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Organic food - hype or hope? | DW Documentary
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- There is growing demand in the western world for organic food. But do consumers always get what it says on the label? How can authenticity be verified?
Is organic food automatically healthier? Consumers are prepared to pay a significant premium for it. There are currently, however, no reliable tests for distinguishing organic from conventionally produced food. Farmers need to invest a great deal of time, energy and money to qualify as a producer of organic food. There is no proof, however, that organic food actually contains fewer contaminants than conventionally farmed products. There is no such thing as pollution-free food, and there are currently no tests available for reliably distinguishing between organic and non-organic food. That opens doors for lucrative labeling fraud, which in turn explains why there are far more organic eggs on the market at Easter than at any other time of the year. The statistics clearly suggest manipulation, but it is hard to obtain evidence due to the differences between the two production processes appearing to have little effect on the quality of the product. Irish dairy farmers, for instance, are not allowed to label their milk "organic" because the pasture land where their herds spend more than 300 days a year are treated with mineral fertilizers. Because cows are themselves bioreactors, however, the milk they yield contains no trace at all of fertilizer. On average, conventional Irish milk contains more omega 3 fatty acids and antioxidants than organic milk from Germany. The reason is the fodder; German organic farms may use only concentrates and silage as supplementary feed to increase milk output - which impacts negatively on the quality of the milk. This documentary looks at researchers who are studying potential ways of reliably distinguishing between organic and conventionally produced food. And that is no easy task. Nearly every foodstuff requires a specific test. But one thing is certain: organic farming makes a major contribution to human welfare - by helping to mitigate climate change, protect the groundwater, conserve nature and promote animal welfare.
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Mr. Hoffmann died this year, he was the father of a friend of mine and lived right around the corner. RIP!
How sad😭
How sad😢
Rest in Peace Mr.Hoffman
Why?? He looked so young
Was he pro- Organic ?
Around one half century ago, Robert Rodale conducted an experiment to compare organic tomatoes with chemically grown tomatoes. He gave fifty rural families two cases, (several kilograms), of tomatoes. One case was grown on compost, properly prepared, and the second case consisted of chemically grown fruit. With these cases of tomatoes, he also included a questionnaire regarding the qualities of the tomatoes, The questions were about appearance, colour, aroma, texture, keeping qualities, drying qualities and some other queries.
Mr. Rodale was surprised to find that every question was answered with affirmation that the organic tomatoes were superior in all respects, and the chemically grown fruit did not receive a single favorable answer.
As he was unsure what the reasons were for this overwhelming positive response for the organic tomatoes, he commissioned the University of Pennsylvania to analyze the chemical composition of both types. The investigation revealed that the organic tomatoes contained 1938 times more iron, 200 times more vitamin C, 14 times more vitamin A, and the dried organic tomatoes weighed twice as much as the chemically grown tomatoes, and also had many trace elements which were entirely absent from the chemically grown fruit.
One humus-grown tomato was sufficient to cure scurvy or anemia, whereas an entire case of chemically grown tomatoes could not do so.
Organic is not only for consumers, it's for farmers too..
1) Farmers health is important.
2) stopped slaving to few rich people , controlling seeds , and pesticides.
3) natural resources land and water
Couldn't agree more👍
Exactly! It seems there was no mention of that, or the names of companies, especially Monsanto and Bayer for example. It's not like DW, to be this "timid"...
Exactly, organic does not per se means it's more healthy then conventional agricultural produce. Only that it is made in a sustainable matter: No pesticides, industrial fertilizer so it means more that there is less impact on the environment. Of course there is the discussion that this way of agriculture can't feed the world. But 70% of agricultural land usage is made for growing fodder for animal feed.
but there should be uniform certification. I think there should be one body worldwide which labels products organic. because there are so many different standards that the whole purpose is defeated. Another video which I saw and if its results are to be believed claimed that a review of 240 studies shows there is hardly any difference in nutrition value and residual pesticides in organic foods versus conventional foods. Now that is a telling observation. If the cultivation and rearing process is so different there has to be a difference somewhere. The good point is that large agribusiness corporations are being dented but then different cash grabbers in form of organic producers are emerging.
People don't realize how important this is.
