Do you Believe Organic Food is healthier and tastes better???

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  1. ryobi

    ryobi Well-Known Member

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    Do you believe Organic Food is healthier, tastes better, and is more nutritious than conventional food???
     
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    perdidochas Well-Known Member

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    Sometimes it is, sometimes it's not. I do believe that organic produce usually doesn't look as good as conventional produce (but is often tastier).
     
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    Swensson Devil's advocate

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    I don't believe it tastes better, but people tend to think it does (there was a funny clip with someone dividing a banana and telling people one end was organic, the other not). I'm not one to dismiss such placebo-like effects, but the word organic doesn't mean very much on its own any more.
     
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    It's incidental. In the true meaning of the word, even if you hunt or fish your own game, it has been subjected to pollutants. GMOs have been used for years, just not in the lab. Organic foods
     
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    In addition, more food borne diseases are transmitted by organic produce than all the other standard AND GMO produce. It took me 2 months to totally get over an ecoli infection gotten from organic salad. (well washed and prepared) The bacteria resides INSIDE FOOD which has any amount of moisture inside the produce itself.
     
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    its not the organic part. Industrially produced food just doesn't taste as good. A vine ripened tomatoe, organically grown or not, will taste better than a tomato picked green and subsequently ripened with ethylene gas.
     
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    No, but I do believe locally grow produce usually is healthier, tastes better, and is more nutritious than highly transported produce.
     
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    greatdanechick Well-Known Member

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    Yes, anything without pesticides, herbicides or growth hormones is healthier.


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    Deckel Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I think home-grown food tastes better. Whether or not you grow organically probably doesn't make much difference. Organic food is not necessarily healthier though depending on how you measure that. Is more calories more healthy or less healthy; are more minerals more healthy or less healthy, etc.
     
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    Doofenshmirtz Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I believe that it is healthier because pesticides cannot tell the difference between a pest and a human.

    As far as taste, I was able to tell the difference in tomatoes and cucumbers, but not in bananas or broccoli. When it comes to good scotch, I can always tell the difference.
     

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