A Case for Organic Food

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Poster's Comment - these books are downloaded free from the Soil and Health

Library. For those whom are still wondering if organic food is truly better

and healthier, and worth the price and effort - I think you will find your

answers here.

best wishes, Shan

 

 

_The Case for Organic Food:_

(http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/Arun/A%20case%20for%20organics.htm)

an extensive collection of articles, bibliographies and miscellany. Compiled

by Arun Shrivastava CMC, Director, Meristem Consultants Pvt Ltd, General

Secretary, Society for Economic Development & Environmental Management, New

Delhi, Director (Projects), All India Panchayat Parishad.

Arun Shrivastava has been passionately involved in attempts to upgrade

Indian agriculture from its currently desperate situation. His work has

demanded a

full comprehension of farming systems and their effects on human and

environmental health, so, a natural scholar, he has searched the world for

information. Arun's personal book collection includes most of the titles in the

Soil

and Health library collection and then some. He has thousands of articles and

other smaller bits of information in a computer database. The cream of this

collection is now made available here. This collection will powerfully help

satisfy the curiosity of anyone asking the questions: is organically grown food

better? In what way? How is food quality connected to health? We all owe a

debt of thanks to Arun Shrivastava for sharing this material.

_http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/Arun/A%20case%20for%20organics.htm_

(http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/Arun/A%20case%20for%20organics.htm)

 

_Bibliography (large, extensive)_

(http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/Arun/A%20case%20for%20organics%202.pdf\

) produced by the National Agricultural

Library, Beltsville, Maryland USA.

This bibliography focuses specifically on the nutritive value of organically

produced foods: vitamin and mineral content, as well as related chemical

constituents. With the exception of a handful of references to publications

that

deal with the general relationship of soil qualities and crop composition,

each document cited contains at least some information about nutrients found

in food as related to organic production. Most items deal with research

results; several are overviews of literature or research, or are opinion

pieces.

Many compare organic foods with those conventionally produced. Downloads as a

PDF of approximately 230 kb.

_Elevating Antioxidant Levels in Food Through Organic Farming and Food

Processing._ (http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/Arun/Antioxidant_SSR.pdf)

Charles M. Bembrook, PhD. The Organic Center for Education and Promotion,

January 2005.

A thorough study, 81 pages, full scientific rigour, downloads as a PDF of

1.57 mb.

_Fact Sheet from the Soils Association,_

(http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/Arun/Facts%20 & %20figures%20from%20soil\

%20association.pdf) Bristol, UK.

2004

A brief statement of the pluses for organically grown foods, with some

bibliographic entries. Downloads as a PDF of approximately 160 kb.

_Long-Term Field Experiment in Sweden:_

(http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/Arun/Long%20term%20experiment%20sweden\

..pdf) Effects of Organic and

Inorganic Fertilizers on Soil Fertility and Crop Quality. (In Proceedings of an

International Conference in Boston, Tufts University, Agricultural Production

and Nutrition, Massachusetts March 19-21, 1997.) by Artur Granstedt & Lars

Kjellenberg.

Downloads as a PDF of about 220 kb. Graphs and charts.

_Effect of Diets Based on Foods from Conventional versus Organic Production_

(http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/Arun/Effect%20of%20diets%20(major%20

study).pdf) on Intake and Excretion of Flavonoids and

Markers of Antioxidative Defense in Humans. LISBETH GRINDER-PEDERSEN, SALKA

E. RASMUSSEN, SUSANNE BU¨ GEL, LARS V. JØRGENSEN, LARS O. DRAGSTED, VAGN

GUNDERSEN, AND BRITTMARIE SANDSTROM. J. Agric. Food Chem. 2003, 51, 5671-5676

5671

Downloads as a PDF of about 64 kb. Graphs and charts.

 

_MICRONUTRIENTS._

(http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/Arun/Micronutrients.pdf) Lindsay H.

Allen. 2020 Focus 5 (Health and Nutrition Emerging and

Reemerging Issues in Developing Countries), Brief 10 of 11, February 2001

Downloads as a PDF of 98 kb.

_INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION._

(http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/Arun/Health%20and%20nutrition%20of%20c\

hildren%20in%20developing%20countries.pdf

) Mercedes de Onis. 2020 Focus 5 (Health and Nutrition Emerging and

Reemerging Issues in Developing Countries), Brief 6 of 11, February 2001

Downloads as a PDF of 85 kb.

_The Green Revolution and Nutrition._

(http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/Arun/The%20Green%20Revolution%20in%20I\

ndia.pdf) Author unknown.

Study primarily of the adverse effects of the green revolution in India.

Downloads as PDF of 225 kb.

_Organic foods in relation to nutrition and health:_

(http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/Arun/Organic%20foods%20in%20relation%2\

0to%20nutrition%20and%2

0health%20key%20fact.pdf) key facts. Medical News Today. 11 Jul 2004, UK

Downloads as a PDF of 110 kb.

_ " Nutrition and Biodynamics:Evidence for the Nutritional Superiority of

Organic Crops. " _

(http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/Arun/V%20Worethington.pdf) Virginia

Worthington MS, ScD, CNS. Biodynamics, v.224, Jul/Aug, 1999.

Downloads as a PDF of 188 kb.

_ " Organic Foods vs Supermarket Foods: Element Levels. " _

(http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/Arun/Organic%20vs%20supermarket--eleme\

nt%20levels.pdf)

Bob L. Smith. JOURNAL OF APPLIED NUTRITION, VOL 45-

1, 1993. PDF.

_FOCUS ON ORGANIC FOOD QUALITY - FEEDING TRIALS_

(http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/Arun/Feeding%20Trials.pdf) . SHANE

HEATON. PDF