What peer reviewed journal was this study published in? I do not see one sited.

Sam, Chicago, USA

It always amuses me that the people championing organically-produced food are always, virtually without exception, the same mystic mumbo-jumbo peddlers and new-agers - the snake-oil sellers with their petulant rejection of the need for scientific evidence to prove their claims - as evidenced by all of the anecdotes based on personal experience in the above comments.

Next they will be trying to tell us that homeopathy, reflexology and reiki work!

Oh, yes, they already are.

Where is the evidence - no really, where IS it?

Dave Berry, Liverpool, UK

Whatever the opinion's are about the most beneficial and nutritious methods of growing food be it by experts or otherwise an important fact is that the residue from chemical spraying remains in the fibres of that food sprayed.
Doubters of proper organically grown food should take the time and read "The Secret Life of Plants" by P.Tompkins and C Bird.
G.J.C....Australia.

G.Crabb, Coomba Bay, NSW Australia

The USDA plans to nuke all our raw produce to make it safer. What do you suppose THAT will do to the "superiority" of our organic produce? Seems our government would rather have us unhealthy.to keep Big Pharma and Big Medicine in business.
Su

Su, Belfast, USA/NY

They are trying to make supplements illegal. If they find out that organic food makes folks healthy and possibly live longer, it will be banned next! Everyone needs to know about codex alimentarius! And how to easily grow your own food with square foot gardening.

kw, Virginia

Kathleen, Amherst, Virginia

If anyone cares to judge for himself, the degree to which organic food advocates are lacking in basic science and open-mindedness, simply observe how they have dismissed out of hand all of the hundreds of studies finding absolutely no superiority of organic food over conventional food, whether safety, taste or nutritional benefit... claiming the results were biased, or invalid, or in need of confirmation, or the end result of vast conspiracy... and then leap on the occasional positive study with the instant and unqualified conclusion that, "It's official: organic really is better."

Talk about a blind bias. Talk about a double standard. This explains why Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace stated, "Organic is not based more on beliefs than facts -- it's a religion, not a science."

Michael Downey, Toronto, Canada

If anyone cares to judge for himself, the degree to which organic food advocates are lacking in basic science and open-mindedness, simply observe how they have dismissed out of hand all of the hundreds of studies finding absolutely no superiority of organic food over conventional food, whether safety, taste or nutritional benefit... claiming the results were biased, or invalid, or in need of confirmation, or the end result of vast conspiracy... and then leap on the occasional positive study with the instant and unqualified conclusion that, "It's official: organic really is better."

Talk about a blind bias. Talk about a double standard. This explains why Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace stated, "Organic is based more on beliefs than facts -- it's a religion, not a science."

Michael
Toronto

Michael Downey, Toronto, Canada

Please, no more nonsense about all food being organic. By that def from chemistry, gasoline is organic, too. Drink up!
Lucky Sacramentans have an organic Co-op, but I daily see Americans wolfing down garbage, some imagining govt pols protect us from corporations that finance them, others (often smokers) shrugging miseries off as inevitable, so why bother? Some of you are doing better than that-- don't let that benefit erode! Keep the UK and the EU honest, and support ecological efforts by otherwise venal pols just as long as their acts match their words. (Sarkozy comes to mind.)
As for needy 3rd world nations, I recall a study showing all African nations but Mauritania could feed themselves, but have heard the World Bank piper and stressed exports...to you! And numerous studies of famine that coexisted with a thriving food export trade.
I haven't read all comments; maybe one had the tired line that local uses more energy than NZ imports. Yeah...and I'll let you buy that bridge cheap!

P E, Sacramento CA, US

I could use a copy of the study, too!

How much sense does it make to realize that plants can only manufacture nutrients when they have the raw materials (the correct minerals) with which to do so? No minerals in the soil = no vitamins in the plants. Wow, is that hard to grasp? Did they think to convince us that the plants magically sucked those minerals out of the air? We aren't all that gullible; we knew all along that organic was better, at least as long as the farming methods continue to put all of the trace elements back.

Lorri, Washington state,

agnes, you're awesome!

c, ny,