How to piss me off in one easy lesson

It's not always about nutrition. This article, http://news.yahoo.com/study-questions-much-better-organic-food-071356280.html, popped up yesterday. I don't eat organic because of it's enhanced nutritional value. Duh. A green bean is a green bean. I eat it because it does not have added chemicals. It's not because of the chemicals I can wash off either, it's because of the chemicals absorbed through the roots. Vegetables and fruit don't grow larger because of the chemicals on the outside, they grow large because of the chemicals absorbed from the soil into the vegetable.

The meat I choose is growth hormone free. I don't need extra growth hormones in my diet. I don't mind if the animals have some antibiotics if they get sick, but I do mind the antibiotics if they are given to the animal to prevent disease because the animals live in filthy conditions, crowded like my ancestors in steerage on their way to America. I prefer my meat to have been raised in a pasture, allowed to graze and live a stress free life until it hits my plate.

While the title of the article suggests all food is created equal, this was buried in the middle of the article:

"Her team did find a notable difference with antibiotic-resistant germs, a public health concern because they are harder to treat if they cause food poisoning.

Specialists long have said that organic or not, the chances of bacterial contamination of food are the same, and Monday's analysis agreed. But when bacteria did lurk in chicken or pork, germs in the non-organic meats had a 33 percent higher risk of being resistant to multiple antibiotics, the researchers reported Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.

That finding comes amid debate over feeding animals antibiotics, not because they're sick but to fatten them up. Farmers say it's necessary to meet demand for cheap meat. Public health advocates say it's one contributor to the nation's growing problem with increasingly hard-to-treat germs. Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, counted 24 outbreaks linked to multidrug-resistant germs in food between 2000 and 2010."

Regardless of what the "study" says, I will continue to eat organic. I feel better, my skin has improved dramatically and I have lost weight. The cost remains close to what I was spending in my pre-organic days as I am satisfied with smaller portions.