Choosing For One’s Health: GMO Or Organic Farm Foods?

GMO Vs Organic Farming – Which is the healthier choice? 

GMO farming is a choice; so is organic farming. Now, how good are the GMO people in presenting which one produces the healthier food: GMO or organic?

The GMO proselytizers will have to try harder.

In his “Why GMO And Gene-Edited Biofortified Crops Weaken Case For Organic Agriculture[1]” in Genetic Literacy Project (29 May 2020):

Steven Cerier is actually misleadingthe reader.
The real issue is healthy vs unhealthy farm produce.

Thus, Mr Cerier says:

Organic food sales rose by 125.1% between 2009 and 2018… One of the major reasons for this stellar expansion is the misconception, propagated by the industry itself, that organic foods are healthier and more nutritious than conventionally grown foods.

To counter that claim, Mr Cerier says:

(Genetic engineering) is yielding a new lineup of GMO and gene-edited crops with nutrient content organic growers simply can’t replicate.

Now, note that Mr Cerier is equating “healthier” with “more or higher nutrient contents.” Something wrong!

Because Mr Cerier does not deny that in conventional/GMO farming, “Exposure to these (low-level pesticide-derived) toxins has been linked to brain and central nervous system disruption, infertility, cancer, and even changes to our DNA.”

Mr Cerier just quotes and leaves that alone!

He insists that the “literature lacks strong evidence that organic foods are significantly more nutritious than conventionally grown food.” He may be right when we are talking only of “more nutrients” – but we are talking here of more toxins in your GMO food because of chemical pesticides! (Food Wars image from YouTube[2])

He then quotes from the report of a study conducted by Stanford University in 2012:

Analyzing the data, the researchers found little significant difference in health benefits between organic and conventional foods. No consistent differences were seen in the vitamin content of organic products, and only one nutrient – phosphorus – was significantly higher in organic versus conventionally grown produce (and the researchers note that because few people have phosphorous deficiency, this has little clinical significance).

There is more to quote – but enough! The report talks only of differences in the contents of nutrients such as vitamins and phosphorus – and gingerly dismisses the pesticide residues in GMO foods.

While organic foods have fewer synthetic pesticides and fertilizers and are free of hormones and antibiotics, they don’t appear to have a nutritional advantage over their conventional counterparts.

What – organic foods have pesticides in them? Those are not organically grown!

There was no difference in protein or fat content between organic and conventional milk, though evidence from a limited number of studies suggested that organic milk may contain significantly higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids.

I will simply repeat what I have been saying above:

It is not how much higher the nutrient contents of GMO foods are – it is that they are raised with chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and of course the chemical fertilizers produce nitrates that pollute the waters and the pesticides that are sprayed pollute the foods we eat.

It’s time to unpollute our minds!@517

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[1]https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2020/05/29/viewpoint-arrival-of-gmo-gene-edited-biofortified-crops-weakens-case-for-organic-agriculture/?fbclid=IwAR1hnoeLOIRaQHbwlcNVcAkftm4x-9IUv1DfsLxpaTsfp6-qWymcRYXOJD4

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6si9c5hvSHE