I'm also a science teacher and found out that in India and South East Asia,, chemical fertilizers are playing havoc with the health of the whole population but greedy political parties and fertilizer companies are hand in gloves. On the whole it was very informative piece of documentary. Thanks so much for uploading such a great video.
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This makes sense to me as to why I see so many birth defects in India
the best fertilizers i have used are ones I make myself. I use compost from organic waste and potash from ash I get from when I grill food. At least when i make my own fertilizers I know what is in them.
Instead of stamping "organic" produce, the stamp and associated costs should be delegated to those who insist on polluting our air, land, and seas with pesticides, herbicides, and antibiotics (biocides). Organic farming should be the norm, not the exception. Any "food" intentionally grown with poison should be clearly labeled with appropriate warnings.
I so admire farmers with integrity who actually care about the health benefits of their bio meat , eggs and produce.
Organic farming has no benefit.
“Someday we shall look back on this dark era of agriculture and shake our heads. How could we have ever believed that it was a good idea to grow our food with poisons?”
― Jane Goodall
Yes, those are wise words, spoken by Jane Goodall. It reminds me of how we've been smoking like chimneys, in the past, and now have come to an understanding of what it does to our health. Also due to poison in the tobacco.
Exactly Marian. First nations people always smoked tobacco and did not have addictions to the product. The additive chemicals made to produce an addictive quality have made them very poisonous.
That's stupid. The green leaves of a tomato plant poduces poison.. We just don't eat that part. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, Jane.
Jane Goodall is one of them. I don't believe we humanity will be here in the near future, those that will survive will be transhumanized, turned into cyborgs by the psychopaths in control that plan on being transhumanized into the gawds to rule this planet, like they always knew they could....research people, its literally a life and death issue.
Because the alternative would have been widespread starvation and death. We are out of control.
In the US they now give most chickens additives in the feed like marigold etc to make the yolks yellow and look like they are from grassfed hens when they arent. Also I feel like all the insects are disappearing. We used to have a lot many years ago but now hardly any except for fire ants.
Fire ants eat the larvae of fleas and ticks......but if u spray ur yards for all kinds of insects.....the more fragile larvae are destroyed and those fire ants will go in the chicken coops and eat the baby chics.....🤯.....
We USED to have "june bugs" all summer. Our chickens could hardly wait to get loosed in the morning to run out and eat beetles.
Alfalfa used to be planted and then turned under to FEED the soil for next years
Plants......fields were rotated with fields on a schedule to rest every 7 th year......all these things were put in place by God.
We NEVER do a service to mankind when we disobey these laws......and we destroy our earth.....😖
If customers don't show preference to yellower yolks then maybe this behaviour will stop. Sometimes it is us as the customers who created problems, unkonwingly.
Hens don't eat grass they're not a cow
they eat insects(or meat) and _forage_..
Insects here in Europe are also disappearing I was tryna tell people how my front garden used to be packed with wasps but no more since 2014-16 they completely gone now
They give them artificial coloring through the artificial food!
Although I eat organic, I'm all about choice. I want my food to be clearly labeled so that people can choose. If you want to buy a Tesla or a BMW or a Ford, you can do so since the cars are clearly labeled, but the food industry in the US and Canada doesn't want the consumer to know since labeling will be detrimental to their profits.
The national labeling law passed in 2016.
@@DukeGMOLOL - Feds passed a watered down version of a labeling law ONLY after Vermont passed one that was more restrictive. GMO industry has been fighting labeling laws since inception only to have a change of heart? What a joke.
Chemical infuse produced maybe cheaper in the long run , but the adverse health affects, the treatment cost and environmental cost will outweigh the cost of organic foods.
someone once mentioned that organic farming sans all the gmos and biocides could lead to food insecurity, it's just too expensive as well too little is produced. What really needs to be done is regulating the chemicals used in farming.
Yeah, we all live quite a lot longer than the "organic-only" Middle Age.
Bornok 3 the fact is, with all the sickness caused by contaminated food, the pharmaceutical companies are even happier. You often find many medical researches are hugely dependent on funding from food industries. They work inline with the governments to maximise profit.
Do you have any evidence for that claim?
