The Fail and Sexpress seem to have an almost symbiotic relationship, don’t they? Especially the identical ignorant slagging of the Met Office. And who ever said that organic food was “healthier”, anyway? It’s generally accepted to be of better quality, but that is not the same thing at all.
The FSA study looked at whether organic veg contained more vitamins/nutrients than veg grown in the industrial standard way. It did this by surveying the outcomes of 50 years of previous trials.
It said nothing about whether organic food was healthier or not – most people choose organic food because the alternatives contains shed-loads of pesticides/preservatives/antibiotics. I’d say (as a layman) that not eating pesticides etc is probably better for than doing so.
You deliberately add to the idiotic refusal to admit AGW is happening and you throw in a highly contentious study and splash a headline which was not one of the reports conclusions.
Well done.
Damaging the consciousness of the nation you claim to love, again.
Yes. The Soil Association are right to do so, their criticisms of the actual report are valid – and are particularly pertinent when played against the coverage of the report here
In the back of the Express today they had a story about foreign footballers having to learn English……….Fair enough nothing much there HOWEVER underneath was a piece apparently written by a NEW FOREIGN SIGNING and yeah it had all the stereotypes of a foreigner thrown in, the single most pathetic dribble in a paper full of pathetic dribble.
I agree with Rob, the sooner people stop buying into “It’s healthier because its organic” the better- people unfortunately refuse to accept stories like this, probably because they’ve been forking out more for organic food for years.
Better taste/quality of organic food may once have been true – when it was the province of a few small scale dedicated producers. It’s my belief that this was due to their scale & dedication/obsession, rather than their organic methods.
With commercial scale organic production having yields comparable to conventional methods, all this benefit has gone.
Antigherkin – the pesticide residue issue imho is overblown; anyone who smokes, drinks alcohol above the advisory levels, eats less than 5-a-day, consumes too much fat or sugar etc has much bigger health/dietary improvements to make first before the unquantifiable risk of pesticides.
Will someone PLEASE explain to my mother that people don’t buy organic food because if’s ‘healthier’ but because it doesn’t contain pesticides and harm soil and insect life?
I have tried and failed before now, now I know where she gets these opinions from …
Thanks.
This atonishing “new” revelation about organic food was revealed by a BBC documentary a couple of years ago and people have been arguing that the health benefits from organic food are bogus for years.
Incidentally, despite what a few people here claim, a lot of people fork-out extra for organics because they’re convinced its healthier due to being more “natural”, a classic bit of Maily thinking.
The Fail and Sexpress seem to have an almost symbiotic relationship, don’t they? Especially the identical ignorant slagging of the Met Office. And who ever said that organic food was “healthier”, anyway? It’s generally accepted to be of better quality, but that is not the same thing at all.
The FSA study looked at whether organic veg contained more vitamins/nutrients than veg grown in the industrial standard way. It did this by surveying the outcomes of 50 years of previous trials.
It said nothing about whether organic food was healthier or not – most people choose organic food because the alternatives contains shed-loads of pesticides/preservatives/antibiotics. I’d say (as a layman) that not eating pesticides etc is probably better for than doing so.
In short – Express headline FAIL.
The grammar of that weather headline scans appalingly.
Nice one DE.
You deliberately add to the idiotic refusal to admit AGW is happening and you throw in a highly contentious study and splash a headline which was not one of the reports conclusions.
Well done.
Damaging the consciousness of the nation you claim to love, again.
Do you get a lot of organic food at Lidl?
Finally an express headline I can agree with! No doubt the Soil Association will squirm and say that the science is unprecise.
@Rob
http://www.soilassociation.org/Whyorganic/Health/tabid/59/Default.aspx
Yes. The Soil Association are right to do so, their criticisms of the actual report are valid – and are particularly pertinent when played against the coverage of the report here
Will Prince Charles have a whine about this? Let’s hope so, for entertainment value.
Weather Person surely?
In the back of the Express today they had a story about foreign footballers having to learn English……….Fair enough nothing much there HOWEVER underneath was a piece apparently written by a NEW FOREIGN SIGNING and yeah it had all the stereotypes of a foreigner thrown in, the single most pathetic dribble in a paper full of pathetic dribble.
Slightly racist in a way…..
Surely the Express aren’t so shallow as to put on the front page a no doubt spurious conjecture about creams that enhance cleavage…. are they?
I agree with Rob, the sooner people stop buying into “It’s healthier because its organic” the better- people unfortunately refuse to accept stories like this, probably because they’ve been forking out more for organic food for years.
Don’t all Express ‘readers’ (sic) go to that immoral hole Dubai anyway?
I’m thinking about that wonder cream, I am wondering if it works on men.
Better taste/quality of organic food may once have been true – when it was the province of a few small scale dedicated producers. It’s my belief that this was due to their scale & dedication/obsession, rather than their organic methods.
With commercial scale organic production having yields comparable to conventional methods, all this benefit has gone.
Antigherkin – the pesticide residue issue imho is overblown; anyone who smokes, drinks alcohol above the advisory levels, eats less than 5-a-day, consumes too much fat or sugar etc has much bigger health/dietary improvements to make first before the unquantifiable risk of pesticides.
Will someone PLEASE explain to my mother that people don’t buy organic food because if’s ‘healthier’ but because it doesn’t contain pesticides and harm soil and insect life?
I have tried and failed before now, now I know where she gets these opinions from …
Thanks.
Was that weather comment gained from the interview with the little girl or the swan? We demand to know!
Is ‘our leader’ on holiday? Why no new front pages in nearly a week?
This atonishing “new” revelation about organic food was revealed by a BBC documentary a couple of years ago and people have been arguing that the health benefits from organic food are bogus for years.
Incidentally, despite what a few people here claim, a lot of people fork-out extra for organics because they’re convinced its healthier due to being more “natural”, a classic bit of Maily thinking.