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Is Organic Produce Healthier?
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 9:25 am
by rocketdog
A fascinating scientific study of fruit flies by a teenager(!) sheds some potential light on the answer:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/1 ... fruit-fly/
Re: Is Organic Produce Healthier?
Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 12:07 pm
by melveyr
Wow, that's a really creative way to approach it. I have been buying more organic food mostly because I don't trust a lot of the big food corporations but its interesting to see some harder data to back it up
Re: Is Organic Produce Healthier?
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 12:11 pm
by Tyler
Smart kid.
However, this just shows correlation and not causation. From the article:
"The difference in outcomes among the flies fed different diets could be due to the effects of pesticide and fungicide residue from conventionally raised foods."
So fruit flies don't do well when fed fruit treated with pesticides. That's kinda the point.