Laraness (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} laraness) wrote,@ 2007-10-28 17:56:00 |
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What's the Point of Organic Again?
The point of organic is as much as 40% more antioxidants in fruits and vegetables and up to 90% more antioxidants in milk from organically herded cattle. So really, toss the outdated, pesticide-riddled mess out the window and head down to your local organic farmer's market next time you get a hankering for tomatoes and hummus, or one of my personal favorites, brussel sprouts in apple vinegar. Just imagine overcoming the quandary of getting all your nutrients without overeating or force-feeding yourself vitamins (though Trader Joe's makes some tasty chewables). Who would have thought that Nature actually made that possible? Genius.
The EU's Quality Low Input Food Project has and will continue to rake in fascinating data on the application of organic and low-input methods in agriculture and communities. Finding the name of this project disappointingly took some poking around, but the website is definitely something worth bookmarking. These antioxidant findings, I believe, can be attributed to Workpackage 2.3 of Subproject 2, and I am particularly looking forward to Subproject 6: Transport, trading and retailing.
Abouts:
The London Times Article on Organic Benefits
Quality Low Input Food Project Research Page
The point of organic is as much as 40% more antioxidants in fruits and vegetables and up to 90% more antioxidants in milk from organically herded cattle. So really, toss the outdated, pesticide-riddled mess out the window and head down to your local organic farmer's market next time you get a hankering for tomatoes and hummus, or one of my personal favorites, brussel sprouts in apple vinegar. Just imagine overcoming the quandary of getting all your nutrients without overeating or force-feeding yourself vitamins (though Trader Joe's makes some tasty chewables). Who would have thought that Nature actually made that possible? Genius.
The EU's Quality Low Input Food Project has and will continue to rake in fascinating data on the application of organic and low-input methods in agriculture and communities. Finding the name of this project disappointingly took some poking around, but the website is definitely something worth bookmarking. These antioxidant findings, I believe, can be attributed to Workpackage 2.3 of Subproject 2, and I am particularly looking forward to Subproject 6: Transport, trading and retailing.
Abouts:
The London Times Article on Organic Benefits
Quality Low Input Food Project Research Page
