RE: Organic food?
July 8, 2014 at 12:43 pm
(This post was last modified: July 8, 2014 at 12:50 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Long term studies -have- been undertaken (and continue to this day), none of the risks that were predicted (stretching all the way back to the 50's but picking up pace in the 70's) have materialized - and we understand why this is the case. Other risk factors have presented themselves - and we understand these as well. The pesticide in the corn isn't going to kill you, it won't even make you sick, because it isn't stable enough to reach your table when properly applied - and this is by design. On the other hand, eating all that damned corn probably will kill you, tubby tubby.
Obvs, the last bit isn't aimed at you, but us in the general.
We're more careful now than we ever have been about our food, and we're more capable of being so. This is an argument from ignorance - against the consumption of food-...and frankly..that's disturbing. The comparison to smoking doesn't really apply because it's not as though we weren't aware, and for solid reasons, long before anyone felt like running a test - that smokes were "coffin nails". Similarly, I know better than to slam down a 40 of agricultural pesticides, but no ones asking you to do that and you certainly aren't doing so by putting a tomato in your mouth. All crops are exposed to toxins, most produce their own. Ironically, the group of food that falls to the usda axe most often with regards to toxins and contamination - is the organic subest, for reasons mentioned a few posts back.
Obvs, the last bit isn't aimed at you, but us in the general.
We're more careful now than we ever have been about our food, and we're more capable of being so. This is an argument from ignorance - against the consumption of food-...and frankly..that's disturbing. The comparison to smoking doesn't really apply because it's not as though we weren't aware, and for solid reasons, long before anyone felt like running a test - that smokes were "coffin nails". Similarly, I know better than to slam down a 40 of agricultural pesticides, but no ones asking you to do that and you certainly aren't doing so by putting a tomato in your mouth. All crops are exposed to toxins, most produce their own. Ironically, the group of food that falls to the usda axe most often with regards to toxins and contamination - is the organic subest, for reasons mentioned a few posts back.
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