[PHNUTR-L] American Dietetic Association Buries Organic Nutrition Facts, Supports Industrial Agriculture

[Kathrynne Holden]

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Worth reading, whether you agree or disagree w/ADA's position; this is 
what the public is reading:


The American Dietetic Association Buries Organic Nutrition Facts,
Supports Industrial Agriculture

The American Dietetic Association refuses to embrace the 2007 and 2009
findings of its Hunger and Environmental Nutrition Dietetic Practice
Group that plants cultivated in organic systems contain higher levels of
nutrients and an organic diet avoids the serious health risks associated
with pesticide exposure.

Instead of following its Hunger and Environmental Nutrition Dietetic
Practice Group on the issue, the American Dietetic Association has
allowed Marianne Smith Edge, a past president of ADA, to be the face of
the organization on this topic, giving her presentation, "The Organic
Debate: Is the Premium Worth It?" as the keynote address at meetings of
state dietetic associations across the nation. (The ADA did include a
competing presentation, New Evidence Confirms the Nutritional
Superiority of Plant-Based Organic Food, by Charles Benbrook of the
Organic Center at their 2008 annual conference.)

If one searches "organic" on the American Dietetic Association web site,
one finds a page claiming, "nutritionally there is no evidence that
organic produce is better or safer than conventionally grown produce."

The implications of the American Dietetic Association's refusal to
embrace organic are worsened by its refusal to reject genetic
engineering and chemical ingredients. It recently put its stamp of
approval on aspartame and has a policy statement that in favor of
genetic engineering.

Unfortunately, most news outlets look uncritically to the American
Dietetics Association to provide trustworthy and accurate information on
diet and nutrition. Please write to the editors of your local papers to
ask them to investigate conflicts of interest at the American Dietetic
Association.
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Kathrynne Holden, MS, RD
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