Organic Foods

Don't believe everything you read

The media recently covered a UK report about organic foods with the headline “Organic has no health benefits.” This is an example of the irresponsible journalism that abounds with regard to science in general and the food industry in particular. If you read the article, you will find that this headline in no way represents the information in the article.

First, the studies only considered the “nutrition” of organically grown items and “did not look at the use of pesticides or the environmental impact of different farming practices.”

Second, the report has been criticized by other scientists as needing “better research.”

Third, only 55 studies of 162 were included. (What did the other 107 studies conclude?)

The problem is that many people will only read the headline and miss the real information in the article. Even if you accept the premise of the report, that organic foods are nutritionally the same as conventionally produced foods, there is the larger issue of pesticides, hormones and cruel and unsafe farming practices that motivate people to buy organic.

Spreading the inaccuracies around

To make matters worse, a number of pundits on the airwaves picked up the headline and ran with it, regaling their listeners with a diatribe against the concept of organically produced foods. These are the same people that look on so-called “global warming” as “junk science.” So, if we agree with the issue, it’s based on “real science,” and if we don’t agree, it’s “junk science?” We are better than that!

Eat and be healthy with my best regards,






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