The Truth About Buying Organic Food 

Begging for money at the end, lol, jeeez the ads are not enough...greedy

@@FreeHempNow you do know that making videos on RU-vid doesn't get u a lot of money right? Unless you get a crap ton of views, its not a lot. Especially because making productions like this take time and research.

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google why it is more expensive.. do some research.. large aggro farms and monsanto control most crop seeds, and mass produce for speed and quantity to maximize profits, but research why organic is so expensive, it is because of giant corporations like monsanto in bed with our government monopolizing farming that creates stupid laws for people growing natural foods, they need special tests for "contamentents", because chemicals were not used, lot of seeds have patents and are sold to small family farmsvat increased prices........in the end, if more people bought organic, they would listen to the lost revenue, thats all they care about --- profit - at all costs - the shareholders demand a good monthly check !!!!!!

yea no sir that is not how the food system works

What do you do about weeds?

@@DukeGMOLOL Pull them?

The problem is scaling

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@@DukeGMOLOL flame weeder

I'm happy to hear that. I think people think way too black and white, as usual. Organic farmers aren't angels and some people make it seem like anything that's not "organic" is deadly-pesticide-infused garbage that will mutate your children or something. I think GMO's can be done wrong as well as very right, and I wish the US (and also the EU, on the other extreme) would differentiate and regulate better. I also think governments should subsidize farming practices that make sense. Because they will ultimately pay the price of dead bees, multiresistant bacteria, no longer suitable crops thanks to changing climates.. the list goes on and on.

@@miriam7872 I strongly agree. I think that subsidies would not only help current farms but would also give other people the opportunity to start their own. The way my family thinks about it, we can either pay a little bit extra in taxes and for the subsidies and continue to enjoy the lowest food prices in the world, or pay the farmers the actual worth of their products wether it be produce or agronomic crops because of that was the case, we would be paying a lot more for food products than we do now. That's one reason so many dairy farms are going out of business, people just aren't buying the amount of dairy products they use to and prices of milk are at an all time low. That same principle applies to other agricultural products as well.

> Thomas Becker "GMO could be something as simple as cross pollination" Wrong. Selective breeding is not GMO. Can you really be that ignorant or are you trying to confuse those who are?

@@johnkesich8696 what does GMO stand for, Genetically Modified Organism. Cross pollination is a slower more natural process to get desirable genes in livestock or crops. The Organism's genetics are then "modified". Sorry this was coming across as ignorant or offensive to you. Not all GMOs are physically taking a gene from one specimen and putting it into another. Hope this was helpful. God bless!

Cross pollination is called hybridizing and is not the definition of a GMO, which is the introduction of dna from another species.

Thanks for that. I didn't know!

The USDA certifies animal based foods but it’s the FDA that certifies most vegetables. Just fyi

Truuuue. I saw a sign on a salon for "Organic Relaxers & Brazilian Blowouts." I think I still have a picture of me flipping the place off.

@@murraybritton6729 you're right lol I always confuse those 2 because my dad works for the USDA

Brookshire's grocery chain, until recently, on the aisle directory signs (up above the aisles,) used to proudly proclaim this aisle to have 'organic water'. Not kidding. I ALWAYS assumed that was water, with the poop not filtered out.

Now there's lab grown meat too! Which adds an ethicality layer now - we no longer need to kill animals at all

Ok chemist

Excellent Video! Excuse me for the intrusion, I would love your opinion. Have you thought about - Parlandealey Impetigo Goodbye Process (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now)? It is a smashing one off product for learning how to grow your own organic vegetables using hydroponics without the normal expense. Ive heard some decent things about it and my mate got astronomical results with it.

lol

dark matter? plebeian, condensed space time is the only real food

@@TBomb15 20 hours ago?

Right🌼🌺🌸 it is helpful.

Kirsten Paff yes

you nailed it!

You are bang on the money. I have several bathtubs full of worms and save about 20kgs a week from landfill by going through grocery shop bins. A bathtub can make 20 liters of organic fertiliser a day. The guys ignorant. i'd also day say he knows nothing about soil biology and what conventional farming is doing to it. I'm trying to educate people on how to set up worm farms. Wish i had the following this guy has. 6 million people composting would save a lot of landfill and emission.

Because people think any chemicals added by humans will give you cancer or some other disease

@@lucasbeck1391 what chemicals?