One day, when I shared dinner with the family who's children were under my care in their home, we discussed the subject of organic food. The view of the parents was that it was too expensive. In the center of the table stood a collection of bottles with sauces, mayonnaise, all sorts of colors and flavors. Plus bottles with vitamins and supplements.
I pointed at these bottles and said "When I eat my dinner I don't have these on the table, for I don't need them, due to the food on my plate being full of nutrients, tasty as well. Without the need to add something to it. That's why I don't think that organic food is more expensive when you take these bottles into account. They're not the cheapest food products".
The parents were silent and I could feel them close like oysters. I've never repeated that statement again, for many young couples in our present day, don't want to lose face, due to a lack of emotional stamina and maturity. Children educating children. A status, a career, and a large friends-colleague-network are key, often. Not their health. Instant satisfaction, not looking farther than the length of their nose, as we say in Holland 😧
I’m in the US...I buy organic as much as I can and often buy organic store brands which are cheaper...I know organic foods are not pure but they are definitely better and I know I’m reducing the chemical load on my body...I also use chemical free plant based products such as African Black soap which cleared up my eczema, she’s butter, coconut oil etc for my skin and hair...I don’t consume as much dairy but only buy organic dairy which tastes richer and creamier...overall organic is the way to go and I don’t regret spending what I spend because I know what I’m getting...it was interesting to see how organic is heavily regulated in Europe as it is here but the use of pesticides are not heavily regulated...hopefully there is a dramatic shift towards organic farming where all farming is organic
You are right.
Watch the video of ppl getting caught selling non-organic food at farmers markets as organic!! Greed is taking over and has for too many years!!
i get annoyed when organic foods are the only ones I can find at a supermarket and they are usually twice the cost of what I normally buy. Unless I grow it myself or know the farmer who grew it personally I will always be suspect of the label.
@@laragreene8328 yeah. I saw that. Disgusting
@@boyar1978 taste better the organic ones?
My granny is 94 eat organic all her life, didn’t get any vaccination, still tends the garden, drive car, cook fresh every day and is the most healthy in the family
„Fresh is fresh!“
My granny also grew and ate organic food whole life....she died when she was 75...so below average, many medical conditions.
As much as we want convenience, we are suffering not just the quality of our food but also the goodness of our environment.. I learned so much from this.. Our everyday choices really does matter..
oh, it matter so much! If only people knew..
The attention we give to our health is equal to the attention we give to our food. I'm not saying that I'm better, choosing organic food as my diet, but it's interesting to find that 8 of my younger siblings all have had health problems, and I've never seen a doctor for health issues, since childhood, with the measles, and chicken pocks, or the flu. I choose organic food for 45 years and work on the land, in my garden and spend time in nature as much as possible. We've become so disconnected from the land and the living Earth, that we lose the clarity of our sensuous relationship with the elements, with living nature, and ignorance of a respect, coming from within, knowing that we're the Earth ourselves, nourished by her substances, air, water, and earth, bringing forth the food that we eat. Her unwavering love for us, her children.
I love watching DW documentaries, Pls do more.
Hi ZC, more than one a day...??? Stay tuned & enjoy!
everyday please upload new one .. i,m waiting ok
Their documentaries are all about the inexorable downward spiral of humanity. Nice to know what direction things are heading into anyway.
Hi Dimitri, you find us so negative? Not intended...
Countries in the world is contributing efforts very disproportionately to advance our societies,serious matters are addressed only by a few. Preferring something light with no worries? welcome to Hispanic world.
Excellent Doc -- I have used it in my ESL (English as a 2nd Language) class as a Listening and Writing assessment in Canada. Please upload more DW, amazing resources for Teachers.
Organic has no benefits.
DW has some very well done documentaries. Keep up the excellent job.
Ngbný
I also like their documentaries, unless when it comes to farming. They don't investigate plant-based diets as a climate solution and that is disturbing because it's actually the best thing we can do for each other.
and some very propaganded sponsored too...leider
@@SM-ih6dt what do you mean
Easy solution: Record the damaging elements before and after a season of conventional farming. Then make them pay for the cleanup of the damage. That will even out the price difference.
In Holland, newly arrived young ministers in government begin initiatives, in an attempt to make a change in the tax system, so that those who cause pollution by manufacturing products or process food and other substances in factories, are paying for it, as a form of pollution-tax where the pollution is happening.
