{"id":687,"date":"2006-10-03T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/wpblog\/2006\/10\/organic-milk-isis-not-healthier.html"},"modified":"2014-11-29T12:56:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T11:56:04","slug":"organic-milk-isis-not-healthier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/2006\/10\/organic-milk-isis-not-healthier.html","title":{"rendered":"Organic Milk Is\/Is Not Healthier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you paying attention will have seen the quackometer spot these two stories from the past few weeks in the Daily Mail:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/health\/healthmain.html?in_article_id=402701&#038;in_page_id=1798&amp;ito=1490\">Organic milk &#8216;better for a healthy diet&#8217;<\/a><br \/>29th August 2006<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=406155&#038;in_page_id=1774&amp;ito=1490\">Organic milk is not healthier, says food watchdog<\/a><br \/>21st September 2006<\/p>\n<p>So, just a few weeks apart and completely different slants. As an act of kindness, to save you from the pain of reading these articles and deciding between them, I have condensed them into one easy-to-read organic milk heath scare\/health promotion story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family:arial;font-size:130%;\">&#8216;Experts&#8217; say Organic Milk Is\/Is Not Healthier<\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">The Daily Mail<\/span> <\/span><\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/uploaded_images\/milk.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/uploaded_images\/milk.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Organic milk has more\/fewer benefits than standard milk and official advice should reflect this, &#8216;experts&#8217; have said. A succession of studies in Britain and around the world have found higher levels\/the same level of vital nutrients, particularly omega-3.<\/p>\n<p>They want the FSA to change\/keep its stance on organic milk, and &#8220;recognise that there are differences\/no differences between organic and non-organic milk&#8221;. The decision is a body blow\/boost to organic dairy farmers, who have seen a boom\/drop in sales on the back of a belief that it is healthier\/more expensive, particularly for children\/cats.<\/p>\n<p>Such a pronouncement would have been a huge promotion\/blow to the standing of organic agriculture and, particularly, organic milk. A spokeswoman for the Government said she could not say whether the research would alter their position as they needed time to examine the evidence, unlike the reporters of this newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>The findings have pleased\/upset organic farming supporters as well as the scientists involved in the study. The Soil Association, which promotes organic farming, praised\/challenged the conclusions whilst talking its usual pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo.<\/p>\n<p>Publicity for this research has driven a remarkable boost\/nose-dive in sales, with consumption up\/down a staggering 50per cent in the past year. Some supermarkets, such as Tesco, have resorted to importing\/exporting supplies from\/to Europe\/deep-sea dumps.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Melchett, at the Soil Association, said: &#8220;The scientists never\/always suggested that organic milk was a substitute for eating oily\/battered fish. It is not, but there are significant\/no nutritional differences. &#8220;Knowing that, we believe that people are bright\/gullible enough to make up their own minds on whether organic milk is better\/more expensive for them.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/><strong><span style=\"color:#000099;\">Reader comments (8)<\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">8 people have commented on this story so far. Tell us what you think below.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I completely disagree with all these so called experts findings. I buy organic milk and many other products because I do not want plutonium in my system. We all know farmers spray dangerous radioactive waste on their crops and I don&#8217;t want my family mutating.<br \/>&#8211; <strong>Anne, Cambridge<\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/>I am forced to drink non-organic milk as it is cheaper and it is all I can afford after loosing my job to an invasion of polish plumbers.<br \/><strong>&#8211; Dave (ex Heart Surgeon), Nuneaton<\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/>Its common sense that organic milk is healthier. Non-organic cows are made of concrete with very low milk productivity.<br \/><strong>&#8211; Simon, Milton Keynes<\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/>Since drinking only organic milk, I have seen a remarkable improvement in my childrens&#8217; IQs and school marks. Unfortunately, they are now so clever, they can now see their parents are half-witted morons for buying this deeply offensive and ignorant newspaper.<br \/><strong>&#8211; Mathilde, Hounslow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another plot by Tony and his Euro-cronies to make us drink immigrant organic milk. The cost of organic milk is just another of Gordon&#8217;s stealth taxes designed to punish us for being English.<br \/><strong>&#8211; Bartholemew, Barking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Top Tip. Save money by buying non-organic milk and then performing inexpensive Reiki over your fridge each morning. Reiki has been proven to &#8216;energetically&#8217; remove pesticides from milk as well as any sane thoughts in your head.<br \/><strong>&#8211; Karen, Manchester<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have recently started buying organic milk because I find it makes a better cup of tea &#8211; and a creamier bowl of porridge &#8211; than supermarket-sold &#8216;fresh&#8217; milk. Of course, I have proven this under strict randomized, double-blind procedures because I am fully aware of my own capacity for wishful thinking, confirmation bias and self-delusion.<br \/><strong>&#8211; Ray B, Stockport<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Drinking organic milk does not produce mucus and allergies &#8211; as long as it is organic monkey milk.<br \/><strong>&#8211; Spikey, Glastonbury<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Those of you paying attention will have seen the quackometer spot these two stories from the past few weeks in the Daily Mail: Organic milk <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/2006\/10\/organic-milk-isis-not-healthier.html\" title=\"Organic Milk Is\/Is Not Healthier\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,1],"tags":[49,119],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organic","category-uncategorized","tag-daily-mail","tag-organic-quackery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168059657,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/168059657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quackometer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}