--- title: Five Best Ideas: Organic Foods Could Prevent a Health Crisis description: Organic food prevent a public health crisis, our perception of undocumented immigration in America doesn’t always match reality and more. canonical: https://time.com/4696647/organic-foods-could-prevent-a-public-health-crisis/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-09T17:00:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:00.935Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Organic Foods Could Prevent a Public Health Crisis og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4696647/organic-foods-could-prevent-a-public-health-crisis/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Organic Foods Could Prevent a Public Health Crisis twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Organic Foods Could Prevent a Public Health Crisis by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 9, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 9, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Could organic food prevent a public health crisis?**](http://civileats.com/2017/03/08/can-organic-food-prevent-a-public-health-crisis/) By Elizabeth Grossman in _Civil Eats_ **2\.** [**Our perception of undocumented immigration in America doesn’t always match reality.**](http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/08/517561046/how-americas-idea-of-illegal-immigration-doesnt-always-match-reality) By Hansi Lo Wang, Alyson Hurt and Camila Domonoske at _NPR_ **3\.** [**If America’s public lands were a business, politicians would be bungling the balance sheet.**](http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-chouinard-federal-lands-20170309-story.html) By Yvon Chouinard in the _Los Angeles Times_ **4\.** [**This lab-in-a-box could bring gene therapy to the masses.**](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603762/this-lab-in-a-box-could-make-gene-therapy-affordable/) By Antonio Regalado at _MIT Technology Review_ **5\.** [**Tech companies are hoarding patents, but they should be donating them.**](https://theoutline.com/post/1198/tech-companies-are-hoarding-patents-but-they-should-be-donating-them) By Tolulope Edionwe in the _Outline_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4696647/organic-foods-could-prevent-a-public-health-crisis/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4696647/organic-foods-could-prevent-a-public-health-crisis/"},"headline":"Organic Foods Could Prevent a Public Health Crisis","datePublished":"2017-03-09T17:00:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:00.935Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4696647/organic-foods-could-prevent-a-public-health-crisis/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Food","Immigration","patents"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4696647/organic-foods-could-prevent-a-public-health-crisis/","name":"Organic Foods Could Prevent a Public Health Crisis"}}]}] ```