Parsing of Data Led to Mixed Messages on Organic Food’s Value

[CAF Note: If you want to understand the difference in these two studies, just take a look at the investments in the Stanford Endowment portfolio, the syndicate that uses their services and the governments that fund their research]

by Kenneth Chang

A team of scientists laboriously reviewed decades of research comparing organic fruits and vegetables with those grown the usual way. They found that, as many had suspected, the organic produce, farmed without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides, was more nutritious, with more vitamin C, on average, and many more of the plant-defense molecules that in people help shield against cancer and heart disease.

That is probably not the study you heard about.

The findings, by scientists at Newcastle University in England, appeared in April 2011 and barely made a ripple in the news media or in the public consciousness.

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