Has anyone ever experienced upset stomach from eating organic food?
Sep 05, 2010 in
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I had my first helping of Organic eggs this morning. I’ve never had them before and have always had eggs that were from hens that weren’t treated right, fed crazy diets, pumped full of hormones and antibiotics, etc.
While I’ve done my research enough to know that buying Organic is a good idea, do you think it’s normal to experience an upset stomach because your body’s not used to digesting these things yet?
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2 comments
Mark B on September 5, 2010 at 4:14 pm
No, if anything something else you ate caused it, you’re sick or you just got a bad egg. I eat Organic eggs because they’re shown to be more nutritions. They are in no way more dangerous than cheap eggs, and are probably safer if you eat them raw. You chances of getting Salmonella from a regular farmed egg are much greater than from pastured, free-range or at least cage free chickens.
Note that organic produce is different from organic meat, or eggs. Organic produce only uses pesticides from an approved list to kill bugs. Organic animals are not treated with antibiotics or hormones. The antibiotics are necessary to counter their poor living conditions, so without poor living conditions they don’t need the antibiotics.
you dont know me on September 5, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Yes, because since there are no antibiotics or other things chickens need to be healthy, the eggs you ate could be tainted with other things that are bad for you. I am on the fence about organic. Sure, you leave out pesticides, but you have the pests. And you never know, just because those chickens are "organic" doesnt mean they were treated better than non-organic or their diet may even crazier to make them be able to be listed as organic. I really wish more research was done on this whole fad. I picked up a organic celery the other day at the store and it was the floppiest, grossest piece of celery I have ever seen. Thanks, but no thanks.