Comments on: Contradictory study on organics and nutrition

By: Important Study Excluded from FSA Review of Organic Food Research | From Scratch

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:30:24 +0000

[...] relating to organic food that concluded organics are not more nutritious — the one that I noted contradicts an earlier huge study funded by the EU — is the subject of another piece in today’s [...]

By: ellaella

ellaella — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:35:41 +0000

No apology needed — thanks, Muse! It’s a shame it took 2 days for someone else to notice but I guess that’s beside the point. The Telegraph (aka: Torygaph) ran an interesting follow-up article – I didn’t know the FSA (which funded this study) has a history in this regard. The piece begins “What’s with the Food Standards Agency and organic food? It just can’t leave it alone. Not, of course, in the sense of wanting to wolf it down, but in trying to persuade the us not to do so.” Should have been noted in the original report, I think.

(And I’m still wondering how our prarie dogs could look different from yours and wishing I could find those slides!)

By: MusEditions

MusEditions — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:20:21 +0000

And this just in from HuffPo: “Study ignores documented benefits of Organics”
(I apologize for linking elsewhere, but it’s more fuel for balance on this important issue.)
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By: ellaella

ellaella — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:03:03 +0000

It does complement the earlier post this month (thanks for linking to it!) and you’re absolutely right about taking in information and making a decision. It reminds me of the wonderful slogan of Syms, a clothing discounter in NYC: An educated consumer is our best customer.

I am semi-amazed, though, at the amnesia in the reports of this latest study. That EU study was huge. Of course untold journalists have lost their jobs since then, thanks to the recession, so perhaps context is a victim too.

By: MusEditions

MusEditions — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:34:26 +0000

This, to me, is a companion piece to your recent post on organics. All we can really do is consume as much good, reliable information as we can (like your blog!) and then use our own conclusions and intuitions to make the best choices for us as individuals. And the advice from that movie, “Follow the money.”, is worth considering.
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