Penn & Teller claims organic food is "bullshit", fails to mention that their expert is paid by Monsanto

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food Perhaps instead of reading propoganda by either side you should simply read and make up your own minds.

I thought the point of organic food was that it come from a local source something like a 100 mile radius from where one resides. If that is indeed the case, wouldn't food from China in fact not be organic? Just asking a question, don't flame me please.

Miss-information 101, when you can't refute the facts attack the messenger. Penn and Teller just schooled the organic people and made them look like fools. Deal with it.

Just to keep consistent, shouldn't we disregard anything published in this blog as a conflict of interest?

Typically lack of real facts to call real facts typical liberal nonsense.

That's ironic considering how you act like an rude and arrogant prig that can't look at the whole picture of the argument between organic and GMO foods. You would rather just pick the side you think sounds best while sticking your fingers in your ears when people present scientific facts that show the flaws in organic foods such as that they don't provide enough food for the ever growing world population. You would rather set the world back as far as Ancient Medieval era farming techniques so you feel emotionally pious while people in developing countries such as Tanzania and Ethiopia starve to death because they don't have enough crops that are able to grow in their dry climate.

His main point was never about giant corporate monopolies or China. I believe his most notable points had to do with the fact that organic farming alone can't sustain 7 Billion (and growing) people.

how hard is it to grasp that it doesn't matter who pays who, as long as the claims are factual? and of course someone who has a certain opinion and/or interest backs the cause they agree with (would you expect a proponent of organic food to argue against organic food?). the exact same thing is the case on both sides of the issue. again, the only thing that matters is the truth. facts don't become less valid just because they are put forward by someone you don't like.

Penn and Teller are a joke, who would listen to these corporate morons? Anyone who thinks organic is bullshit can go suck Monsanto's dick, most likely they already are.

Did we read the same article? Its full of links that back up the authors claims.

Your mixing several issues here, but the first an largest miss conception is the belief that organic farming is all small farmers. Sorry majority but >90% is just front companies for the big corporate farms. Yep, 'uncle Bobby's all organic treats' or what ever name is on the box, if almost certainly fake. Unless you buying it straight from a farm stand. (even then check labels, lots of farm stands just repackage everything other than the one or two real money crops) The 'Organic' food scam, is biting you both ways. (Remember the label laws are so lax that the vast majority of all manufactured foods could qualify with just the slightest effort, but they won't since they can small the big bucks from fooling the chumps that pay extra to get their processed oats out of brown box, rather than a paper tube)