Conventional Food

Safe vs. Safer

Alex Formuzis | Posted 05.23.2012

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Alex Formuzis

A pesticide used on conventional produce may be deemed "safe" one day only to be restricted or banned the next when new evidence comes in.

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Shocker: The Young And Well-Educated Choose Organic Food

Posted 09.21.2011

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A new Thomson Reuters poll [pdf] found that the majority (58%) of consumers prefer organic food to conventional food. This preference is particularly...

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Is Whole Foods Losing Its Sustainable Luster?

Rob Smart | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rob Smart

Whole Foods' very presence in small regional markets undermines established relationships between regional food retailers and suppliers, including farmers, processors and related service providers.

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Seeing Through the Food Industry's "Personal Responsibility" Smoke Screen

Rob Smart | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rob Smart

"Personal responsibility" is used as a smoke screen to cover the tracks of industrial food, tracks that run roughshod over the mirage of choice and personal responsibility.

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Organics No Better Than Chemical/GMO/Sewage Sludge-Soaked "Food"?

Waylon Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Waylon Lewis

Studies like the FSA report need to look beyond the dinner plate and recognize that organic farming's avoidance of chemicals offers health benefits beyond nutrition.

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The "Is Organic Food Healthier" Debate Reignited

The Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

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Organic food is no healthier than conventional food, according to the world's biggest research project into the issue. A review of scientific studies...

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