The organic food thing

I really didn't see anything factual in that article. It was mostly appeals to arbitrary authorities, for example acceptable EPA "exposure limits."

The EPA has a lot of arbitrary and capricious guidelines. Throwing them out there as the final authority is meaningless to me. They will tell you how much radioactive material from a nuclear plant accident or dirty bomb attack is OK for you, for example.

Personally, I want no part of synthetic chemicals (that we can't know for sure whether or not they are harmful) near my food if I have a choice, the same way I don't want to live in a place with radioactive material in my environment.

Appealing to the EPA as an authority about what is and isn't OK doesn't really make me feel secure about my food having synthetic chemicals all over it.

 

I didn't link to anything. And I didn't say anything remotely close to the bunch of straw in your post. Nothing about immune systems, calcium retention or veganism -- in fact, none of those things have anything to do with the topic of the thread or the story Dick linked to.

What you quoted from me simply said, "Nobody has any clue whether synthetic chemicals on your produce are bad for you. Not the woman who wrote that article, and not the EPA, which is the authority she largely appealed to. Telling me that the EPA has arbitrary acceptable limits personally doesn't give me any confidence that eating something that was sprayed with chemicals isn't worse for me than something that wasn't."

 

A "vegan lifestyle," adds nothing to a thread about whether organic foods make sense or not.