Is organic food a hoax?

We're seeing evidence of that in the current effort to discredit and diminish genetically engineered foods and to attack their defenders in the scientific community. read more

Labels have become a problem: Organic isn’t much about food at all. It’s now an image and testament to a lifestyle, a virtuous story about the person whose kitchen it fills. People choose it because they value romanticized notions of health, quality, the natural world. read more

But organic foods are considerably more expensive, leading many people to ask whether the benefits are worth the cost, or for that matter, even measurable. A recent controversial study out of Stanford University concluded that fruits and vegetables labeled organic were, on average, no more nutritious than their conventional counterparts. read more