Nope to get into GD territory here, but it sounds an awful lot like organic food propaganda. What struck me as the most absurd was the bit about potatoes.
Nonorganic Potatoes
Bolding mine.
Amazingly, the solution to all the worries in this article is to buy organic.
I guess the GQ is, how much validity is there to what the “experts” have to say?
And here is a quick run down of the 7 foods the experts won’t eat:
Canned Tomatoes
Corn-Fed Beef
Microwave Popcorn
Nonorganic Potatoes
Farmed Salmon
Milk Produced with Artificial Hormones
Conventional Apples
Thanks,
Jeff
(Also, I did a search for this article and found no results. Apologies if this has already been covered here.)
Each item on that list is an item that ONE “food expert” won’t eat. The headline is misleading at best, and deliberately deceptive at worst. Had they talked to 20 ‘experts’, they would have a list of 20 foods that experts won’t eat.
4 of the 7 experts appear to have no scientific credentials whatsoever.
Of course, the title can be read as if 7 food experts aren’t eating, and given the one horrendously false claim in this thread, I would not push for them to start.
Chipotle advertises that they only use rBGH-free milk in their sour cream. However, on these advertisements, they also state that the FDA has found no chemical difference in milk from rBGH-treated cows and untreated cows. Take from that what you will.
Microwave popcorn??? It’s popcorn in a fucking bag.
I agree that the organic movement is one of the biggest scams going. That being said, organic producers should be coasting right now. They shouldn’t be coming up with idiotic attempts to vilify conventional growers. If they go to far, people are going to catch on to the bullshit.
Conventional apples? I buy my apples at the fruit stand. I’m not going to stand there and interrogate the poor barely English speaking dude on how organic they are!
“How did we get to the point where we’re paying for bottled water? That must have been some weird marketing meeting over in France. Some French guy’s sitting there, like, 'How dumb do I think the Americans are? I bet you we could sell those idiots water.”
Except that generally, organic foods do have no or significantly lower pesticide content (not to mention not using a ton of chemical fertilizers, which can screw up local waterways with algae bloom and the like) compared to conventionally-grown foods, while bottled water is often just municipal tap water. I do agree that certain organic foods really don’t tend to have a significant pesticide uptake and thus can be skipped, though.
I’m disturbed that many here consider organic food a “scam”. While I agree that it may not make a significant health difference for the individual consumer, the difference between the environmental impact of conventional and organic farming is notable. It’s fine if you don’t care about the effects your actions have-- many people don’t-- but that doesn’t make things scammy just because you don’t want to step up.
I’d also like to mention that the stock photo for the article in the OP cracks me up. I’ve never seen someone look so contemptuous of a green in my life.
And just adding to the “WTF?” chorus about potatoes sprouting - dunno about sweet potatoes, but both the conventional and organic white potatoes that I’ve had will sprout away if I leave them for too long.