Instead of a pricing mechanism where these costs are placed on the shoulders of the consumer. There are fierce debates now, with comments of small factory owners, who intend to leave Holland, due to their conclusion that this tax will bring the business to an end. I think that the Dutch government should finance alterations of machinery and mechanisms in factories, minimizing pollution.
people who make laws like that are voted out by people like me who support capitalism. Unless a person is intentionally harming the environment than they should not be punished.
@Iman Amatullah typical excuse by the hardcore capitalists. Play dumb and it's all ok. Dont think about the repercussions and they magically disappear.
I'm all for capitalism if done correctly. The problem is capitalism and some humans dont gel well because of the the fundamental flaw in humans... greed.
Iam here in Germany. Because of all the poison and pesticides we lost within past few years all our insects like bumblebees and bees or ladybugs. It‘s terrible. Instead I noticed an increase of ticks, or weird looking cockroaches.
This is so true. I see the same situation in Netherlands. Increase of ticks and decrease of bees. Very easy to notice when you look at your car. Many years ago the front bumper and window would be full of dead bugs, nowadays I have to search for bugs.
The weird looking cockroaches are stinkbugs. I hate them, they live outside and destroy gardens eating all the plants. Also in autumn they try to enter the houses to protect themselves from the cold and if you kill them they stink. Ew. They were imported from Asia.
@@irenerandazzo4206 thank you, Irene
@@dogsinheaven kein Problem.🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 Die wanzen sind ein große problem... mein Sohn hat ein mal so einer in der hand genommen und ist dursch die ganze wohnung gerannt. Her hat gestunken, seine Kleider haben gestunken, die ganze Wohnung hat gestunken. Ich sollte alles waschen. Die Wanzen sprühen diese Geruch wann die Angst haben oder sterben. 🤮🤮🤮🤮
I remember my ship's stay in Manzanillo, Mexico in 1980 for one very good reason, the steroid scandal of the beef industry. The men were developing breasts, women were sprouting facial hair, and 5 years old girls were reaching puberty. We were advised to stick to seafood as they were presumed to be safe. Seafood has gone the way of the meat industry as has the vegan produce. Is there anything really safe to consume these days ?
Big pharma is responsible and they are profiting by selling cures for the illnesses they cause in the first place.
I see a noticeable difference between factory farm eggs and organic eggs. The organic shell is thicker and the color of the yolk is a deeper yellow. They are also more flavorful.
They taste better?
Yeah they taste so much better the ones I get have a deep golden/orange colour lighter yolks have less flavour
Thicker shell? Deeper yellow? You've never had a freshly laid egg then huh? Lol
@@aia1190
Same goes for organic fruit, organic/grass fed milk, butter and cheese, as well as beef, pork and poultry.
@@famousbowl9926
Please...
i am thrilled that my Organic Gardens are focusing on 100% organic produce. thank you for this
What is really crazy is using chemicals is called conventional farming 🚜. Organic farming was the way people farmed for 1,000 of years.
I am a biologist and work on the biofertilisers for plants. These chemicals are truly horrible. They are developed and forced across the line to get approval to make money quick. Much of it remains in the environment and part of it is taken by plants and transferred to the user. Air, water, soil food, all contaminated because of these greedy huge companies. This is Europe in this video and they have the strictest laws. US is far worse, and Asia particularly Sought asia is just unimaginable.
"and then they were three" … Album title from the Genesis music group album in the 1970s … I took these music artists name album, not for the meaning of their lyrics here, but the meaning of our World human population in the future … a possibility ?! ABSOLUTELY.
M. Karbaschi , I thank you right from my heart. But the situation is scary ! 90% of the world’s population is oblivious of it. They’re just happy with ever growing consumerism destroying natural normalcy of life of all forms and shapes.
Southeast Asia? Em... Where a lot of fish fillet and farmed prawns come from. Yummy especially with all the chemicals adding to the flavour.
You're absolutely right. Most European countries are invested, and care for the welfare of their people.
As an American citizen, and others who visit only dealt with on a consumer, personal information based society. As the gentleman during a recent documentary. The US during the early process of organic produce the country had high regulatory requirements that farmers needed to meet. Because these foods could be placed on the shelf. It's not the case today.