@@ethanrey98 Exactly, there isn't any

@@ethanrey98 anything

@@lucasbeck1391 what chemicals specifically?

Usda label.

there is, it is the worst food you have ever tasted, THAT'S organic!

@@ronaldmcdonald8303 organic good af wym

@@thespiritualenergy9816 ? what does af wym mean? If your having a go at me you should know that I used to go to a special needs college which only served "organic" food. Their food were the WORST food I have EVER had, by a LONG way. Their food were so bad that I once went for 5 days living off only tap water, yet all they could do was brag and boast! They were 100% recognised as an organic institution by the soil association and all that and their food made kept making me ill!

@@ronaldmcdonald8303 it wasnt good then , but in my opinion organic be hitting

I agree😍👍💚🧡

Would really like to see this.

this is also the main reason I eat organic meat. Makes me feel less bad knowing the animal had a pretty decent life

I buy exclusively organic milk because the cows have better lives.

You may find this website useful- www.cornucopia.org It has a scoreboard for different brands of eggs, milk, and yoghurt treat the animals.

Placbo

So you spray nothing on your crops? And you hand weed? Why wouldn't you go ahead and get the USDA Organic certification?

Thank you! More truthful and informative than the actual video!

All that, and the corn might be poisoning us (even if by tiny amounts). After all, most of the GMOs we're consuming are of the Roundup-Ready variety, and the glyphosate sprayed on the plants is a carcinogen.

Yep. This video was super superficial

This should be the top comment.

Not nearly as many. Sometimes pests do get into the building but the building itself can be treated against pests instead of the produce. Hydroponically grown foods can be grown with far fewer pesticides.

We have a green house that we grow peppers and tomatoes in. We aren't an organic farm by any means but we try to do our best to use as little pesticides and fungicide as possible. In our high tunnel, basically a small green house, we typically don't spray. However, that doesn't mean it's pest free. We still have issues with things like climbing cut worm and tobacco hornworms on the tomatoes. So in those cases, we can only hand pick the caterpillars off for so long. Once they get out of hand we decide that it would be economicly feasible to spray. And there are "organic" pesticides, just not very effective ones. Organic doesn't mean pesticide free, just limited use.

Yes. Just try and keep the aphids out! god dam aphids!

Yes you do, I do also work in a green house, and yes there are several practices that must be made by the personnel, to avoid introducing insects in to the green houses, but this is a really important thing anyone outside the farming industry must know : NOTHING WORKS FOR SURE AND IN THE SAME WAY ALL THE TIME. We are talking about living beings plants and insects and climate and several humans working with you, everything has a way to go outside of what you plan. Leave the greenhouse door open for 3 minutes, flies are suddenly in, someone was wearing a yellow shirt, suddenly insects, we had a week of raining, the chances of fungi jumps to the roof. See, this is the reason why greenhouse productions and managers must run preventive applications of chemicals, a green house is a closed system with the best conditions for plants to grow, but several other organisms can take advantage of that, which makes things happen quicker. There are benefits with greenhouses but you have to be careful of more things. Also not all crops and all regions and countries are ideal for greenhouse production

Manuel Aguilar Tirado Out of curiosity, are there smokers allowed to work inside of the green house? I've read that TMV can be transmitted by the body and clothing of people who smoke. The virus can even survive the high temperatures of a burning cigarette.

The power to welch people out of a good deal at the groceries.

He would have a lot of apeal

Turn water into wine

Whining

He's just Muscle Hank but purple.

So, basically you're saying everyone who buys organics are idiots?

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That's a fair point. We could also focus on more actual food production vs other applications such as corn ethanol, soy diesel and the like. That said I'm unsure if there'd be much wiggle room. The thornier question for me is that of what i perceive to be a strong overlap in organic consumers and those that are vegetarian. If you're going to need more manure, but want to cut down on livestock production, how's that gonna work?

DTcorn77 Vegetarians aren’t the problem, vegans are.

Dear Gentlemen, It turns out, one does not even need that much manure in fact. With a proper crop rotation between crops with different needs and benefits one can have similar outputs as conventional farms without much inputs. Likewise, the 25% drops is in fact in the first 2-4 years because of the practice changes, but after some more years and habits, the output goes back to the level of a conventional farm. This being said, I agree it's easier to do for vegetables than say for big wheat fields...

