The Natural, Organic, Whole Foods Community is thrilled about the late July Government report about organic vs chemically grown food report. Really when they give us in the natural organic whole foods community “lemons” we need to make “lemonade”.
On July 30, 2009 the Government’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) put out a report that basically denied claims by organic producers that organic whole food has a more nutritious product. The “better product” claims made by organic growers has been made before but this time a report commissioned by the Government does not agree.
The report states further that results in papers on the nutritional comparisons and the possibility of other health benefits conclude that there is NO measurable advantage in organic food. Chief researcher Alan Dangour said: “A small number of differences in nutrient content were found to exist between organically and conventionally produced crops and livestock, but these are unlikely to be of any public health relevance.”
The Natural Organic Whole Foods Community should cheer fabously to hear such news.
The researchers volunteered as a concession that they had not looked into the possibility of contamination of non-organic food by pesticide residues, or into the environmental impacts of the different growing methods. This is Fantastic news for the natural, organic, whole foods community.
Obviously there are some very valuable lessons we may observe by this report.
FIRST: That after one hundred years of chemicals and crop manipulation by “science” the all natural God Designed product has not been improved upon.
SECOND: The only thing that scientific man has been able to add to plant nutrition is poison.
THIRD: Godly stewardship that maintains the soil in a naturally healthy state produces a healthy crop that cannot be improved upon.
FORTH: Instead of complaining about the report the the Natural, Organic, Whole Foods Community should be cheering the greatness of its premiss that all natural organic whole foods are by themselves the best and cannot be improved upon and that the US Government even agrees.
Now maybe you can see why all of us in the natural, organic, whole food community should be cheering this report. Let me know your thoughts by posting comments below.
Senior Editor & CEO,
Harvest Source Whole Foods Journal
Senior Editor & CEO, Harvest Source Whole Foods Journal
Darrell W. Ross is a Graduate of Idaho State University with a BA in Art. A consummate energetic business man for over 40 years in a broad diversity of family business ranging from Construction, Excavating, Tree Service, Federal Contracting, Real Estate, Property Management, Retail, Natural Organic Whole Foods Distribution, and Publishing. Darrell is very happily married to Marcia his wife of 39 years and mother of their six Home Schooled children and currently resides in Burley, Idaho where he practices his healthy living with Marcia and their two youngest Zachary and Caroline, and gives daily “elderly care” to his elderly parents, Wesley & Jennie.
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