AI bet if I went out and asked 10 different people about organic food right now, I’d get a similar answer from most of them – “It’s a bit more expensive, but it’s much better for you, right?”
Unfortunately that only tells a tiny fraction of the story, and it’s perhaps not even true.
Whether or not you’ve jumped on the organic food bandwagon, you need to know these shocking truths about what organic food is and does…
I don’t mean to scare you. All I want to do is make sure you’re properly educated on all things related to your health so that you can make the best decisions for this vital aspect of your life.
And because it would seem there’s a big gap when it comes to telling the whole story about organic foods as far as the general public are concerned, here are the shocking facts you need to know:
1) Organic food is NOT more nutritious than its counterpart…
You can hop online and find study after study revealing that there’s no true nutritional advantage to eating organic foods. Instead, it’s really all about the shelf life in most cases. Even an organic vegetable can lose half of its nutritional value if it’s been in the grocery store for a week.
2) Organic food is NOT cleaner…
Despite the common belief that organic food is always healthier AND cleaner, that’s simply not true. Organic foods need to be washed just as vigorously as high-yield farmed vegetables because both kinds are at risk of containing E.coli bacteria.
3) Organic farming has a negative impact on wildlife, too…
Yes, it’s true that organic farming doesn’t use pesticides and herbicides, and therefor it does NOT hurt the soil or wildlife in that respect. However, organic farming actually needs much more land than high-yield farming. Note that modern farming is actually responsible for saving roughly 15 million square miles of wildlife habitat.
4) Other Quickfacts about organic foods…
– Many have said that organic foods could save the world from hunger. In reality, the massive amount of space needed to adopt organic food globally (roughly 10 million square miles of forest would need to be cut down) would mean there would actually be less food, and organic foods cost 3 times more…
– Organic farming uses fungicides, and there are 20 US Organic Standards-approved chemicals used in organic food production.
– Organic food inspection isn’t always top notch. As with most things in life, the organic food certification process has different levels of rigor applied by different certifiers. And because some certifiers are less expensive to hire, they continue to get used in the inspection process.
So next time you find yourself pondering whether or not organic food and farming is the way to go, make sure you’re armed with all the facts.
