Organic food is probably the single most successful marketing campaign in the history of food.

Ask anyone, and they're likely to tell you that it's more healthy, that it has less

pesticide contamination, or that it has a lower environmental impact.

Today, we're going to put these beliefs to the test, and see if the practices needed

to qualify for the organic certification truly do benefit the final product at all.

Organic vs. Conventional is today Unskeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com, organic vs. Conventional Agriculture.

Today we're going to take a second look at a pop culture trend that first caught my

attention because it so flagrantly waves many of the red flags that characterize pseudoscience,

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