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Organic shoppers 'less likely to show kindness'
Telegraph (UK) ^ | February 17, 2013

Posted on 02/17/2013 7:13:32 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

Organic products make people feel more secure about their own morality, which weakens the desire to act altruistically, the US findings suggest.

The effect also makes people judge immoral behavior more harshly, psychologists report in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science.

But comfort foods such as chocolate can lead to us being more social and making "kinder moral judgments".

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Food; Society
KEYWORDS: foods; kindness; organic; psychology
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My guess is people with "Co-Exist" bumper stickers tend to smile less, too.
1 posted on 02/17/2013 7:13:37 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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Doesn’t surprise me one bit.


2 posted on 02/17/2013 7:17:28 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: ConservativeStatement

Your tax dollars at work.


3 posted on 02/17/2013 7:18:59 PM PST by expat1000
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And live in cities where people treat each other like crap and are left leaning in their politics.

Lots of irony in the Left.


4 posted on 02/17/2013 7:19:54 PM PST by dhs12345
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Liberals/Progs are elitists. Smug and arrogant and think the rest of the world should be in lockstep. Anyone disagreeing (or not living and thinking as they are) should be killed.

Same ol’, same ol’.


5 posted on 02/17/2013 7:20:41 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Oh, c’mon...what BS....I’m conservative and I buy some organic stuff....sheesh....


6 posted on 02/17/2013 7:21:04 PM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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And, I eat a lot of chocolate, too....paying for studies like this is ridiculous and a reason we are in the dire straits we are in.


7 posted on 02/17/2013 7:22:43 PM PST by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

“Researchers” getting money from my tax dollars to “research” idiotic ideas makes me feel a lot less altruistic.


8 posted on 02/17/2013 7:27:02 PM PST by Fzob (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
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Some time ago an MIT student wrote a piece in a student publication about a visit she paid to a Whole Foods market.In it she commented on the 10,000 types of cheese and 5,000 different wines they offered (and their price) as well as the cars you’d find in the parking lot....along with other things.The basic conclusion she reached in the article...one with which I totally agree...is that shopping there isn’t a search for health but,rather,a public (blatant,I’d say) display of affluence.
9 posted on 02/17/2013 7:33:00 PM PST by Gay State Conservative ("Progressives" toss the word "racist" around like chimps toss their feces)
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The Socialized ones aren’t so social.


10 posted on 02/17/2013 7:33:46 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

What was Elizabeth Warren’s line in her recent campaign? “Ask anyone at the cheese store...”


11 posted on 02/17/2013 7:40:45 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama is the "Disco Duck" president. A no-substance novelty that reached number one.)
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A lot of them are liberal and are perpetually angry.


12 posted on 02/17/2013 7:51:04 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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The big difference is the ideology of people who dwell on what is and isn’t organic. You’re a conservative among a largely liberal crowd in buying organic.


13 posted on 02/17/2013 7:53:34 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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Never thought of this before but this nation is going to war with itself so where will those holier-than-thou pious nitwits going to shop if they refuse to eat anything they stupidly declare “not organic”? They don’t even know what the word ‘organic’ means.


14 posted on 02/17/2013 8:05:16 PM PST by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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Without the expense of a “study” I swear folks that are vegan are positively hellish to be around.


15 posted on 02/17/2013 8:15:14 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (One "bitter clinger" praying for revival. <BCC><)
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All I know the few times I shop at the organic stores....” Whole Foods” or “Central Market” I find the employees really nice but the shoppers are not so nice....


16 posted on 02/17/2013 8:21:01 PM PST by Kimmers
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Organic products make people feel more secure about their own morality, which weakens the desire to act altruistically, the US findings suggest.

This is hilarious!!! Organic produce has been proven to offer NOTHING beneficial over their pesticide treated counterparts!!! All organic products provide is a means for morons to pay MORE for the same produce the rest of us buy for less money!!

17 posted on 02/17/2013 8:47:09 PM PST by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for anti-American criminals!!)
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The ones that preach tolerance are the most intolerant people around.


18 posted on 02/17/2013 8:51:19 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Superciliousness is the essence of Obama)
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Dr Eskine and colleagues, who titled their paper 'Wholesome Foods and Wholesome Morals?', concluded that organic foods and morality "share the same conceptual space" in our minds.

Totally unsurprising. And perfectly natural that liberals, who are finger wagging moralizers par excellence, would be the biggest organic food buffs.

19 posted on 02/17/2013 8:58:00 PM PST by Yardstick
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Just writing off the title...I KNOW this to be the truth.

About 6-7 years ago, my family and I were interested in eating healthier and looked into organic food. We lived in Tacoma at the time, and there wasn’t much in the way of organic stuff there (it’s changed slightly, but not much). So, my wife and 4 kids took a day trip up to Seattle.

There is an organic chain up there, PCC (Pacific Coast Co-op), that specializes in organic and natural foods. We went to the one in the Green Lake neighborhood...in other words, ground zero for liberal hell in Seattle. We went in to the store and walked around, looking at what they had. Understand- we were dressed nicely, and all four of our kids were well-behaved all during the time we were there.

The LOOKS that we got....they’d have burned through plate steel. Apparently, the fact that we had kids at all was anathema. The shoppers in the market looked at us like we had come in shouting obscenities and thrown feces on the walls. It was as if I could hear them thinking “You waster of resources! How dare you increase your carbon footprint with those brats!”.....or words to that effect.

I am happy to say that I have never been back, and I never will be.


20 posted on 02/17/2013 9:04:50 PM PST by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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