So today, I dine a lot less on majority of the food. Europeans the cuisine is of a much higher standard. And you can taste the difference. Because they care for the people. Best regards, and watch what you eat.
Returning soil to organic is actually simple not complex ! It takes Ash. Cleansing decontaminating and rectifying.
Problems with pesticides take decades to become apparent - new 'safe' sprays continuously replacing old toxic sprays, until they too are found to be toxic.
Aerial spraying needs to stop - not just to prevent these chemicals on our crops, but also in the air we breathe.
Can you connect with me to help me reduce my use of pesticides next year? Come help me pull weeds in my farm yard and I won't spray them with herbicides.
I grow up in rural. My favorate meat is free-range organic chicken from my parents' farm. I can eat chicken every thing, every day. When I moved to big city for college, the free-range chicken was not available or very expensive. So I bought massive produce chicken in super market. The taste was awful. So even I love chicken so much. I barely eat them. Not only chicken, all conventional produces cannot compare to organic product. If you grow up eating organic food, you would find the non - organic foods tasteless. I see many restaurants in city scam customers selling conventional food as organic food price. But they can only lie the city people who never eat organic food. How sad
Well, organic produce in my opinion is F***ING TERRIBLE! I used to go to an only organic college and their food was REVOLTING. Yet all they could do was gloat! Their food was so bad that I once went for 5 days in a row living off only tap water it was that bad and it made me sick SO MUCH! I have also had organic food from a village called Botton and their food was rank too and it was organic! People like you can't help but brag and boast and have this imaginary better taste, it's all in your head! I MUCH prefer the healthier, fresher, tastier delicious conventional food to the stale, rotten horrible organic carp that people brag, boast and gloat about!
Organic food - hype or hope? is an extraordinary documentary! I truly did appreciate it so much. Thanks a lot for sharing! Keep it up!
Organic food makes about as much sense as marketing GMO-free salt.
@@wihamaki Oh, come now! We all expect our food to contain carbon!
I used to work for a farm in UK who was selling non organic products as organic.
Audio Enthusiast tell it to the police and record it to the newspaper and institutes that are capable of stopping this company and make these betrayers pay
Did you tell the Cops or did you just whimp out?
the red tractor has been caught out for labelling products that have been made with cruelty had been labelled as cruelty free
Did You report this farm? If You didn't, You're just as guilty as the farmer...
One more in depth documentary by DW. Fantastic Job, god bles DW team. Keep up the good work.
As I always say: the real organic food is what you produce yourself, when you know what you use, what you feed your animals. That's why I never eat( very rarely) eggs from stores, even from local farmers to sell as organic, because I know what our chickens eat and I know what is in their egg. We feed them wheat, corn, fresh grass, potato, fruits... and I know some farmers, organic farmers, feed their chicken some chicken food and only God knows what is in it.
Until the toxic cloud blows in from the surrounding farms
I was just gonna say that if the poison is in the air what can you do?
You feed them an unnatural diet try feeding them insects this is what they should be eating NOT too much "plants"
Not everyone is as privileged as you are to be able to have their own chicken
@@CatLevel Yes, I am lucky
Human's greed is a curse to this holy Earth 😭😭😭
Holy?
As a German and a vegetarian for over 25 years, I am happy this change happens, but I also know that you cannot feed a country of 83 million people on organic food. So let's just be happy for every little step made in the direction of improving the situation for animals. Every single one is a gain.
Unser Garten beliefert uns mit einem Großteil an frischem und regionalen Gemüse und unsere Hühner mit Eiern. Fläche wäre eh da.
Can't the organic farmers sue pesticide users for damage? Not only to the farmers crop, but the public in general?
NOPE, pesticides are 100% legal and I use lots of them. I want to sue organic users for making me sick!
Regarding eggs. In Japan, I enjoyed the highest quality eggs ever. Nice thick tall whites (not watery) and large deep yellow yolks. The eggs were also clean.
Japanese egg yolks are more orange in color.
While Japan might have good quality food , there plastic packaging is enraging and doesn't make sense.
Ban all pesticides, and all other toxic chemicals
cheers and thank you to all the good honest organic farmers......
