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hemanthks

Canada
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Posted - May 01 2012 :  10:43:15 PM  Show Profile  Visit hemanthks's Homepage  Reply with Quote  Get a Link to this Message
Namaste:

Is organic food more nutritious? I thought so until I read this article which says otherwise.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/release...07082954.htm

Have anyone tried natural farming food products?

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Hemanth

Will Power

Spain
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Posted - May 02 2012 :  05:59:32 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote  Get a Link to this Reply
I don't know.
My concern is not that it's more nutritious, but that it has less chemicals not good for the body. But organic food is so costly...
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Etherfish

USA
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Posted - May 02 2012 :  10:38:47 PM  Show Profile  Visit Etherfish's Homepage  Reply with Quote  Get a Link to this Reply
That article is written by the "Society of Chemical Industry". Organic methods are their enemies!
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HathaTeacher

Sweden
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Posted - May 08 2012 :  12:00:01 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote  Get a Link to this Reply
quote:
Originally posted by Etherfish

by the "Society of Chemical Industry".



Plus it's a few years old...
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Etherfish

USA
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Posted - May 08 2012 :  7:57:25 PM  Show Profile  Visit Etherfish's Homepage  Reply with Quote  Get a Link to this Reply
What is usually missed by big corporate agriculture is nature's strength in diversity. Fertilizer chemists will tell you that plants need nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus. So they formulate fertilizer with one nitrogen chemical, one potassium chemical, etc. But if you analyze the chemicals that contain nitrogen in compost, there are maybe fifty. Plants use each one in a slightly different way, and are stronger because of the diversity of chemicals.
For instance, commercial table salt contains NaCl; sodium and chlorine.
But if you analyze sea salt there are maybe 35 different chemicals. This gives your body a lot more to work with.
So if those same big agra chemists analyze an organic plant or soil, they will measure the level of nitrogen and be done with the nitrogen analysis, and say it has the same as chemical fertilized plants. But there is so much more to it; not only different permutations of each nitrogen compound, but also micro nutrients that are only now being understood, bacteria symbiosis, micro fungae etc. They tend to reject what they don't understand.
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HathaTeacher

Sweden
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Posted - May 14 2012 :  12:00:17 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote  Get a Link to this Reply
Some studies also indicate many more species living on organic fields (like 14 times more kinds of butterflies, compared to "conventional" farming ).
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