News of the latest Stanford study published in Annals of Internal Medicine says that the published literature lacks strong evidence that organic foods are significantly more nutritious than conventional foods. Consumption of organic foods may reduce exposure to pesticide residues and antibiotic-resistant bacteria. A message for me, the "non- scientist" that was not so much about what
The fact is, organic food has become a wildly lucrative business for Big Food and a premium-price-means-premium-profit section of the grocery store. The industry’s image — contented cows grazing on the green hills of family-owned farms — is mostly pure fantasy. Or rather, pure marketing. Big Food, it turns out, has spawned what might
Sandy Lerner in a recent blog, speaks to food conglomerates protecting their assets and to the price we all pay including among other things increased rates of human disease, from allergies to cancer. Read Sandy Lerner's June 29, 2012 post What Price? Here in the Ayrshire Farm Journal.