The only thing that I buy is organic milk. So many growth hormones go into these cows. Decided I didn’t want them going into my daughter.
I started buying organic milk a while back after a conversation with my very conservative ex-Army doctor. Don’t remember how we got on the subject but he said he was seeing more and more concerned parents coming in with 8 and 9 year old girls who were getting their cycles already. He felt certain that it was attributable to the steriods and other hormones we are giving cows.
Since then, we’ve been solidly organic milk drinkers. Which is fine by us as there is a Mennonite dairy not far away that provides well and at fair prices. And I prefer to support the smaller independent farmers and producers anyway.
This. The only "organic" food I buy every time is the milk. I drink 2 gallons a week and the last part of the second one would sometimes spoil in that week. The organic never does. And yes, I watch "sell by" dates.
I bought some local organic milk one day and it was incredible. I should say,, it was just fresh and not pasteurized. It was like I had tasted milk for the first time in my life. Then they stopped selling it. Some government agency threatened them or something. Other than that,, organic is pretty humorous.
I watched this History channel thing a few weeks ago on some community somewhere that is living green. These people actually crap in 5 gallon buckets and then put it in a compost pile. They were a bunch of loony libs, obviously. Their message was we will all be living this way someday so we need to start now. I noticed,, their entire freaking day was spent to feed themselves. They were either canning, picking, harvesting, peeling, planting or cooking. that was their entire day. Genius’s all of them!