Organic = Just another marketing ploy

[hobgoblinx]

"Organic". You hear the word a lot these days as it pertains to food and grocery stores. Personally I had always found it irksome because most of what everyone eats is organic anyway. I dare you to show me a bag of spinach that ISN'T organic. If you can, I'm betting it's a plastic play-skool toy for 3 year olds

Comments

[spinningwoman]

I tend towards cane sugars and whatnot because they arn't bleached. The idea that americans have/had that white = clean is just absurd. So they bleach sugar and flour to make it as "clean" as possible... well, that's just gross. There's a bottle of bleach in my laundry cabinet, if my diet is lacking, I'll take a swig.

[tompurdue]

The long and the short of it is, unless you are deliberately going out of your way to spend extra money for a slab of beef that was supposedly butchered from a cow that was allowed to wander at pasture instead of bred in an industrial cattle ranch because it somehow makes you feel like a better person knowing that bessy got to know the pleasures of an open field before they cut her throatYep. That's precisely why I do it, and why I don't go too far out of my way to buy organic vegetables. I see no problems with eating meat; it's very healthy in moderate doses. And animals die, all the time; an animal in the wild rarely meets an end which is other than horrific

Re: i almost fully agree, but...

[findingjuliet]

you know i'm all for organic milk -- it makes my boobies smaller :)

and the other thing ... women/girls are now entering menopause earlier than ever before most likely because they started their periods at a really early age because they ate and drank diary products chock full of growth hormones. yeah, i don't trust that shit anymore ... never again.

[whimmydiddle]

I think a lot of the supposed benefits of organic foods are overblown, but I believe there are some. I do think our standard meats and dairy products are over-laced with growth hormones, and our standard fruits and vegetables are over-treated with pesticides and weed killers. Doing without these chemical methods makes producing our food much more labor-intensive and therefore more expensive. They also do not come out quite so Norman Rockwell blemish-free, and we have been trained to expect perfect beautiful produce. It's a tough fence to balance on.

BTW, check my post for January 20th for my praise of your hot new look.

organic is great for unprocessed food

[childofpsyche]

i think the problem with the organic thing is once the food becomes processed how "organic" can it be. When i can afford it i buy organic fruit, veggies, and meat because my grandparents lived in farm town and i know way moe than i need to about grass feed cows versus cows that eat other "stuff". No pesticides or weird shit is awesome but if youa re cooking my food for me in a giant factory so it will survive packaging to come to me yeah i think that organic becomes pointless.