Is organic agriculture “affluent narcissism?”

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Some of the devotion from consumers attains almost cult-like status, which is why aย recent articleย byย Stanford Universityย researchers that was dismissive of especial health or nutritional benefits of organic foods created such a furor.ย Perhaps the most illogical tenet of organic farming is the exclusion of โ€œgenetically engineeredโ€ plants โ€“ but only if they were modified with the newest, best, most precise and predictable techniques.ย ย Except for wild berries and wild mushrooms, virtually all the fruits, vegetables and grains in our diet have been genetically improved by one technique or another โ€“ often as a result of seeds being irradiated or genes being moved from oneย species or genus to anotherย in ways that do not occur in nature.
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