Organic Food Scandal

A study came out last week announcing that organic food has no nutritional or health benefit over ordinary food. This is one of the tricks of our media that just ticks me off! Let's make a controversy over something and blow it out of proportion. I would hope that people smart enough to want healthier food are also smart enough to understand why organic foods are healthier. Shouldn't it be common sense and basic science to understand that growing foods without chemical additives will not change their basic molecular structure and suddenly pack them fuller of nutrients?

Putting chemicals into the soil and onto the plants during the growth cycle will, however, introduce chemicals into the vegetable/fruit and then into the person consuming those products. Having grown up in an agricultural community, studied agricultural business, and worked for both a private farmer and the USDA, I learned what types of chemicals are being put on our food and it's scary. I don't want that stuff in me or especially in my children as their little bodies are growing and developing. Remember DDT and bald eagles in the 70's? That's why I buy farm salmon instead of wild salmon and why I prefer organic foods over "ordinary" food. It's also why I have started buying organic milk. My daughter drinks a gallon a week and I don't want those growth hormones that get injected into cows getting transferred into my child.

Now don't believe I'm a complete health nut cuz I'm not. But I prefer to serve natural food... baked chicken I cook over frozen chicken nuggets warmed up, fresh or frozen veggies over canned veggies, lasagna assembled at home over frozen pre-made lasagna. I may be off target, but I believe pre-made food has too many preservatives and common sense tells me those chemicals cannot be healthy. So, when my kids want something sweet, I give them the stuff with real sugar or corn syrup, no artificial sweetners for my babies. Do we know what those complex chemical do to our kids' developing physiology? Okay, folks, I'll get off the food soap box now...

¡Hasta pronto, mis amigos!

~N