I haven't read through all of it yet but I'm curious if the reduction is purely because of a correlation between eating organic foods and simply eating less overall or other factors correlated with a healthy lifestyle (e.g. actually exercising).
Sure, in theory. However, organic produce isn't that much more expensive than conventionally grown produce, but organic meat is way more expensive than conventionally grown meat. I expect someone choosing organic foods will likely eat more veggies than someone eating conventionally farmed foods.
Also, it's pretty hard to find organic fast food. Most restaurants that push organic foods are a bit more expensive, so again, people would likely avoid them.
Definitly biased but we have all that in switzerland. Like Organic snacks/fast food on the roadside.
From my experience I can tell this is also the case in Austria and the Netherlands.
I also know people eating exclusively or mostly organic but still a meat heavy diet (I do as well).
I would want to argue it's not a income question but the average life quality is probably just that much higher.
As a reference organic meat in shops is about twice the price. In take aways way less as service is the actual main cost.
Edit:// lowest available meat quality is probably a factor to. All these countries have rather high minimal standards compared to many other countries at least
Organic foods still use a ton of pesticides. I just think people that would pay extra for organic foods are more interested in health overall, so it's a correlative effect only.
I don't think a double-blind test is feasible here, but I wouldn't be surprised if it showed little difference between both types of farming, provided proper food preparation is followed (wash produce, throughout cook meats, etc).
I'll go out on a limb and assume that the authors probably thought about that (you know, being scientists and all) and controlled for it, hence the reason it got published in the first place.
The point of the USDA sticker is not avoiding pesticides. That would be false anyways, there are organic pesticides in use. The point is everything else required to earn that sticker. That is why I avoid conventional products.
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[ 0.24 ms ] story [ 28.8 ms ] threadI haven't read through all of it yet but I'm curious if the reduction is purely because of a correlation between eating organic foods and simply eating less overall or other factors correlated with a healthy lifestyle (e.g. actually exercising).
You can eat unhealthy fast food all day and be all organic.
Also, it's pretty hard to find organic fast food. Most restaurants that push organic foods are a bit more expensive, so again, people would likely avoid them.
From my experience I can tell this is also the case in Austria and the Netherlands.
I also know people eating exclusively or mostly organic but still a meat heavy diet (I do as well).
I would want to argue it's not a income question but the average life quality is probably just that much higher.
As a reference organic meat in shops is about twice the price. In take aways way less as service is the actual main cost.
Edit:// lowest available meat quality is probably a factor to. All these countries have rather high minimal standards compared to many other countries at least
I haven't read the study yet, however it seems pretty obvious.
I don't think a double-blind test is feasible here, but I wouldn't be surprised if it showed little difference between both types of farming, provided proper food preparation is followed (wash produce, throughout cook meats, etc).