Organic Food Isn’t Better For Your Health
Environmentally friendly? Maybe. Healthy? Probably not
An ongoing argument that I’ve had with almost every “clean eater” that I’ve ever met is about organic food. Virtually every person who tries to eat healthy, at one point or another, decides to go organic. It’s better for the environment, and getting rid of all those nasty chemicals has to be good for your health.
Right?
You see this everywhere. The first thing that every paleo proponent will earnestly tell you is that conventional farming causes everything from cancer to autoimmune disease, and pretty much everything in between. A quick glance online shows you people demonizing GMOs and pesticides left right and centre, with organics apparently the only safe choice in a sea of disease-causing nasties.
But alarmist fearmongering about nasty chemicals is all the rage, and despite these claims we all seem to be getting stubbornly healthier every year.
