From the article; "Eating organic fruits and vegetables can lower exposure to pesticides, including for children -- but the amount measured from conventionally grown produce was within safety limits, the researchers reported Monday.}}}I wonder about those 'safety limits' and about things not tested for that may come from below USP grade petro-chemical fertilizers{{{ Nor did the organic foods prove more nutritious.(???)}}}then why have I read numerous articles for years, that factory farmed food contains less nutritional value that it did back in the late 1970s{{{ Her team did find a notable(!!!) difference with antibiotic-resistant germs, a public health concern because they are harder to treat if they cause food poisoning. Specialists long have said that organic or not, the chances of bacterial contamination of food are the same, and Monday's analysis agreed. >>But when bacteria did lurk in chicken or pork, >>germs in the non-organic meats had a 33 percent higher risk of being resistant to multiple antibiotics<<<, the researchers reported Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. That finding comes amid debate over feeding animals antibiotics, not because they're sick but to fatten them up. Farmers say it's necessary to meet demand for cheap meat(because of overpopulation's demands). Public health advocates say it's one contributor to the nation's growing problem with increasingly hard-to-treat germs. Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, counted 24 outbreaks linked to multidrug-resistant germs in food between 2000 and 2010.
The government has begun steps to curb the nonmedical use of antibiotics on the farm.
Organic foods account for 4.2 percent of retail food sales, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It certifies products as organic if they meet certain requirements including being produced without synthetic pesticides or fertilizers, or routine use of antibiotics or growth hormones.
Consumers can pay a lot more for some organic products but demand is rising: Organic foods accounted for $31.4 billion sales last year, according to a recent administration report. That's up from $3.6 billion in 1997.
The Stanford team combed through thousands of studies to analyze the 237 that most rigorously compared organic and conventional foods. Bravata was dismayed that just 17 compared how people fared eating either diet while the rest investigated properties of the foods themselves.
>>Organic produce had a 30 percent lower risk of containing detectable pesticide levels.<<"
I say, everyone build Earthships and grow your own!!! I just wash the City Market stuff good and cook the meat well. I do not buy fish or other food from known contaminated sources like SE Asia.
_________________ "With every decision, think seven generations ahead of the consequences of your actions" Ute rule of life. “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children”― Chief Seattle “Those Who Have the Privilege to Know Have the Duty to Act”…Albert Einstein
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