Organic Food: Truth or Fallacy? by Margot B

Every food scare - about chemicals, additives, and genetically modified

ingredients and mad cow disease, is followed by a rise in organic food

sales.

In most supermarkets we are able to find organic food; fresh produce,

milk, eggs, cereal, frozen food, and even junk food. I prefer organic

food, assuming it to be safer, more nutritious.

But, notice that the label on Organic Cow has changed - now it is

"ultrapasterized," - this ensures that the milk will stay fresh,

allowing it to be shipped all over the country.

An organic TV dinner in the frozen foods section

advertises its chicken to be raised without chemicals

and allowed "to roam freely in an outdoor yard", the rice and vegetables

grown without synthetic chemicals. The list of ingredients is extensive;

natural chicken flavor, high-oleic safflower oil, guar and xanthan gum,

soy lecithin, carrageenan and natural grill flavor - and with the

assurance that most of these additives are organic, and no doubt are.

The organic food industry has become a $7.7 billion business, the fastest

growing category in the supermarket, and has attracted the attention of

agribusiness corporation, which the organic food movement always

presented as an alternative. The biggest organic farms are owned and

operated by conventional mega-farms.

Agribusiness has sought to re-define the romantic word

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BIO:

Margot B is a published writer of a book and 100's of articles, specializing in health and environment.
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