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Organic, vindicated

Organic milk is better than conventional

By Culinate staff
July 17, 2008

The news is in: Organic milk really is better for you, containing “significantly higher beneficial fatty acids, antioxidants, and vitamins” than non-organic milk. Can’t afford organic? Well, researchers found that the less chemical fertilizers, insecticides, and herbicides were used in the production of conventional milk, the more nutritious it was. Now you just have to find a dairy that isn’t organic but still doesn’t use chemicals. Happy shopping!

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1. by Farmer de Ville on Jul 20, 2008 at 5:38 PM PDT

It is amazing to me that there are still people out there that find this sort of thing to be even the slightest bit surprising. Probably the same ones that don’t believe in global warming...

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