I would like to carry this one step farther with organic vs. non-organic foods. Ideally, you want to eat nothing but pastured, organic, hormone-free, etc. foods but there is thing called reality. One, some of these foods are not even available within a 30 min driving distance and on a budget are out of many people's reach. This past Friday my Mom decided to fix a very healthy meal of liver and onions. Of course I special ordered mine without wheat flour as my Dad insists on his being "country-style" battered.
Yes, the liver is the filter of the animal. This particular liver came straight from a CAFO operation, loaded with antibiotics, hormones and God knows what, packaged and sent to the local grocery. You know what? I ate 2 big pieces of that "non-organic" liver and felt the best I had in weeks. I went out later that evening and had plenty of energy to keep going late into the night. Want to know why? Because along with this CAFO filter were an extremely healthy dose of vitamin A, B12, copper, B2, tryptophan, folate, zinc, B3, B5, phoporous, B6, iron, and selenium! Reference There are very few foods on earth that come even close to the nutrition in this marvelous piece of organ meat.
The main thing to remember is you don't have to be perfect to be healthy. A conventionally grown apple, carrot, cherry, kiwi, orange, etc. is always going to be better than a moonpie, honeybun, or even a bag of "all natural & baked" chips. Likewise, eating non-organic liver once a week will do much more for your health than not ever eating liver at all because you don't have access to clean, pastured, organic liver.
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