Posted on 11/22/2009 8:11:17 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
President Barack Obama's commitment to tackle climate change, a string of scandals over tainted food and effective marketing of sustainable products have helped convince more Americans, whose environmental credentials lag behind Europeans, to buy green.
"I've been reading about carbon footprints," said Lindsey Hoffman, 24, as she selected organic lettuce at a Whole Foods Market in Manhattan, "and though I'd prefer to go to a farmer's market, this is better than anything else."
Some experts say the global economic crisis and the battle against global warming have prompted consumers to think more about purchases -- both financially and environmentally.
"The financial crisis reminded people of the unintended consequences of collective behavior," said Scott Bearse of Deloitte Consulting, who added that once people go green, they generally stay green.
Shelly Balanko at the Hartman Group, a marketing consulting firm that specializes in sustainable goods, said shoppers were realizing that green products offered better quality, along with causing less harm to the environment.
She said buyers now thought, "'If I buy this, it will be less wasteful and I'm going to get good value for my dollar.'"
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
I sure hope they’re shopping while bending over.
They have to be.
That’s where ther little heads are buried.
I’m guilty of buying organic, but only because of the chemicals I don’t want to take in due to commercial uses of fertilizer and insecticides. I drink enough beer and do enough damage to my body without having to add the garbage used on vegetables and fruit.
That’s where the Muslim Messiah and the US Congress have shoved their freedom.
So they find a shopper at a Whole Foods in Manhattan, center of the liberal universe, who is concerned about carbon footprints? And from that, extrapolate that there is a big trend among Americans being concerned about their carbon footprint?
Are the liberals no longer po’d at Whole Foods? Remember their CEO guy wrote a news opinion piece about healthcare reform that had the liberals panties in a twist? And as his punishment for expressing something other than the liberal party line, they were going to boycott the chain? How’s that working out for them?
Anybody sees me carrying one of those cheap chinese woven totes INTO a grocery store, or paying triple the price for a head of “organic” lettuce.......shoot me.......multiple times.
Now that is one heck of a statement.
Really look at it, think about it.
THIS is a Reuters Invent-a-story.
Lindsey Hoffman, 24, as she selected organic lettuce
I would like to have someone explain to me what is in organic lettuce that is not in [regular] llettuce.
Or what is not in regular lettuce that is in organic letttuce.
Anyone?????
That lettuce was probably fertilized with the farmer's personal uncomposted feces and it cost her $7.99 for the privilege.
But doesn’t it take a lot more land to farm organic than in other ways?
So, wouldn’t that mean that it will take a lot more land to feed the same number of people?
If this is true, where does the land come from that will be used for the less effective organic farming methods?
And if organic food is so much better, why does it always look so much less colorful & fresh than the non organic produce in the store?
Her economy isn't struggling if she's worried about carbon footprints while shopping at Whole Foods. That's luxury, not economic depession.
All this organic crap is confusing. Back in my college chem classes the prof’s went to great lengths to edumacate us on the differences between organic and inorganic. Now it means something else. I’ll bet I can go to my supermarket and find organic salt.
LOL!
"Organic" honey is another one... Pesticides kill bees immediately... All honey is organic...
Everyone better start worrying about their freedom and survival first. We have enemies within the US Congress that declared war upon the American people last night.
Screw the carbon footprint BS.
Sounds like the Jews in concentration camps being starved to death worrying about what they’re going to wear to the ovens.
And if they think farmers do not use chemicals to increase their yields Bend over. Most foods grown for consumption by humans do not compete well with weeds.
In face of the Fraud ..this toady writes an article extoling the success of the propaganda campaign. Look we got the idiots to fall for this cr**.
Well when their playbook said that getting the little people to think of GW as a home thing, they win.
Yeah but what do they think is happening when the “little” people realize they have been scammed
It is not only a Reuters Inventa-a-story, it is behind the times. The cutting-edge sustainable/environmental/organic folks are into something called the “slow food” movement. They buy as local as possible, through farmers directly, coops or the new, hip stores that specialize in local produce, meat and dairy. A lot of farmers now have online ordering and weekly drop off points in cities (usually in parking lots of businesses sympathetic to the cause).
For years, producers went through the hoops to qualify their crops for organic because of the added dollar return. But, this economy has seen a sea-change with those returns.
Because of the higher costs of production, the greater loss of distressed product during packing and the lower prices to the grower, all resulting in a lower return to the grower, many growers are taking their product out of the organic program.
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