Natural Deception: A Sobering Look at the Truth Behind the Organic Food Industry
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (503 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B017JAO4S2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 430 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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A book that all health-conscious people should read Retro Grade Even though I’ve been interested in nutrition and health for about 10 years now, this book still had lots of valuable information that I’ve never come across before. To summarise: organic food production has sadly succumbed to the profit-above-all mentality and the only safe bet is to buy from small-scale local farmers that one knows well.The only question that was left unanswered for me is this: Isn’t it also important that less pesticide use in organic agriculture leads to less pesticides reaching our water supplies? In other words, . Good Read - Thought Provoking Ralphy I enjoyed this book. If you have worried about pesticides like me this book will be comforting. I am a born and raised believer in organic growing practices but for those who don't have the means to buy organic, it is great to think the difference may be minimal. I still think organic is best but let's hope Joey Lott is right about conventional products. There is still much work to be done to improve the lives of livestock though.. Sunbeamhonest information Sunbeam48 Great and to the point information regarding organic food production and consumption. Bottom line: organic food is not healthier for people, and is not necessarily better for the animals or environment when practiced on a large scale.. 8 said honest information. Great and to the point information regarding organic food production and consumption. Bottom line: organic food is not healthier for people, and is not necessarily better for the animals or environment when practiced on a large scale.
Find out what major corporation owns your favorite small organic brand. Sure, you could spend half as much, but it's worth it to know that you're supporting a small family farm where the cows can munch on green grass all day. Plus, you're not drinking nasty hormones and chemicals, and you're doing your part to save the environment. Seems like you're winning all around, but what would you do if that picture of the happy farm, the personal health, and the clean air and water turned out not to be so pretty? What if organic isn't all it's hyped up to be?What if organic produce only had marginally less pesticide residues than conventional produce? What if the organic, grass-fed beef cows ended up on the very same feedlots as factory-farmed, grain-fed beef cows? What if large swaths of the country were being taken over by huge corporate-owned farming operations, organic farming operations that were destroying the landscape and depleting the soil? Organic is much more complicated than we've been led to believe