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What the Deal with Organic Foods? Part 2

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Nutrition by Natalie: What is the difference between organic food and conventional food? Is organic really more healthy for you?

The USDA lays out certain guidelines that farms have to follow in order to be able to claim the food is organic. In this video Natalie discusses what each of those guidelines are.

What is surprising to learn is some of the growing practices of conventional farming and food processing. As an example, chemical plants and waste water treatment facilities will actually sell their toxic waist to conventional farms to use for fertilizer.

What you eat is an important part of health and nutrition.

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http://www.nutritionbynatalie.com

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Duration : 0:6:15

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Comments

  1. Yea the FDA sucks. …
    Yea the FDA sucks. Organic standards are maintained the the USDA though.

  2. How to I know that …
    How to I know that the food at the store is really organic? Just because the label says “organic”, How will the consumer ever really know if that product is organic? The FDA is some of the tiest mother ers in the world!!!!!!!

  4. Or you could eat …
    Or you could eat organic foods and just buy and eat less food. Concentrate on efficiency of consumption and usage. You get more nutritional value from these foods anyway so your body does not require as much food as most people are used to consuming. Also wash your veggies and fruits with a water and vinegar solution or alternatively water and bentonite clay. That will extend the shelf life of dramatically and result in less waste.

    Or you could just whine and cry about it and go on as usual.

  6. If you can’t afford …
    If you can’t afford organic food, eating conventionally grown whole foods is 1000 times better than the typical American diet and far cheaper than buying pre-prepared foods and eating out.

  7. many people dont …
    many people dont buy organic food, are because they are not able to afford it, even though they want to have organic food. what can you do about that, nothing! ask those people to work harder? make more money ?

  8. Australia used to …
    Australia used to have a ban on GM canola, but this has changed recently.

  9. I really like this …
    I really like this series…I will go check out your website if you have one!

  10. With increasing …
    With increasing inflation setting in, it may lead to even more gmo.
    I think gmo may be better for if we were ever going to do biofuels on a huge scale. Make huge corn which are completely filled with oil
    That’s the problem with the ever-increasing size of the government. They try to subsidize things because lobbyists.

  12. Government doesn’t …
    Government doesn’t subsidize organic farming. But they sure as heck have no problem subsidizing corn farmers. From whence comes high fructose corn syrup. Where do most of these farmers reside? IOWA. Where is the 1st Presidential contest held? IOWA. So what are the chances of electing someone who doesn’t cowtow to that special interest? Well, like him or not John McCain didn’t do it in Iowa and he came in 4th there. Don’t agree with him on everything, but guess who I’m voting for in Nov?

  13. 100 percent natural …
    100 percent natural doesn’t mean anything. It’s not a regulated term.

  14. does 100% natural …
    does 100% natural mean the same as all natural? i get confused about the difference.

  15. non organic foods …
    non organic foods and such disgust me 100,000x more then 2girl1cup and the government is just a F-ing corporate when it comes to regulations. they don’t serve the people they serve their corporate economy.

  18. cheaper is relative …
    cheaper is relative.

    you save a dollar today, but it costs you 10,000 dollars in the future for medical bills

  20. is it you Nataile …
    is it you Nataile who responds?-hey didn’t Bush loosen the laws or the organic label thus making the quality less?

  23. Good video its very …
    Good video its very important information. An important person of note that led to the labeling of “GM” food in Europe is a man named Arpad Pusztai. His story is an important one for everyone to know. We need more heros like Pusztai in the US to ensure our food is safe to eat.

  24. In order for food …
    In order for food to have word organic on the label, it has to meet the USDA specifications for organic food. That is what this video goes over, what the USDA specifications are. It would be illegal for a company to put the word organic on a food label unless it met this standard. By the way, “all natural” means nothing and the term isn’t regulated. Only food labeled as organic is actually organic.

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