Current Events > I hate how people act like growing their own food makes them healthier.

(+) Yeah! (+)

It doesn't in any measurable quality. If you enjoy it then by all means do it, but don't act like you're any less likely to get cancer or any other debilitating condition.

Well since you put it that way...

*destroys garden*

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I ate a turnip and my lumbago was cured

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It does, to varying degrees. Some plants lose significant quality with shipping and storage.

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Strider102 posted...

Well since you put it that way...

*destroys garden*

Nah man, gardens are awesome, and if you were gonna argue about taste it'd be a different story, it just doesn't make you healthy

It's the 'appeal to nature' fallacy

That said, growing your own food is mostly for avoiding slave labor used by Big Agro
It's less about 'healthy' and more about having a clear conscience/virtue signaling

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lack of pesticide/herbicide. Soil is non-depleted, too.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-and-nutrition-loss/

A landmark study on the topic by Donald Davis and his team of researchers from the University of Texas (UT) at Austins Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry was published in December 2004 in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition. They studied U.S. Department of Agriculture nutritional data from both 1950 and 1999 for 43 different vegetables and fruits, finding reliable declines in the amount of protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin (vitamin B2) and vitamin C over the past half century. Davis and his colleagues chalk up this declining nutritional content to the preponderance of agricultural practices designed to improve traits (size, growth rate, pest resistance) other than nutrition.

The Organic Consumers Association cites several other studies with similar findings: A Kushi Institute analysis of nutrient data from 1975 to 1997 found that average calcium levels in 12 fresh vegetables dropped 27 percent; iron levels 37 percent; vitamin A levels 21 percent, and vitamin C levels 30 percent. A similar study of British nutrient data from 1930 to 1980, published in the British Food Journal, found that in 20 vegetables the average calcium content had declined 19 percent; iron 22 percent; and potassium 14 percent. Yet another study concluded that one would have to eat eight oranges today to derive the same amount of Vitamin A as our grandparents would have gotten from one.
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