sustain our own food supply, we should cut back on industrial meat production before we stop growing organic produce, grains and beans. Meat production requires ENORMOUS amounts of grains, money, environmental cost and suffering of animals when you could be eating rice and beans for a complete protein.
If you have the money, buy organic. If you don't, don't lose any sleep over it.
Source: 2 years of vegetarianism and 2 months of veganism
Also, read the book Wheat Belly.
