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DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nThe European Union, the United States, Canada, Japan and many other 
 countries require producers to obtain special certification based on 
 government-defined standards to market food as organic within their 
 borders. Although sales of organic food increased greatly over the last 
 decade, organics are still a tiny fraction of the food Americans eat. 
 \n\n\n\n\n\n\nProcessed organic food usually contains only organic 
 ingredients. If non-organic ingredients are present, at least a certain 
 percentage of the food's total plant and animal ingredients must be organic 
 (95% in the United States, Canada, and Australia). Foods claiming to be 
 organic must be free of artificial food additives, and are often processed 
 with fewer artificial methods, materials and conditions, such as chemical 
 ripening, food irradiation, and genetically modified ingredients. 
 Pesticides are allowed as long as they are not synthetic. However, under 
 U.S. federal organic standards, if pests and weeds are not controllable 
 through management practices, nor via organic pesticides and herbicides, "a 
 substance included on the National List of synthetic substances allowed for 
 use in organic crop production may be applied to prevent, suppress, or 
 control pests, weeds, or diseases."  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAre organics worth the 
 extra costs? Or does organic grossly overstating the health 
 benefits?\n\nFor the motion that organic food is marketing hype: \nDennis 
 Avery, Director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Food Issues 
 and \nBlake Hurst, Freelance Writer for Wall Street Journal, Wilson 
 Quarterly, and the American and \nJohn Krebs, Principal of Jesus College, 
 Oxford.\n\nAgainst the motion that organic food is marketing hype:\nCharles 
 Benbrook, Chief Scientist of The Organic Center and \nUrvashi Rangan, 
 Director of Technical Policy for Consumers Union and \nJeffrey Steingarten, 
 Food Critic for Vogue Magazine.\n\nThe moderator is John Donvan, author and 
 correspondent for ABC News.\nPodcast source: intelligence2: Organic Food Is 
 Marketing Hype\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHoneybee Collapse linked to New 
 Insecticides\n\nHoneybees are essential pollinators for fruits and 
 vegetables. No bee species existed in the New World during human times 
 before the introduction of bees by Europeans. In early 2007, abnormally 
 high die-offs (30–70% of hives) of European honey bee colonies occurred 
 in North America and such a decline seems unprecedented in recent history. 
 Harvard School of Public Scientist Alex Lu tells Steve Curwood about new 
 research connects the collapse to the recent introduction of a new type of 
 pesticide, neonicotinoids.\nPodcast source: living on earth: Honeybee 
 Collapse linked to New Insecticides\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWater Conservation 
 Technologies\n\nTurn on the faucet, and water pours out. Pull out the drain 
 plug, and the dirty water disappears. Most of us give little thought to the 
 hidden systems that bring us water and take it away when we’re done with 
 it. But these underappreciated marvels of engineering face an array of 
 challenges that cannot be solved without a fundamental change to our 
 relationship with water. \n\nIncreasing population density and changing 
 climate stress our cities’ water supply. UC Berkeley professor David 
 Sedlak discusses future water infrastructure with Steve Curwood.\nPodcast 
 source: living on earth: Water 4.0\n\nDownload or Play Food Marketing Hype 
 Part 1Download or Play Food Marketing Hype Part 2Download or Play Food 
 Marketing Hype Part 3Download or Play Honeybee Collapse\n\nMusic includes 
 Chumbawamba - Everything You Know is Wrong, Aretha Franklin & Annie Lennox 
 - Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves, Capitol Steps - You Can't Hide This 
 Biden Guy, Ben Harper - Both Sides of the Gun, Democracy Killed, Capitol 
 Steps - Under the Sea, JFK 6-10-1963, Jim Page - When Johnny Comes Marching 
 Home, Neil Young - Lets Impeach The President, Bunny Sigler - Climate 
 Change, Groovy Judy - Peace And Love, Pete Seeger - Last Night I Had the 
 Strangest Dream, Craymo & Brandon Harrett - One Love One World, Mariachi 
 Aguila Real - El Jarabe Tapatio, Aaron Copland - Walk To The Bunkhouse 
 \n\n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/05/29/18772914.php
SUMMARY:Is Organic Food Marketing Hype? - A Debate
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