Monday, September 23

 
Certified Organic: What's It Worth?

Need an all-in-one guide to buying organic foods? This isn't exactly it, but it's close, and it's from Newsweek's cover story this week on MSNBC.com . It doesn't endorse organic 100 percent, but it makes a stronger case for buying certain kinds of organic foods over others. ("organic" is a little bit of a misnomer here; isn't all food organic? But it's used to mean plant foods grown with minimal inputs such as chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, and products from animals raised without synthetic hormones and antibiotics and fed only organic feed.) It's a well-written, evenhanded treatment of a story that all too often evolves into emotion versus efficiency.
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