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A pox on organic food

With another hat tip to MeFi comes this great piece on the evils of organic food. The bare facts? Organic food is significantly more likely than industrial food to give you E. coli (both outbreaks last year were traced to organic produce), contains exactly the same nutritional value with nastier pesticides, and takes up far more undeveloped land.

Money quote: "If you demand organic soybeans, then you should have the courage to stand up and say that you don't care whether black and brown people around the world have enough to eat or not."

Other great articles: "No Blood for Oil" (fact: after Saudi Arabia, very little of oil comes from Iraq or hostile Middle Eastern countries); Chiropractic (bogus to the extent that it departs from modern medicine), SUVs (fact: most are mechanically identical to normal passenger cars), wheatgrass juice (fact: ick).

The author of the site, Skeptoid, is also something of a religious skeptic, and that comes through in his posts devoted to religion. So just don't read those if you don't like that.