Are Organic Foods Worth the Price—and the Cost?
Consumers are led to believe that organic foods are better for our bodies, laborers, and the environment than those conventionally-grown. Jorden and Kimberly delve into the veracity of these claims.
Episode 25
3/6/2025
The results of a media search would have anyone believe that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are the worst things ever created, science experiments designing crops that destroy human health and the planet. Instead, the global food system is far more complex than the claim that conventionally-grown crops (a.k.a. GMOs) are Frankenfoods and organic crops will save the day.
Key Topics Jorden and Kimberly discuss include:
How the methods farmers have used since the domestication of agriculture morphed into GMO production
How corporations gave genetically modified crops a bad name
Which claims about organic farming are overblown or legitimate
Whether to believe nutritional claims about organic produce
Why Asians have the Green Revolution to thank for development
Why monocropping is rotten, even if the crops are organic
Why organic crops will never be able to feed the global population
How the race to the bottom is the biggest enemy of the global food system
Recommended Resources
The Mayo Clinic’s take on organics
Are Organic Foods Really More Nutritious?
The USDA’s attempt to standardize organic certification
Why farmers choose GMO crops
A bit dated, but systematic policy review of GMOs
A video on the bioengineering of food
Kimberly’s Substack newsletter post
