Reasons you should buy regular goods

Denver Post ^ | 29 july 07 | Jackie Avner

[rellimpank]

I don't like to buy organic food products, and avoid them at all cost. It is a principled decision reached through careful consideration of effects of organic production practices on animal welfare and the environment. I buy regular food, rather than organic, for the benefit of my family.

I care deeply about food being plentiful, affordable and safe. I grew up on a dairy farm, where my chores included caring for the calves and scrubbing the milking facilities. As a teenager, I was active in Future Farmers of America, and after college I took a job in Washington, D.C., on the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee staff.

But America no longer has an agrarian economy, and now it is rare for people to have firsthand experience with agricultural production and regulation. This makes the general public highly susceptible to rumors and myths about food, and vulnerable to misleading marketing tactics designed not to improve the safety of the food supply, but to increase retail profits.

[rellimpank]

--surprising sense in the Dumber Pest-(Denver Post)--

[Joe Republc]

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I don’t like paying more money for something I’ve suspected is do-gooderism that doesn’t even do what it intends.

I also avoid low-fat and sugar free foods. Why? Because I like good taste.

— Joe

[norwaypinesavage]

Makes sense to me. You wouldn’t believe the $h!t they put on organic food.

[rellimpank]

-—being a Wisconsin farm boy who also worked in a canning factory, believe me , I do—

[rellimpank]

—ping—

[dmz]

You wouldn’t believe the $h!t they put on organic food.
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I’m no organic food enthusiast by any stretch, but your comment has me LOL. You and I can probably not pronounce half of the chemical names of the $hit they put on non-organic foods. Pick your poison, I guess.

[centurion316]

This is a good article, and I agree with the author’s points. I do buy a brand of organic milk because I prefer the taste, but I may reconsider. We get our eggs at the local feed store, they come from my neighbors barnyard chickens and are far fresher and have a much superior flavor. You have to bring your own container, and they don’t always have them, but they can’t be beat.

[MinuteGal]

Please expand on what you know is put on organic food and where it's put on (in the fields, greenhouses.....?).

I'm not an organicist, but I'd sure like to know for the benefit of certain people I know who swear by organically-grown edibles.

Leni

[alicewonders]

Very interesting article, things I did not know.

[ari-freedom]

a real organic advocate (such as perhaps westonaprice.org) would be against grain fed beef and pasteurized milk. While I’m not sure I would want to drink raw milk, it is a fact that grass fed cows are healthier.

[XR7]

The apple puree used to sweeten the yogurt sometimes comes from Turkey, and the strawberries from China...

Where they use human excrement for "organic" fertilizer?

[vietvet67]

Interesting site: http://www.grinningplanet.com/2006/update-2005-05-24/pesticides-in-food.htm

[Louis Foxwell]

Again and again environmentally friendly alternatives to money-grubbing-high-tech products are just money grubbing without the tech. Dirt farmers in the Middle Ages are the model for these fanatics.

[wolfcreek]

“I took a job in Washington, D.C.”

Here’s your sign!

Somebody’s got to eat the crappy food.

[JACKRUSSELL]

According to the Oct. 16, 2006, cover story in Business Week, when you eat Stonyfield Farms yogurt, you are often consuming dried organic milk flown all the way from New Zealand and reconstituted here in the U.S. The apple puree used to sweeten the yogurt sometimes comes from Turkey, and the strawberries from China.

[Mark was here]

Who knew, common sense from a farmer, now lets get them to apply common sense to farm subsidies.

[mtbopfuyn]

I don’t like paying more money for something I’ve suspected is do-gooderism that doesn’t even do what it intends. I also avoid low-fat and sugar free foods. Why? Because I like good taste.

What you said.

[Joya]

Thanks R.P., HG, ping.

[Ditter]

I don’t buy organic grown vegetables because that means they were raised in poop, but I do like Promised Land milk. The best thing about Whole Foods is that their products don’t contain high fructos corn syrup or MSG. Corn makes my headache and MSG makes my heart pound erratically.

[Vinnie]

The best thing about Whole Foods is that their products don’t contain high fructose corn syrup or MSG.

Is that true for all their products? The corn syrup part.