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This 4 page paper discusses the fact that organic foods have not been found to be any better than food produced the ordinary way. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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organic food is no better than ordinary food. Discussion Whether or not organic food is better than non-organic food has been a matter of debate since markets began selling it.
Is it worth the travel and the extra expense? People want to know, because it often means a special trip to buy organic food, and it can be very pricey.
The debate continues, so the claim can actually be proven either way. But this paper looks at a report that appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that says
organic foodstuff isnt any better than the foods that are non-organic. Organic is a term that is usually understood to mean that the food is grown without the use of
artificial pesticides or insecticides, which would tend to make most people think that food grown without these chemicals would be better. But amounts are strictly regulated, which brings up the
reported study. The authors wrote that despite increasing demand for organic foods, there has been no systematic review done to see if they provide a significant benefit in nutritional quality;
this study "sought to quantitatively assess the differences in reported nutrient content between organically and conventionally produced foodstuffs" (Dangour et al, 2009). What Dangour and his colleagues, who are
from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, did was to do a sort of records search, in which they looked through the records at Web of Science, PubMed
and CAB Abstracts, for the 50 years from January 1, 1958 to February 29, 2008; in addition they "contacted subject experts and hand-searched bibliographies" (Dangour et al, 2009). They also
included articles from peer-reviewed sources if the articles had English abstracts that "reported nutrient content comparisons between organic and conventional foodstuffs" (Dangour et al, 2009). Two of the reviewers working
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