Billy - organic vs non-organic info needed

 Billy

Can you help me out. You have previously posted info about the nutritional
value of various crops grown organically & argo-farmingly. Are you able to
provide some urls to that information?

thanks.

rob

 

 Here is a start.

  Bill

<http://www.organicauthority.com/organic-food/organic-food-articles/decli
ning-nutritional-value-of-produce-due-to-high-yield-selective-seed-breedi
ng.html>

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Bill always seems to do this more elegantly than I do. He is the carrot
to my stick I'm afraid. Thanks Bill ;O)

In the above article it states: "An amazing two-thirds (2/3) of American
calories, on average come from depleted, man-made sources such as
purified sugars, added fats and oils, white flour, white rice, and
distilled liquor,² Davis said. ³All of these items have suffered much
deeper and broader nutrient losses than the nutrient declines we and
others report in vegetables and fruits.²

Processed foods are produced from our subsidized commodity crops, i.e.
corn, soy beans, and wheat. These commodity crops produce 150% of the
needed caloric intake for each man, woman, and child in the United
States. What do we do with it? In 2004, the food, beverage, candy, and
restaurant advertising expenditures weighed in at $11.26 billion, versus
$9.55 million to promote healthful eating. Remember that these foods are
mostly highly processed white flour, soy bean oil, and corn syrup. If
they put any nutrients back in to the product, it is called "enriched".

If we had single-payer national health care, there would be pressure on
the U.S. Farm Bill to promote healthier foods, and reduce the toxics in
our environment in order to lower health costs. Mandating health care
just makes the insurance companies rich. We need universal, single
payer, health care. Just like Congress has. Just like the President has.
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- Billy
"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being
is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the
moment of conception until death."  - Rachel Carson



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eh, thats the stuff I was looking for. Thanks Bill and co.

rob

 

For the most part, I have been reflecting what I've read from Michal
Pollans two books

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
(Amazon.com product link shortened)
83/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid06815576&sr=1-1

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
by Michael Pollan
(Amazon.com product link shortened)
1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid38974366&sr=1-1

and most recently Dr. Joe Schwarcz from articles that he sent to us.
If you didn't read those here, email me at wildbilly37@yahoo.com and
I'll send them to you. Dr. Joe isn't a supporter of organic farming
because (he claims) that it can't feed our over populated world (and
soon no type of farming will be able to). But that is another story that
explores crop rotation, cover crops, eating seasonal produce, closing
CAFOs, U.S. Farm Subsidy Programs, and not using crop land to grow
ethanol.

I "googled": nutritional comparison of fruits and vegetables, organic
and non-organic; and this, in part, is what I got.

http://www.ioia.net/images/pdf/orgvalue.pdf

http://www.ota.com/organic/benefits/nutrition.html

http://www.actahort.org/members/showpdf?booknrarnra4_100

http://www.twnside.org.sg/title2/susagri/susagri018.htm

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11327522

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/86972.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_food#cite_note-53

http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article 49&context=uc
labiolchem/nutritionnoteworthy

Good reading.
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- Billy
"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being
is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the
moment of conception until death."  - Rachel Carson



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