Poll for Study Being Conducted by Columbia University: Organic Food?
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Apr
I am a student at Columbia University and am conducting a poll for a research paper regarding organic food labels. Please respond to the following two questions: Do you shop organic (food)? What does the label “organic” (on food products) mean to you? I appreciate your time and consideration; please do not respond if you are uncomfortable with these statistics in a research paper. No names will be included. Thank you.
I shop organic only on certain foods such as lettuce and bananas.
It means they did not use any pesticide.
No I never shop “organic food” because the cost far outweigh the benefits.
Meaning of “organic”. It’s practically meaningless because there is no legal definition. Even if it was possible to define there would be producers who would find ways around the definition while still being legal.
I think anyone who thinks they know “organic” has not sufficiently educated themselves about food science.
PhD Food Chemistry and Nutrition
I do buy “organic” food
and
on food labelled “organic” it means that no “artificial’ fertilizers, or preservatives, or harmful pesticides are used