Organic farming is good for the environment, but does it make a difference to the human body? The Swedish Environmental Research Institute IVL studied a family of five who didn’t eat organic foods to find out what chemicals still lingered in their bodies. Researchers took urine samples from each member of the family, including the mother, father, two daughters, and a toddler-aged son to measure these chemicals.
“We found insecticides, fungicides, and plant growth regulators,” said the study’s co-author Jorgen Magner, from the Swedish Environmental Research Institute, in the video. “We know very little about the long-term effects of eating food treated with pesticides, especially if you consider the chemicals can be much more harmful when combined together than they are on their own.”
