What are positive and negitive FACTS about organic foods?

Answer 1

positive: NO pesticides, not genetically altered foods

negatives: higher prices, lots of hype

Answer 2

The VAST majority of the time, the "unnatural" stuff is actually better for you than the "organic" stuff. Organic supposedly means no added chemicals, pesticides, etc., but it also includes no fertilizers in the soil and only water to clean the foods before they are prepared and sold. Fertlizers have scary chemical names, but they are all just organic (occuring in nature) compounds that have been purified and concentrated, so that very little has to be added to the soil to produce better crops. This allows us to produce more food on less land, with better results. Also, almost all pesticides now are both water-based and made from organic compounds. This means that you're not consuming any pesticides when you eat the foods they were used on (it's been washed off), and the foods were not "attractive" to insects that carry disease while they were being grown. As far as using "hormones" in the foods, very few actual hormones can be used to grow food. Hormones generally don't work well unless they are produced by the plants themselves. Most of the time, when something has "hormones added" it really just means that the soil was high in natural nutrients, the conditions were optimal for plant growth, and so the plant produced a whole lot of its own growth hormone, resulting in bigger, healthier fruits and vegetables.

The whole reason we're hearing so much about "organic" foods is because the growers and produce companies have brilliant marketing. They throw around words like "chemical pesticides" and "extra hormones" and "chemical fertilizer" and scare people into thinking negatively about their own products, while at the same time producing another, less cost-effective product at a higher price, thus doing the same (roughly) amount of work, making less product (produce) and getting paid more for it. What a deal!

Organic "Meats" is another thing. All these different companies now are advertising that they don't put phosphates and water and salt in their chicken (or pork, or beef, or rattlesnake, or whatever...) but their competitors do, and that's bad. And they always have the same tagline: "You wouldn't _want_ extra [salt, water, phosphates, motor oil, insert various bad things here] in your body, so why put it in your food?" Well, Mr. Meat Guy, I'll tell you why... BECAUSE I'VE SEEN WHAT CHICKENS EAT!!! All that salt and water and phosphate KILL THE BACTERIA LIVING IN THE MEAT! The only other way to keep it all fresh enough to sit in a grocery store for God knows how long before I buy it is to eradiate it. For those of you who think "eradiate" sounds like it involves radiation, you are correct. Think green glowing chicken. Otherwise, think salmonella. Frankly, I'd rather have the phosphates. If you take (virtually) any multivitamin, you're already adding extra phosphates to your body anyway...

Okay, I'm done.

Answer 3

There are no negative facts about organic food, except maybe the price tag. And there are lots of positives, no pesticides, higher nutritional value(due to higher mineral content in the ground they are grown). They are usually picked when ripe so as they get to mature on the vine, therefore more nutrients.

Answer 4

the only negative fact is there is not enough of it produced that all food is not organic and that it costs more...on the good side its good for people, its good for animals, its good for the environment. organic planting methods don't deplete the soil, they don't pollute the water, it does not use pesticides, it does not use products that are not safe, it does not use chemicals. in organic food your getting 100% real pure food where as with non organic sometimes you get chemical additives, many of which are known to cause health problems. go organic any time you can.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Pro:
* no pesticides (which do harm you, poisons, even in small doses cause damage to the body)
* more nutritional value
* better for the environment

Con:
* costs more (but prices go down when they get more popular)
* organic food doesn't look "as nice" (over 75% of the pesticides are purely for appearance reason)

Answer 7

Positive is it's way better food.
Negative is it costs more.
THE POINT is to know when it's worth buying organic and when it isn't.
THE BEST summary of this is at the link I give and I use their shopping list to decide what I should buy organic and what I should buy conventional.

Answer 8

On the plus side, they can be better for you. Negatives are that it takes more land to grow organic due to more loss and some people think that some of the e-coli can come from using organic fertilizer containing manure.

Answer 9

Topix.net is a good source of information for news about organic foods. Check it out:
http://www.topix.net/food/organic

Also, you can read lots of comments about organic foods in forums on the internet, including right here in Yahoo Answers. Check out these forum search results from http://dnoneoftheabove.com:
http://dnoneoftheabove.com/?cx=002486926153363561559%3Ayblv8b6jj6c&q=organic+foods&sa=Search&cof=FORID%3A9
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Answer 10

postives: probably less pesticides and stuff than regular foods

cons: often times they arent actually organic, more expensive, and ive never really heard there being any evidence from a credible source that it is beneficial/the trace amounts of chemicals in regular food are actually harmful