Organic Food (Yahoo Answers 2007)
November 6, 2009
Notes by host J. Keith van Straaten
*On the streets, we talked to dozens of people from all over the world. I don’t think we found a single person who said organic food wasn’t a better way to go.
*The very crafty Jules Dervaes runs the Path To Freedom Urban Homestead with his family. They’ve created a genuine farm on their plain ol’ city lot in Pasadena. They were gracious hosts to us for our shoot. And they didn’t give us a hard time for misspelling their family name in the video.
*Christine Bybee is indeed a certified nutritionist –and a nutritionist to the stars! The Rutgers University study she cites is actually still a topic of debate in the nutrition community. Judge for yourself.
*Anna Getty has already judged and is definitely pro-organic! She’s a spokesperson for The Organic Center and understandably I felt a little uncomfortable taking a Big Bite of hot dog in front of her. No worries; I more than made up for it a few weeks later.
*The lady serving me my pizza and salad is Mani, our fabulous PA. I call her Libbie as a way of saying hi to my grandmother.
What got cut… The salad Mani/Libbie put down was put together by the Dervaes family. It was made entirely from their farm, was 100% organic, and was topped by edible flowers. Yum! Still, the original ending had me getting into a tug-of-war over the non-organic pizza with our cameraman! (He won.)
For more info on who I am and what I’m up to, check out my Yahoo! 360 page or my personal site.
And who knows, maybe next time we’re out talking to people on the street, we’ll run into YOU!
Visit these urban farmers and urban homesteaders at their website www.PathtoFreedom.com
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I would never eat …
I would never eat organic food. Its a rip-off and a scam as most organic foods are no different from the rest of the food we eat. Organic is just a label that companies purchase from the organizations that own it. There have been many tests comparing organic to “non-organic” food, and most have found no difference, many have found organic to be MORE un-healthy, and only a small amount say its better.
Blind taste-tests have also shown that there is no taste difference.
My God never …
My God never thought of it that way….
thanks for the …
thanks for the informed and rational response. too many people on here fly off the handle, instead of just answering simple questions…You seem very knowledgeable, and concerned about where your food comes from. How do you feel about the raw/pastuerized argument?
To the best of my …
To the best of my knowledge, only time gets rid of the Strontium-90.
The grain feed comes from Agway.. The label says it’s from Minnesota. (I’ve actually mentioned that the grain needs to be tested too, as there are nuclear sites there also.) They only get a bit of grain once a day, along with hay, and the hay is grown locally. The rest comes from her backyard, they eat what they find there. They drink the same well water that I do.
just curious, does …
just curious, does pastuerization or any pharmacueticals get rid of the Strontium? is your neighbor getting feed from a fallout brownfield? or is their farm on an old site?
Organic does NOT …
Organic does NOT equal safe.
My neighbor tests her goats milk regularly for Strontium-90. It tests POSITIVE. (Strontium-90 is a by-product of nuclear fission which is found in nuclear fallout.. Look that up on Wiki too.)
If she were selling her ORGANIC goats milk, she would be selling the Strontium-90 right along with it.
The scary thing is that there are other local people who DO sell “organic” goats milk and cheese, who do not test their milk.
What i think is …
What i think is important, is genetic diversity. No wonder we have so many new allergies. The same peanuts have been given to generations and generations of Americans. I won’t go into the details about allergies but if the body comes into contact with same peanut strain for their entire lifetime and there children as well, our bodies begin to become oversensitive to this peanut. The same goes for milk.
Your argument is …
Your argument is the equivalent of “I’m going to drop a bomb on a metropolis, but it will only kill the women.” Also, while conventional soil is NPK rich, it lacks vital micronutrients upon which the plants depend. owned.
Idiots, you guys …
Idiots, you guys are just spewing out what you’ve heard either here or on TV.
You probably don’t even know what a pesticide is, and now that I mention it, your going to go look it up in wikipedia.
Not to mention the USA survivors here. In 2007, the FDA (go look it up if you need to) signed an agreement stating that 25 artificial ingredients and processes may be used in food labeled “organic” (don’t look this up, you wont find it online, in case you didn’t know, not all of the world is online)
The chemicals do …
The chemicals do affect the plant grown for food only the weeds. The soil is not nutritionally deficient. would you rather eat food from a healthy plant or a sick looking yellow plant
Well, you know what …
Well, you know what they say – you get what you pay for.
conventional food …
conventional food is filled with chemicals:pesticides, herbicides etc and grown in nutritionally deficient soil.
Keep up the good …
Keep up the good work. We will follow. You are constant inspiration for me.