Where I live, organic costs twice and sometimes 3 times as much as non-organic. If germans pay only 30% more they are lucky.
Only 3 times? Still lucky! During lock- down last year (2020) the local organic store had a price tag for string beans as $68 per kg while local supermarket sold the conventional ones at $7.99 / kg.
A healthy society doesn't generate money for the pharmaceutical industry.
I ask my daughter to show me her home work here in Colorado. She pulled out of her back jeans pocket a peace of paper that was folded at least 10 times. I was educated in Germany and my homework consisted of two booklets. One for how we configured the math and the other showed a clean well written one with no scribbles. I see the difference just by how home re modelers do a job.
It's worth the time watching DW documentaries. Good jobs 👌
Tnkq god we hv our own small backyard where we can plant our own vegtables for every season..🙇♀️
The elves have left these shores and we can only handle one Sauron at a time. So we do buy organic when we can. And pray.
The real sad thing is that many people who buy "Organic" genuinely want to do something good for the environment but instead only make things worse or move the damage elsewhere.
What's the point in doing crop rotation or using manure when you need to increase farmland by up to 50% to produce the same amount of food?
What's the point of refusing to use modern, efficient pesticides and instead using a massive amounts of general toxins that someone arbitrarily decided is "natural" and is therefore better?
What's the reasoning behind not using GM crops designed to use less water, need less pesticides and produce more on the land you already have?
Nuclear power to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels.
Development of lab grown meat to reduce pollution and animal exploitation.
Desalination instead of draining and damming rivers.
Genetically Engineered food to make our agriculture more efficient so we can reduce our footprint on the Earth, maybe even return unneeded farmland to nature.
Look up permaculture. If the soil is healthy, the crop will do better and you can plant multiple crops together... some of which naturally repel pest. Look up Joel Salatin he's been farming this way for 40 years.
Bravo KR.
Since eating mainly organic food, I've had less pain and sickness. The food industry has a lot to answer for!
This is where containerized or indoor farming will soon make a ton of sense especially when your produce is grown right around the corner from your local grocery store.
You might want to learn about mitochondria and how plants develop in soil through symbiotic relationships.
Growing indoors or in hydroponic systems goes against many benefits. A major one being carbon storage in soil.
Container farming requires a lot of energy to keep the parameters just right. Nature does that by default additionally yield is low
I buy organic for a variety of reasons. I want less chemicals in my food and I want to give financial support to farmers who are at least attempting to change the chemical dependency which is proving to be so damaging to our health and environment. Of course if these chemicals do not decompose for long periods of time it is even more important that we move in the organic direction as quickly as possible.
Who thinks organic food is hype? Maybe in 1980. But we’ve all been well informed steady since. It’s cost that limits appeal of organic foods. Food prices going up and belts are tightening.
I wish we had researchers caring about our health here in the US! I need to leave america...
But capitalism.
It's same every where..... Greeeeed
@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 no. Capitalism isn't the problem. Democracy is the problem.
goodbye chlorified chicken
then leave. goodbye
The more we grow our own foods at home the more we can stop financing these companies.
sure if you got money for the land.......or just stake out chunks of land, when/if the cops/government come you ya shoot them and eat em
facts
If I weren't homeless, I would have an organic garden. We grew more than enough raspberries and tomatoes when we didn't know what we were doing. It tastes sooo much better.
The British study must have been diluted by corporate researchers. Mad cow was a result of feeding the cows with rotten meat. I support organic farming 100%
If it's in the air, it's in your lungs !
I along with my family enjoy watching DW channel. please, keep going.
Dr Eric Berg gives best reason for organic. 🙏
Yes! If you ever travel to Romania, make sure you buy veggies from the local market (they are mostly sold by local farmers). If you see an old lady at the corner of the street selling eggs and milk outside her house, buy them from her. She farmed them. You'll not regret it
The same thing is the same in most Balkan countries
I grow my own vegetables and herbs in my backyard and front yard. It's all heirloom organic seeds. Every season, I save seeds to replaced the ones I've used. So I never run out of heirloom seeds.
I don't use any chemicals or pesticides. So it's all organic.
It's hard to trust foods from the stores nowdays because of marketing gimmick and tricks.
