Is the organic food movement the most anti-science social movement out there?

[Drake Tungsten]

Whether the meat is "organic" or not has nothing to do with the flavor difference. It's all about grass-fed (or whatever the **** wild boars eat) vs grain fed.

[Ecofarm]

Haha.

When was the quote?

[ricketyclik]

You would think, huh. However, the pesticide I always like to bring up as an example is rotenone.

As an example of... bad organic, or organic industrial? Or something else?

[Drake Tungsten]

From the NYT, here's an article on people who think high-fructose corn syrup is worse for you than sugar, retarded fellow travelers of the organic food movement...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/business/02syrup.html

[Kuciwalker]

All I know is that all the soda w/sugar I've had has been yummier than the soda w/hfcs.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I eat organic stuff for the taste. :shrug:

Organic skim milk tastes far better than the non-organic kind for some reason.

[Drake Tungsten]

I'm willing to bet that the taste difference is due to differences in feed (grass vs. grain) and not any of the "organic" requirements.

[Kuciwalker]

This was funnier when I thought it was an xpost.

[Fake Boris]

I'm willing to bet that the taste difference is due to differences in feed (grass vs. grain) and not any of the "organic" requirements.

Pasture is usually a requirement for organic livestock.

[Ecofarm]

Organic livestock can only be fed certified organic food, have extensive minimal area per animal, no sub-theraputic antibiotics and no hormones. They are far healthier, of course they taste better.


Funny how fatties never know anything about diet or agriculture. They flock to the burbling cries of "there's nothing wrong with corn syrup and cheap hamburger is great!" Idiots.

Big fat fkn morons trying to tell everyone how diet and agriculture don't matter at all, and how the ecologic and personal health movement is a total scam. I love it.

[Drake Tungsten]

Pasture is usually a requirement for organic livestock.

It wasn't in the U.S. until February of this year. It's also a retarded extension of the term "organic", which is about limiting or excluding the use of synthetic materials in agricultural production and has **** all to do with whether you feed livestock grass or grain.

[Drake Tungsten]

According to the Organic Consumers Association, organic milk is produced without synthetic chemicals, hormones or antibiotics. However, there is no difference in terms of quality and safety between regular milk and organic milk, and studies have shown that both types of milk contain the same nutrients.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_milk

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Whether the meat is "organic" or not has nothing to do with the flavor difference. It's all about grass-fed (or whatever the **** wild boars eat) vs grain fed.

And that's the point, where meat is concerned. The "organic" label, as regulated by the Soil Association in Britain, isn't just about artificial additives, feed conditions, and forage space.

[Drake Tungsten]

The Soil Association in Britain's "organic" label is retarded, then. "Organic" actually does have a meaning. It's not a catch-all term for "agricultural production practices we like"...

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

"Organic" has several meanings.


As it's about replicating natural conditions more closely than simply focussing on additives in the fodder, I'd suggest it's a better label.