Organic food?

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

According to Wikipedia, there are no taste or health benefits to organic food. Agree?

[Silver]

I disagree. Healthy food can taste just as good and be just as beneficial as ordinary food.

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

I disagree. Healthy food can taste just as good and be just as beneficial as ordinary food.

We're talking about organic food, not necessarily healthy food. The claim by organic food pushers is that organic food is healthier than the food produced by giant mainstream farms with all their pesticides and GMOs. It seems to me that's not the case and organic food is another pseudoscience scam to con people to needlessly pay more money than they need to.

[Silver]

I am not disagreeing with the organic economical view, but does it necessarily mean the food is unhealthy?

Certainly, most things that claim to be the best are always the most expensive, but more things that are actually quite unhealthy are the least expensive.

[Jackalope]

According to Wikipedia, there are no taste or health benefits to organic food. Agree?

All else being equal, I'd agree, at least with respect to taste. All else is not always equal, though. "Hothouse" tomatoes, organic or not, taste like crap (and are indistinguishable) compared to heirloom tomatoes out of my yard. Ground beef - the organic grass fed Angus stuff is definitely tastier than the typical supermarket stuff, but not noticeably better than non-organic quality stuff from the butcher.

I do appreciate the organic produce (patricularly fruit) that isn't artificially colored or waxed to improve it's appearance so I can get a truer idea of it's quality and ripeness.

There may well be legitimate reasons to buy organic, but IMHO, taste is not one of them.

[Sejanus]

Huh, I thought all food was organic...

[Fidel_Castronaut]

There are no health benefits to organic food over and above the same food that is not classed as organic.

[Natachan]

Organic meat certainly is tastier. As to veggies, I can't taste any difference. There is an argument that organic farming for produce is essentially a wash in terms of environmental impact with traditional farming since more energy and land must be cultivated to get the same return.

[zebo-the-fat]

Are there any inorganic foods?

[The Grand Nudger]

According to Wikipedia, there are no taste or health benefits to organic food. Agree?

Organic is a marketing classification which refers to a specific soil management strategy. No more and no less. Studies have tried to find differences between "organics" and whatever else, but the best we can say is "inconclusive". Further, in the absence of this data there isn't even a conceptual framework offered for understanding how or why organic food would be tastier or healthier. All of this is ignoring that how tasty something is is a matter of opinion.

In short, it's ad copy...and of course it would be, since "organic" is ad copy. I'd love to hear how many dentists recommend it though. Call it morbid curiosity.