@@mathieudehouck9657 that's a negative. You cannot remove nutrients without replacing them. And while there are nitrogen fixing plants for example, that nitrogen is primarily used to produce said crop. There's not enough left over for the next year's non - fixing crop to be successful. And that doesn't adress the other nutrients at all

Sure, I didn't mean "we would never ever need nutrients". My point was more, organic often comes with more diversity and more diversity also grants you with using less inputs because you don't "wash" the ground every year the same way. But surely enough, we need to bring back part of what we eat.

I don't mind sick animals being treated with antibiotics. But in a lot of countries they are added to feed preventively or even to promote growth. I'm happy people are choosing to market and purchase meat and dairy made with as little antibiotics as possible so we can combat antibiotic resistance.

The big problem with anitbiotics isn't the effect on the meat.. its the effect on the environment, and in particular the antibiotics that don't get absorbed when eaten or otherwise make it out into the wild have been a large part of fueling our current concerns over antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria.

No antibiotics doesn't mean no proper veterinary care. It does, however, mean that they're not pumping antibiotics in their feed and keeping them in unsanitary conditions where disease would spread like wildfire without antibiotics. Because, y'know, they aren't using antibiotics.

Its not about the meat if we keep givig animals antibiotics then bacteria strains will become resistant and screw over humans a good question is how much does your pets need antibiotics not a lot because they get proper rest space and activity so if animals got treated right we would have less antibiotic resistant strains also animals would have a better life

@Dream Delirium they dont get sick?Looks like your logic is poor!Like every living thing they too get sick,especially in the first few days.They get diarhea and die if not treated with antibiotics.Later on they can get pneumonia and die if not treated,list goes on and on!How do I know?I live on the farm,and even tho our chickens are kept free range and spend most of the time on the grass,they still get sick.The world is not a sterile place,not sure if you noticed that yet!

Ever hear of McDonald’s?

Oooh. I totally wanna try an MRE now. For science.

Wouldn't say they are the most healthy things. They work for soldiers or highly active people, but chances are the average person couldn't fully utilize an MRE properly and it would for sure be an excess of calories. Not to mention sodium designed to replace lost sodium from sweating, etc.

@@DoYaLoveMeh89 you have a point there. I was just under the assumption that people would follow the advice of one a day for civilians, because a single one has all the nutrition you need in a day. Even if you had ramen to replace other meals, it would still be cheaper per day than McDonalds for a decent meal in my area (surplus stores sell at $60 for 12 MREs).

If you only eat mre's please make sure you're taking a laxative. They'll constipate you.

If you ask me it's better than working 16 hours a day so I can survive in the woods. That being said the easiest way to live is to buy into the system just enough to get out of it what you need and contribute to it what you can. Don't try and keep up with the Joneses, don't shop on Amazon. Avoid debt

@@treaf7453 they are a monopoly, bad for the environment, treat workers poorly, target and kill small businesses, destroy millions of extra products weekly instead of donating them to charity & are all around a horribly toxic company. Research them if you want to learn more

You need so many acres around you that are spray free to claim that your produce is organic. Sprays and seeds drift.

You hit the nail on the head! You put it very simply and where anyone can understand the facts of the matter. Some people just don't get it.

Yes this video is good👍😍💚🧡💛🌼🌺🌸

yes I agree

Charles Bosse Amen!

yeah... but if you think about it, better to have your corn grow a bit bigger than have a poop dump somewhere (but its heavily processed so it is safe.)

Yes. The overriding problem with organic agriculture is overall substantially lower yields. Switching to organic would mean 100 million more acres would be ripped from nature to grow the same amount of food. Plus there is not enough manure if all organic was done. The solution is for organic to come into the modern world of safe, low impact synthetic pesticides and modern fertilizers to compliment manure/compost. Heresy I know. Perhaps these links might help clarify. Regards. www.forbes.com/sites/stevensavage/2015/10/09/the-organic-farming-yield-gap/#59d862f75e0e fafdl.org/blog/2018/02/07/there-is-not-enough-manure-sustain-agriculture/ geneticliteracyproject.org/2015/03/16/beyond-the-romance-of-organics-6-ignored-sustainable-farming-practices-that-organic-proponents-should-embrace/ geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/04/05/usda-annual-report-pesticide-residues-food-well-amounts-dangerous-humans/

I love your thinking here. Great question.

Organic is unsustainable. If the whole world switched to organic tomorrow, approximately 2 billion people would starve from the deficit in food production.

