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New rules<\/strong> proposed by the USDA<\/strong><\/a> (US Department of Agriculture) will allow<\/strong> US-certified organic<\/strong><\/a> food<\/strong> to be adulterated<\/a> with a list of 38 non-organic<\/strong> additives<\/strong><\/a> and other ingredients, including colours<\/a>, starches<\/a> and oils<\/a>.<\/p>\nHow organic is that?<\/p>\n
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Organic food<\/a> is becoming big business<\/a>. It is appearing in supermarkets<\/a> all over the world. The problem<\/strong> could be that producing<\/strong> organic food on a large scale<\/strong> is well, inconvenient<\/strong>, and rather too expensive<\/strong> as well.<\/p>\n Food colouring<\/strong> is purely for marketing purposes, and is not required in food anyhow.<\/p>\n The use of starches<\/strong> generally indicates over-processed<\/strong> foods. What’s wrong with using organic<\/em> minimally processed ingredients? If a manufacturer can’t do that, then they can’t produce credible organic food!<\/p>\n Oils<\/strong> are probably the most important<\/strong> of food ingredients when it comes to health<\/a>. High-quality organic oils is necessary<\/strong> to good health, where as poorly processed non-organic<\/strong> oils are bad for you<\/strong>. Oil carries more toxins than other food ingredients as a general rule.<\/p>\n One wonders if there will eventually be a list of 38 pesticides an “organic” farmer can spray on their fields?<\/p>\n <\/UL> What does certified organic mean? Less than it used to apparently, at least in the USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[33],"tags":[354,36,353,53],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nI think<\/B> that organic food should be pure and free from pesticides and other toxins, be good for the environment when produced, and healthy when consumed. What do you think?<\/B>