A guideline has been set with FDA regulations.
However, the focus is not on whether the food is grown to promote our health, but to limit the use of pesticides. Organic is often confused with Natural. We want food grown in it's natural state presuming that will make the food healthier. Certainly it helps to not introduce man made chemicals that are under suspicion of inducing a carcinogen. But we should never presume that organic means it is good for us.
This label does not automatically mean it is grown in an environment that will magically make us healthier.
I have spent the last two years talking to "Organic Certified Growers", asking them what fertilizers they are using? Where their water source is coming from? What packaging do they use to store the products? Where their seed source came from? What other crops are grown in the same environment?
Unfortunately they did not make the grade. Less than ten percent had any interest in raising healthier food other than they had eliminated the use of pesticides. Most believed they had a seed source that was not from a GMO source but none had investigated the source.
So the first lesson to getting on a healthier path is to realize organic is not an automatic sign for healthy.
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