What kind of GMO strawberries have soy proteins? I can't find any information about them.

the real issue.

Unfortunately they don’t publicize that info anymore and I can’t even get it from my allergy doc. But basically just strawberries. There isn’t really a “type”. You can look up “GMO insect resistant crops” it’s all pretty cool.

Theyre looking into GMOs that reduce allergens in produce as well so maybe in the future soy will be ok for you to eat

christine the TLDR is this: poorly done scientific study says their bad, overwhelming majority of studies says they're safe, people only listen to the bad one and spend the fear mongering, policy makers and law bringers listen to the fear mongers, company trying to feed a growing population gets sued.

Yeah, pretty much what Logan said. The LD50 of glyphosate is higher than that of table salt, and despite some questionable claims, there's no solid evidence that it's harmful in lower doses anyway.

Non-Organic & GMO food has poisonous insecticide (bug spray) called glyphosate sprayed on it. Which has recently been found to be cancer causing (For your own PROOF Search Google for "45 cereals glyphosate" and pick your favorite new site) Saying there is no difference between organic and non-organic for you health - is like saying there's no difference to your health if you were to add a drop of arsenic to your meal each day or not. Of COURSE there is a difference. People can be poisoned with a huge does of poison and "die" right away or they can be slowly fed poison and "die" slowly over weeks or months.... then there is the extremely slow way to "die" of poisoning which is to eat foods sprayed with tiny amounts of pesticides taking many many years to show signs of poison (such as cancer).... ORGANIC technically has NO man made chemicals or toxic pesticides sprayed on it - the way nature intended you to eat it. GMO's are worse than non-organic because the plant itself may have been engineered to grow pesticides inside the actual plant itself (which can't be washed off). The truth is if you look at our history there were no real cases of "Cancer" until around the mid-1900's. This just happens to co-inside with the same time farmers began using DDT & Arsenic (Monsanto) to spray on crops as a pesticide. In fact I watched a documentary recently where this woman who grew up on a family owned & operated farm. Claims that her family was healthy with no history of illnesses for generations, children born were normal and healthy. Yet soon after they started to spray their crops with chemicals around 1938 on her mother who had always been consuming the food right from the farm continued to eat the food that was now chemically treated (trusting that the FDA etc had passed these chemicals as OK to consume in small amounts) she became pregnant soon after adding these chemicals to the crops - and she suddenly a woman who had a great history of birthing healthy children began giving birth to children with birth defects and other health issues. To her it was blatantly obvious what caused the diseases in her family (the introduction of chemicals to the food she was consuming) She made a documentary called "What's With Wheat?" to share this message with the public (in an effort to warn them people to eat organic) At one time arsenic was considered safe to consume by the "Government" then they said it was safe to consume "DDT" yet time after time they found many years later these "safe approved by the Government" chemicals where in fact poisonous & carcinogenic. So Monsanto's current glyphosate (aka Round Up) is yet another "FDA approved" chemical that is just the same toxic crap with a new name. Many people have a hard time believing the a fellow human being would purposely disregard evidence and facts about the dangers and side effects of using chemicals on foods we consume.... yes sadly that is the truth. However there is a reason why.....because the people who approve these chemicals are in the business of making money. And to them these chemicals mean huge profits. And the health side effects are merely a bonus to them. Why do I say a bonus? Well as I said they are in the business of making money and if they know that purposely tricking the people into consuming foods with side effects causing poor health & disease etc they can also generate more income via the whole Medical Industry - having to attend Dr's offices and fill prescriptions (aka the pharmaceutical industry) which is a 60+ Billion dollar a year industry in itself. So to the rich elite playing games with your health and tricking you into thinking consuming pesticides is safe - is only trickery to use you as a "cash generating machine" they get rich of your lack of education. And of course they use official channels like the "FDA" to convince you it's ALL SO SAFE... these people care NOTHING about your health unless it was to make them billions of dollars like your illness does. I always use this analogy (and I wish someone would make a video about this) but imagine I had two apples freshly picked from nature (no chemicals or pesticides on those) I placed them on the table in front of you and then took a can of bug spray/killer (Raid or whatever) and I sprayed one apple until it was dripping wet - I then rinsed that apple off and placed it next to the un-touched apple (No matter how much you wash it - it's more than likely going to still have trace amounts of bug spray on it). Now if I was to ask you which apple would you eat - do you know what your answer would be? I sure do. But that is EXACTLY what the non-organic farmers do - you just don't see it happen so you "assume" it looks just like organic.... but in this case what you can't see can & most certainly will harm you. You might not see it right away (like the "FDA" studies but that's part of the problem they approve these chemicals before giving them long term 10-30 year testing trials they simply can't wait that long to see if there are long term side effects not when there is so much money to be made by releasing it early) You might think it's not that bad it's just a drop of bug spray how bad can it be? Well remember this - an ocean is made of an accumulation of many drops over time - just imagine what it does to continually drop poison into your body day after day year after year.... it slowly builds an ocean of toxins inside your body....and over time it will damage your DNA.... (then again so will drinking alcohol - and who approves of alcohol and sells it to you? THE GOVERNMENT (The same people who approve these harmful chemicals to use on non-organic food) - but that's a topic for another time) If you are interested in more information about this post or any other related topic - feel free to comment - I have a vast array of knowledge which I can share - including videos (for example David Suzuki produced his own documentary explaining the dangers of GMO foods - of course the commercially funded networks which he works for would not fund a documentary putting GMO foods down because most food product commercials you see on those stations contain GMO's or are funded by Monsanto in some way or another promoting GMO foods)

