Is organic food overrated?

Organic junk food is still junk food. Not only do people tend to overestimate the nutritional benefits of organic foods, they also overestimate the risks of pesticides. People think that as many people die from pesticide residues on conventional food as die in motor vehicle accidents in the United States. read more

There it was, plodding across the CNN news crawl, seven words, one million implications:"Organic food no healthier than regular food." The item referenced a study released in late July by the Food Standards Agency (FSA), an independent government bureau in the UK. read more