The only thing I don't have is my own chickens to lay pasture raised eggs because my home has a rule against raising chickens.
I'm saving money so I can buy a new house with lots of acres of land so I can raise my own chickens.
Pasture raised eggs cost about $5 to $8 for a dozen here. So it's quite expensive.
I also don't have my own cattle for beef. So I have to buy my grass fed Beef from "The Butcher Box", It's super healthy beef but very expensive.
For anyone who can grow their own vegetables and herbs at home, do it. It's worth it.
You're awesome
I'm thinking of growing my own herbs. I like shopping at Whole Foods since they have a hard stance against pesticides.
Were you not watching the documentary? Your food is not organic due to the pesticides sprayed by everyone else. I'm sure the labor and delicious food is worth it, but you're food is doubtlessly contaminated.
...sorry, but perhaps you should smell what's brought by the wind...one of these days you'll even have a Monsanto inspector saying that they found their seeds in your plants...
@@scottkennedy1615 less contaminated
Very enlightening to see people having so many people to look after their diet. It's important focus on basic necessities. Though hunger for higher efficiency in industries and farming is leading us to a unhealthy world for sure by all standards. One day it will overwhelm us.
Spray less, pay the right price for the food.
Ban the chemicals and put the animals back. If you rotate the animals with the crops they will feed the soil and keep it fresh and healthy and the soil will keep them healthy. That's always been the way it was. Until machines took over and toxins.
Farming (food production) should not be seen as a business but rather as a social service like education or health care and should be made subject to democratic discourse and accountability as to its methods...
We need organic food.
Hi, great documentary. Learning German culture and society is amazing with dw...
Amazing news Network. One request please make documentary on natural farming revolution in India. Natural farming is much better than organic....
Hi Rohan Pardeshi,
thank you very much for your big compliment! With regard to your request: There are no plans to make such a doc. But plans may change. Stay tuned & enjoy!
Organic doesn’t mean completely free of pesticides there are a number of chemicals allowed albeit restricted in labelling organic products
Nearly every store, workplace, and school is sprayed with insecticide which means eating organic is important to reduce load. Many homes are sprayed with insecticide which means absorbing it most of the day. People living in farm communties see health problems due to chemicals.
Organic farmers spray insecticides and fungicides on their crops.
Organic food is absolutely health in the future, absolutely not hype and that's hope
you are what you eat. thank you for sharing.
they go through this whole documentary without once mentioning the fact that the most at risk people, the poor, those with health conditions that limit their access and money, are essentially forced to buy half as much or organic is entirely out of reach. you can talk all you want about whats more sustainable or better or healthier but there's no amount of benefits to organic that will make millions of people able to afford it and still get enough healthy food.
This is really so true. 😭
If Leaders of Countries in this Beautiful Planet, have Real Integrity, Infomation and Intelligence this world will definitely be a better place in all aspects of life.
This is not fair, all farming needs to go organic, not some.
Azara Moon I agree
if you make everyone farm organic rather than conventional, the poor and lower middle class will starve. the amount of food produced is not enough to meet consumption... only the people who can afford the price will get to eat.
we would do better to regulate conventional practices in a way that prevents cross contamination, bring these kinds of issues to the forefront and resolve them, rather than vilifying one practice and putting another on a pedestal.
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@@amysmosquito but if there are several sources of organic food, that would also drive the cost down
@@jcm5404984 it will still be more expensive though, because there are simply more costs
Antibiotics by default wtf? Does this farmer know how they work.. I highly doubt it. This is why we are suffering resistance in farming. I am surprised Ireland does not yet ban antibiotics in the diet for healthy animals like other countries.
Sounds like tighter label laws are needed. And more AG inspectors to ensure everyone is following the labels.
It's clear to me that the quality of food, as in the absence of processing and chemical substances, is related to obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis. Living 4,5 years in Britain, as a Dutchy, I've witnessed the British population's health deteriorating fast. 40% percent of Britain's population is obese, including children under the age of 5. With a conservative government, ignoring to pay attention to education about food and prevention of a lifestyle that damages people's health and therefore a sense of wellbeing, it's not likely that this condition will improve. To me, the choice to choose one's own lifestyle, based on information, is key here. It seems that many British citizens live in a victim role, complacent and largely mind-controlled.
