Isn’t Organic Dangerous?

I guess I am a noob to the whole organic thing. I am trying to understand why it is better. Doesn’t food that is sprayed have less damaging bacteria on it? Does organic food basically mean that it hasn’t been chemically treated for pests, bacteria and other harmful things? Or is it that the chemicals are more dangerous for us than the pests and bacteria? Shouldn’t we be using better chemicals then?

Id rather eat natural bacterai that out bodys are evolved to be use to then eating chemicals!

I think that what is largely being sprayed on and around food crops are poisons to kill insects and weeds; there aren’t any sprays to get rid of germs that threaten humans. When fruits and veggies are inspected it’s not to see if it will be healthy for us, they are inspected for the way they look and the size for grading (such as how many make a pound).

Yeah, the rise in organic foods really is much better. Many of the chemicals used to supposedly protect the food are really just applied in order to increase crop yields or the aesthetics of the product itself so it is far, far better not to be digesting these additives.

Yeah, the days are gone when organic produce looked like it had been kicked around before being placed on the grocer’s shelf. As with most products, the organic veggies and fruits had to become more palatable to the eye as well as the appetite.

I have never really thought of organic food ever being dangerous. I think that it is more healthier than regular food with all the added chemicals and such.

I did not realize that organic could considered as dangerous. I have my own garden and I believe that is closer to organic that anything.

Organic doesn’t require any kind of chemicals usage and is purely grown, its real costly while other foods are less costly over organic foods. Whatever food I buy is perfectly cooked before I have it, not a single dish goes uncooked. I hardly have any salads so there isn’t any bacterial problem, apart from fruits which contains bacteria unknown, washing with hot water would help to deal with such problems, so I don’t really mind if it is Organic or not.

Organic, when the word is used to describe a method of farming fruit & veg, means ‘pertaining to, involving, or grown with fertilizers or pesticides of animal or vegetable origin, as distinguished from manufactured chemicals’.

As I see it, you are more at risk from the remenants of chemical pesticides & herbicides on conventionally grown products than you are from bacteria adhering to the surface of any produce. All produce should be washed prior to use anyway.

Strange one. Organic farming is more expensive as crop yields are lower, and are more susceptible to the varients in weather and the attack of pests..

in past centuries that’s how everbody farmed.. and the chemicals introduced were ‘improvements’. Now we are heading back to the old way… mostly I think it is a good thing, but there will be some drawbacks too.

organic foods are much healthier… the chemically sprayed fruits carry many dangerous chemicals in their skin. also when they are pumped full of growth hormones and fertilizers they lose MUCh of their vitamin and mineral content.
the chemicals that are sprayed are dangerous to the surounding eco system as they are often washed off into streams and ponds…

It’s a lot better for sure to be eating foods that haven’t been unnaturally treated with chemicals in order to make better crop yields and nicer looking products. I’d rather eat organic food that was a bit browned than perfect looking food that has been treated chemically.

I understand that there is a product on the market that you can buy clean the chemicals an herbicide stopped off of fruits and vegetables. I think it’s called veggie wash but don’t quote me on that. It’s supposed to clean the fruit or vegetable up any latent pesticides or herbicides that were used during its growing period.

I have heard of similar types of produce washes. I wonder how effective they are. I personally use baking soda to clean veggies such as carrots, potatoes and other denser ones.