Our organic foods

um...clusterfuck?

I have a confession to make: though I do care about the type of food I eat, I do 40% of the time cut corners.

That does not stop me from ranting against commercialized food products though.

After graduating from college as a bio major, I do believe there are major limitations to what science can do. For example, at the current technology/knowledge level, we cannot break down a food (or any other carbon-based life form) and then reconstitute it from individually known parts back to its original nutritional value. Things are destroyed in the breakdown process that doesn't get added in again because we do not know that they were there in the first place. Hence, it is much better to eat natural unprocessed foods whenever we can.

A perfect example is flour. A typical bag of flour that we buy at the grocery store consists of enriched bleached flour. Translation? We stripped the flour of as much nutrients as we could so it could be aesthetically beautiful and then added the vitamins back in so you won't miss the vitamins. Why not just buy unprocessed flour (or whatever they are called) in the first place? You get all the benefits of it without losing out on some important component.

Now, each individual little part that we lose out on doesn't matter by itself. However, I believe the cumulative effect is generally an unhealthy diet that's worse for our body and health.