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There are lawsuits against them because they actually use lots of grain. Google it.
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Old people did had luxury of having good food atleast...now we have non organic veggie and meat(broiler,processed meat)....and a whole artifial pakaged food... no wonder we are developing so many illnesses never known to old man..
I buy Duchy because the vegetables and milk taste so much better.
I am glad Waitrose sells Duchy produce.
Please stop using chemicals on our food produce.
I live in the U.S. Went vegetarian due to inhumane conditions the precious farm animals have to endure before giving thier body to humans. Factory farming. It simply got too hard to find humanely raised animals.
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So if someone drains water run off onto my land I can sue and they have to change, why not apply the same principle for pesticide “Ron off”?
If a river running through your land is all you have, what do you do then?
I'm all for that
Not only on crops. If they are in the air, they are a toxin for people too. All the things have to be reconsidered in an inclusive, complex way.
In the USA, if seed or anything from MONSANTOs crop winds up in your soil and on your crops within 1/4 mile, MONSANTO owns it, owns you. Organic farmers have taken MONSANTO to court and lost. If not mistaken, the 1/4 mile limit may be the result of that.
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The costs might well be 30% different, but the prices for the goods are much (!) higher, than just 30% or the costs and that is ridiculous.
I was raised on a farm ! There's 640 acres per square mile ! So if plant wheat on that 640 acres and get a harvest of say 200 bushels per acre that's 128,000 bushels ! In the last couple of decades I've seen miles and miles of farm land covered by houses and streets ! While the middle of cities is abandoned left to fall apart ! So I don't think that low production over of is just because organic farming but also because of farm land is being taken away for houses and streets !
Great documentary.
This topic made be wonder how folks over there determine the label Organic.
Here in the U.S.A; organic is a big thing and we have so much farmland to grow things yet it's tough cause of the use of chemicals and GMO products-Monsanto and Dow.
Hopefully more of this will be made or subject involving farm raised foods, cause they're the ones feeding the world.
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Tien Foen we are in the USA and we believe in total organic production
Small scale largely female run farms actually provides 2/3 of worldwide production.
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We need healthy farm such as this.
It's not the farmers who should be reformed but the pesticide manufacturers but we all know that's a never ending battle where we can only lose.
I buy as much organic as possible and try to avoid buying the other
There are currently, however, no reliable tests for distinguishing organic from conventionally produced food
i buy whatever costs the least
Hmmm, food with poisons, or without...? Tough one.
It is a tough choice: pay through the nose for organic or get conventional. And anyway, organic still comes with some chemicals on it. Actually, how much choice do we have? Really have?
Pyrethrum is approved in the U.S. for use on certified organic farms. Inside Pyrethrum are components called Pyrethrins are applied broadly as nonspecific insecticides. Bees have been shown to be particularly sensitive to pyrethrin, with fatal doses as small as 0.02 micrograms. Due to this sensitivity and pollinator decline, pyrethrins are recommended to be applied at night to avoid typical pollinating hours, and in liquid rather than dust form. Pyrethrins delay the closure of voltage-gated sodium ion channels in the nerve cells of insects, resulting in repeated and extended nerve firings. This hyperexcitation causes the death of the insect due to loss of motor coordination and paralysis.
There is always all sort of natural poison in any plants. That is how they fight against certain pest.
from the way people produce people and their economic strength/weakness, you'd know the answer.
for the majority, it is pretty obvious: whatever viable.
be the majority or be better? tough one.
@@davidjohnzenocollins Allan Savory has the answer to the questions but no-one ever seems to listen to him. He's been saying the same things for decades.
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Farmers using pesticides ought to pay a ton of money for each ton of pesticides used
I agree, organic farmers should pay a ton for the pesticides they spray.
Great documentary ....hope to watch more about organic food .
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So true that real organic food is hardly possible today. On the other hand lots to be done on conventional farming/production too.
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Am being a medical oncologist I see a alarming rise of people for my consultation which is not really good
But we turn a blind eye bcoz not everyone can buy all the time
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Watching this for a class assignment and I can't say I'm disappointed.
By choice or was it chosen by the teacher?
Or school