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Thank you *NM* motionsickness Send a noteboard - 10/12/2009 03:01:32 PM
Not to go down the whole list, but the first two stick out, vom saal has been called into question as biased, the science has been heavily challenged, etc. Salatin is not a scientist to my knowledge, and since he himself is finacially based on selling meat that he just called superior, this would be as objective as getting tobacco risk info from people who sell cigarettes or nicotine patches.

I'm afraid that a very great deal of these simply represent a bias from the interested parties who favor organic farming which has become a fairly large business in it's own right and has begun including much science in it's arguments which are at best weighted, unconfirmed, or even pseudoscience to justify the purchase of their more expensive products. Many of the claims from that industry simply do not pass muster.

Edit: Let me add, I've no objection to organic food and often there are some apparent benefits, but it is a business and business is business and a lot of the claims they make aren't really supported and tend to be 'Some experts believe this may...' like the sort of stuff you see on herbal remedies with the little asterisk and 'statements not evauluated by the FDA'.
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/food: The 7 foods experts won't eat - 10/12/2009 01:04:04 AM 1013 Views
Sheesh. - 10/12/2009 01:16:03 AM 705 Views
Joel Salatin is my hero. *NM* - 10/12/2009 02:46:41 AM 461 Views
I really have to challenge many of these - 10/12/2009 03:36:05 AM 655 Views
And that is fine. Read the opening paragraph. It's not a scientific study. - 10/12/2009 02:29:53 PM 680 Views
Nevertheless... - 10/12/2009 03:14:19 PM 672 Views
Omg, you are such a party-pooper! - 10/12/2009 05:26:18 PM 602 Views
LOL, I actually am not the bane of all new ideas - 10/12/2009 06:19:06 PM 610 Views
but ag degrees and education make us biased, didn't you know that? - 10/12/2009 06:28:44 PM 622 Views
Re: but ag degrees and education make us biased, didn't you know that? - 10/12/2009 07:01:14 PM 664 Views
hot dogs are one of those things that ARE just horrible - 10/12/2009 07:08:09 PM 672 Views
Eeeeyuck - 10/12/2009 07:18:10 PM 692 Views
Pft, so you say. - 10/12/2009 08:19:00 PM 658 Views
omigod cheese didn't you read that bit about ARTIFICIAL HORMONES?!?!?! - 10/12/2009 06:22:11 PM 561 Views
You wouldn't believe the dangers involved in cheese - 10/12/2009 07:08:48 PM 618 Views
did you know instead of bacteria... - 10/12/2009 07:15:15 PM 587 Views
I'm pretty sure I just took a pill with about 500 million bacteria in it. Is that bad for me too? - 10/12/2009 07:18:29 PM 486 Views
dihydrogen monoxide should not be ignored!! - 10/12/2009 07:20:59 PM 652 Views
T'is my civic duty - 10/12/2009 07:30:42 PM 639 Views
he's one of the mega-nerd professors who has a grudge. - 10/12/2009 07:41:19 PM 572 Views
Probably not even a trekkie either - 10/12/2009 07:53:17 PM 559 Views
LOL, just found this - 12/12/2009 10:24:59 AM 691 Views
Potentially fatal, you know salmonella is a bacteria right? - 10/12/2009 07:40:54 PM 601 Views
Thank you *NM* - 10/12/2009 03:01:32 PM 400 Views
Hmm. - 10/12/2009 04:52:48 AM 687 Views
You don't eat apples? - 10/12/2009 05:13:56 AM 657 Views
I do, but not the ones he's talking about. *NM* - 10/12/2009 01:04:16 PM 308 Views
Health aside, farmed Salmon just tastes a bit horrible. - 10/12/2009 11:57:34 AM 638 Views
that would depend on how it has been farmed. *NM* - 10/12/2009 01:08:33 PM 284 Views
Probably. I guess I've just been unlucky. *NM* - 10/12/2009 01:31:15 PM 336 Views
Meh. - 10/12/2009 12:19:18 PM 476 Views
See what I said to Isaac. - 10/12/2009 02:33:24 PM 637 Views
I'm always a bit dubious on food health scare stories - 10/12/2009 12:34:29 PM 485 Views
Remember when tomatoes gave you cancer? *NM* - 10/12/2009 05:31:50 PM 310 Views
Yeah.... ah, good times *NM* - 10/12/2009 05:36:10 PM 293 Views
Hm. I actually refuse to eat non-farmed marine fish of any kind. - 10/12/2009 01:24:26 PM 714 Views
Rod caught tuna - 10/12/2009 05:37:42 PM 585 Views
There aren't enough tuna left. - 10/12/2009 06:25:19 PM 603 Views
aren't there a few species that are actually better to harvest? - 10/12/2009 06:30:42 PM 523 Views
If you catch them with rods, I suspect it is sustainable. - 10/12/2009 08:17:49 PM 741 Views
who the hell wants to fish in the middle of the ocean?? - 10/12/2009 08:29:43 PM 592 Views
You'd totally have to be on a boat or something. - 10/12/2009 09:55:20 PM 557 Views
I love deep sea fishing. *NM* - 10/12/2009 11:50:39 PM 325 Views
weirdly enough, i don't get sick on boats. - 10/12/2009 11:54:34 PM 624 Views

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