organic

Writing this here, as there it has sparked out of the Skeptoid threads where there is a limitation of space, but it is a subject that highlights some interesting points on how science is viewed, or at least assumed. Now what I am not going to comment on is the ethical issue of battery farming...

Thursday, I have to cover for someone at a VI centre where I don't normally work. I show up about half an hour late, to see a farmer offloading a couple of dead hens. I swear a bit because I hate hens, and where I normally work we usually manage to offload them because DEFRA has some real hen...

Analyzing a study, help needed, part xxx: "Organic diet enhanced the health of rats" This Danish study from 2005 was recently quoted by a couple of my more woo-loving friends to show that organic food is healthier than non-organic. It has also appeared in the biggest newspapers here in Finland...

A while ago, I decided I was going to make my sandwiches and stir-fries more interesting, and began looking for some extra vegetables I could put in. I heard that sprouts were very healthful, since they contained nutrients needed to help grow into a real plant. So I got a box of them, and...

Is the fundamental premise of "organic food" - ie that it should be free from pesticides and any intensive agricultural practise itself bad for the environment? Insofar as it results in lower crop/meat yields per given area and thus necessitates greater agricultural land use..... Thus [for a...

I'm fine with it.

I was watching the news today. It seems that the US government has decided that after years of research the meat (as well as eggs, milk ect) from cloned animals is every bit as safe as that from non-cloned animals. The science behind the report (from what I was able to read) seems pretty...

Organic society If we added to traditional thinking the abstract idea of change our world becomes tremendously complex. The way we manage the complexity is that we create; we create by introducing generalizations plus other abstractions. Philosopher, tycoon, philanthropist, author, and...

I happened upon this strawman of a site: http://www.stoplabelinglies.com, which seems to revolve around calling organic food companies on the carpet for mislabeling their products, and touting them as equal to factory farmed products. While in Horizon's case, this is interesting, the rest is...

Ok, I was driving into work this morning, and heard an ad for a grocery store extolling their virtues for carrying organic (and locally grown) produce. Then there was the bit that wiggled my balony detector (above and beyond the usual ad-speak). This is paraphrased from memory, so I may be...

http://www.aussiebum.com/Secure_online_shopV6/home.html?lang=en-us&target=d66.html Undies!! Bwaaahaaaaaaaa :p :p :p

Organic farming produces same corn and soybean yields as conventional farms, but consumes less energy and no pesticides, study finds. http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July05/organic.farm.vs.other.ssl.html

I have a neighbor who loves his organic vegetables. One of his reasons is, he's worried about pesticides on "conventional" vegetables. Knowing I'm pretty skeptical about things, he knows to come well armed. He presented me with this paper http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2003/5754/abstract.html...

I'm not a chemist but this doesn't sound right. "Organic calcium"? What about this? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4389837.stm

Organic Farming Harms the World, or so it is argued in this article from today's Daily Telegraph. Well, it must be at least a week since we had this argument, so why not revive it? Rolfe.

Study finds organic vegetables bolster immunity A Danish study has found organically grown vegetables strengthen the immune systems and add more vitamin E to the bloodstream in rats. Researchers at the Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences (DIAS) have found rats fed with organically grown...

Solar Power Goes Organic Another iffy one.