Considering how many fruits contain arsenic naturally, bad example is bad. As for the rest, you seem to be a misinformation cow buddy. Might want to read the studies those news sites report on rather than the news article itself.

This is why I’d love hank to make a video on it..so much conflicting info!

If your solution to a problem is "people just need to be better people", it is usually a non-solution. "If people just drove better, there would be less traffic" for example :D

That would be true but in this case its not necessarily the shoppers who are avoiding the "ugly" veg as they aren't being provided the opportunity to even see them. A significant amount of produce is discarded during the sorted process after harvest because it is deemed not pretty enough for store shelves. Now, granted reintroducing this food to the markets would require re-training the shoppers to no care about that lumpy tomato over the hard smooth ball shaped one, but that is more to your point than my original comment was. :)

"Supplements"

"I'm sorry, do you have x-ray mutant sludge steaks? I've heard this 'organic' stuff has animal manure in it, and that's, like, barbaric."

Tricking hipsters? What a wild and new marketing idea!

"Come on man! No one's doing it yet!"

It is, and yet still it is often more economic to employ fertilizers to increase yields. This is why farmers do this in the first place...because it makes economic sense! The end result is often less energy used per hectare because of using these advanced tools. I predict over the coming years their will be a blurring between standard agro and organic as they both have up and downsides the other is starting to recognize. Things like crop rotation, understanding evolutionary pressure of pesticide use, ect... will help both sides develop better practices.

Oh, you're such a good troll. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dK__WF96F8I.html

The gym. No. And no.

Grape Man got him! *dramatic music*

Yes! I try to buy local as much as possible, and not just for food, even locally made clothing.

Yeah you have to read the entire package

The milk of grazing cows does taste better tho

@@Hromovlad1 im lactose intolerant.

@@brianjensen5661 well that sucks

It means those make up won't eating your face

It translates to no animal cruelty

I think the translator was going for vegan, tho cruelty-free seems to be the standard term in the US at least.

Probably a placebo

Flyberd you raised many cattle/pigs? I've been doing it for many, many years and it makes a big difference, that's why they're not allowed to use them with purebred Wagyu.

Well, animals aren’t as easy to modify as plants, plants you can just put some proteins in there and get your desired effect, animals are very complex compared to plants, with many systems that their bodies use. It isn’t easy to just change one thing in animals and not have some undesired effects

You should look at the definitions of these terms and that may well answer your question. Cage free means that the chickens were raised in a barn. Free range means that the chickens can go out side the barn into an enclosure that is usually about 4 feet wide.

A lot of times they just buy it from the store and resell it. It could be placebo. Do a blind taste test to make sure.

I totally agree, not all of them are doing it properly, but since I know these people and since I grew up eating a lot of fruits straight from the tree, I know how a plum for example should taste like (and the supermarket, even the organic one, tastes like nothing at all). Don't need a blind taste to notice because the difference is huge :) Like eating a tire vs eating something juicy and sweet :D

My stepmom grows food in her own garden now and the difference in taste is extremely noticable, much richer

Unorganic is not a word. Genius.

@@brianjensen5661 Actually I just checked. Unorganic is officially a word in Britain,dating back as far as 1779!