Organic food is full of shit
No. Really. Just look at this: Organic Food Has 'Significantly Higher' Contamination, Study Finds.
According to this study, organic food has 6 times the amount of fecal matter (shit) than commercially produced food. The numbers are still low, 1.6% vs. 9.7% for organic, but that is still nothing to sneeze at. I wouldn't be afraid to roll the dice in a casino against a 10% chance to lose, but not with my life. They didn't find E. coli O157:H7 (the deadly kind) but it is prevalent in animal fecal matter and I would not be surprised to find it somewhere.
And you can't just wash it off either. In plants that grow on the ground like lettuce, the fecal matter is drawn inside the plant itself, and no amount of washing will get it out.
Just remember the last paragraph of this article:
"We are still looking for the first cancer death victim from pesticide residues. But we have several examples of children killed by pathogenic bacteria on organic produce," [Alex Avery] added.Our ancestors lived in filth and died by the score from various diseases. We should have learned from that.
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