Pro Vs Cons Organic Food

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Organic. Is there really a difference? Organic food is riding a surge in popularity; across the globe, sales of organic food are burgeoning. The global market in 2006 was estimated at close to an impressive US$40 billion (A$47.9 billion) by Organic Monitor, an industry research body, and growing 20 per cent annually in the U.S. and Canada (Finkel). So why is organic food getting ever more popular? By just putting a label on food saying it’s healthier and safer than regular food would be enough to get people to buy it. Also with all the more and more places opening like Whole Foods Market, Central Market and Fresh Market attract people from everywhere. If consumers believe its better for them and it makes them healthier and maybe even live longer, people would buy it no matter if its more expensive than lets say Wal-Mart or Sam’s Club. Others buy organic foods over conventional because they believe it’s helping the environment or they don’t want to support the practices of agribusiness (Jackson). But there is no evidence saying organic food is actually healthier. The surprising fact is that this mass migration to organic food has not been on the back of scientific evidence (Finkel). People believe that organic is better for you because it is grown or made with fewer pesticides. Because of this, it made lead people to believe that there is more nutrients or vitamins in the organic food. But this is not true, the Organic Trade Council stated “There is no conclusive evidence at this time to suggest that organically produced foods are more nutritious” (Jackson). Because there are fewer or no pesticides used in organic foods, consumers believe there is no bacteria or harmful chemicals in them either. But in fact these natural farms have other kind of bacteria in the soil. David Klurfeld, chairman of the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at Wane State

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