I've written about this before. There may be some very tiny marginal benefits to organic food, but they are unlikely to impact healthhttps://medium.com/@gidmk/organic-food-isnt-better-for-your-health-93a35584639d …
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The basic idea is that organic food might be slightly higher in certain nutrients and a tiny bit lower in certain pesticides
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The problem is that these quantities are usually in the micro and nanograms. Truly miniscule amounts Whether that can potentially help is very unlikelypic.twitter.com/q4R7JGcsLw
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And trials that actually look at the question generally come up empty. There doesn't really seem to be much of a benefit at all
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Isn't the benefit to the environment, so of indirect benefit to human health?
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“Across several metrics, organic agriculture actually proves to be more harmful for the world's environment than conventional agriculture.” It is also far more labor intensive, which isn’t captured in this data. More people, water & land for less food. https://ourworldindata.org/is-organic-agriculture-better-for-the-environment …pic.twitter.com/tMYTJvvAow
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Eating totally organic food is guaranteed to do one thing - empty your wallet!
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Sure there is! If you compare it to not eating food.
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significantly better than just eating inorganic food.
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