The Real Reason The Stanford Organic Food Study Was a Fraud

Posted by Heartmind _Featured_, Food, Nutrition Friday, September 14th, 2012

(NaturalNews) Whether it’s vegetables or humans, you create two matched groups that are as close to each other as possible in all relevant ways, and then you expose them to different protocols and record what happens.

For example, Washington State University did the right thing with strawberries. John Reganold and his colleagues took the same strain of berry and planted it in two plots of earth right next to each other. One patch was conventionally grown (with chemicals) and the other was raised organically.

Same soil, same weather, same strain of berry. The result? The organic strawberries had higher nutritional content.

In the recent infamous Stanford study that is raising a ruckus, the conclusion was: conventional and organic food are nutritionally equal. But no planting of food was done. No study was done at all, in fact. It was a review of prior published studies, and there is no indication that those prior studies handled crops the correct way, as the Washington State strawberry researchers did.

Therefore, it’s not science. It’s perhaps cogitation, contemplation, comparison, but it’s not science.