Another reason to go organic
Research presented at the Great Lakes Regional meeting of the American Chemical Society illustrates what organic grocers have been saying all along, but with no real proof to back it up. The nutritional value of food might just be more affected by the use of conventional farming techniques than thought. It seems that Theo Clark and some undergraduate assistants have shown that organic oranges, although smaller in size, contain 30% more vitamin C than oranges grown using conventional techniques. He thinks that the difference might be due to the use of nitrogen based pesticides on conventional farms that could induce the cellular uptake of more water, therefore diluting the cellular environment. The oranges might be juicier, but that juice comes at a price. Read more
here.
And, listen in tomorrow... we will be interviewing the author, Katherine Ellison, of a recently published book entitled "
The New Economy of Nature: the Quest to Make Conservation Profitable". The book, co-authored by Stanford ecologist Grethchen Daily, discusses 10 case studies from around the world in which people are attempting to redefine notions of the value of the environment in an effort to make conservation a viable alternative in the global ecenomy. The authors will be holding a book-signing this Friday at the Avid Reader in Davis, CA.
current science news posted by Kirsten at 6/03/2002 11:19:00 AM
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