A crushing blow was dealt to the neo-hippie movement recently after a study by the British Food Standards Agency, examining food data over the last 50 years, concluded that the health value of organic food was neither greater nor significantly different from that of that which is considered non-organic. The announcement didn’t prompt the immediate shutdown of specialized grocery stores with monikers touting their earthiness, but nonetheless there are some immediate positive effects as a result of the report which has since been published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The study severely hinders your favorite restaurant’s ability to overcharge you for “organic Cobb Salad,” and you’ll no longer have to deal with that uppity hippie friend whose moral and ethical superiority is inexplicably linked to the fact that they “only eat organic.” Thank you British Food Standards Agency, we owe you one.
Ed Note: As an uppity hippy myself, I’m compelled to point out that even if the positive effects of organic food on the human body are negligible, the positive effects on the earth (and global warming) are not.
