Posted on 03/21/2016 6:33:08 PM PDT by MtnClimber
I don’t buy organic foods. In fact I specifically avoid doing so. It’s not my place to tell anyone else what to do, but I’d like to lay out three, seriously considered factors that have shaped my personal stance on organic: 1. Informed confidence that we are safe buying “conventional” foods 2. Recognizing that some of the best farming practices from an environmental perspective are not always allowed or practical under the organic rules 2.An ethical problem with the tactics that some organic advocates and marketers employ which seriously misrepresents their “conventional” competition...... As for the safety issue. When most people hear the word “pesticide,” they imagine something scary in terms of toxicity to humans and the environment. The reality is that modern agriculture employs an integrated suite of non-pesticidal control measures, and the actual pesticides used today are mostly relatively non-toxic to humans. Organic farmers also use pesticides, and the products they are allowed to use are constrained with few exceptions by whether they can be considered “natural.” That is not a safety standard since many of the most toxic chemicals known are “natural.” Like all pesticides, these natural options are subject to EPA scrutiny, and so the pesticides that organic farmers are allowed to use are “safe when used according to the label requirements” which is the same standard for synthetic pesticides allowed on conventional crops.
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All the food I eat is organic, but I avoid the overpriced low quality stuff that they make an extra effort to redundantly label “organic.”
“Organic” means it contains hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon.
I don’t think I could live on non-organic “food.”
I purchase the most environmentally friendly food produced—the food where a number of pest control and fertilization methods are used to produce the highest yield possible.
One of Cruz's largest campaign donors is Monsanto & Cruz is anti-organic. The bible calls what Monsanto does, witchcraft & sorcery. One doesn't need man made chemicals, God gave us the answer in His creation...
‘Back to Eden’ documentary about organic gardening http://www.backtoedenfilm.com/
We buy as much organic as we can from a bulk supplier that delivers once a month. We also had the chicken shed & hens delivered yesterday and have gotten 2 dozen organic eggs in the past 2 days. YUMMMMMMM. And looks like we'll get one more snowstorm this week, then it's time to set up the raised garden beds.
You pay a dollar or two more for that organic stuff which is no better. I’ve even seen signs for ‘organic flowers’ ....
In my experience, that is certainly true.
Not what they said last year...
In a first for a major restaurant chain, Chipotle Mexican Grill on Monday will begin preparing only food that is free of genetically engineered ingredients.
“This is another step toward the visions we have of changing the way people think about and eat fast food,” said Steve Ells, founder and co-chief executive of Chipotle. “Just because food is served fast doesn’t mean it has to be made with cheap raw ingredients, highly processed with preservatives and fillers and stabilizers and artificial colors and flavors.”
I read a while back on an article on farmers that they will not eat their potatoes because of how loaded w/ pesticides they are. Organic is expensive so I pick & choose.
Wrapped by God
That's not a very good argument.
We've shown the entire world how to produce more food than they can possibly eat, and they have rejected our ideas.
There is a price to pay for being stupid, and that price may very well be starvation.
That said, I avoid organic like the plague.
That's all we had growing up. Now, I want to eat good food.
My bad.
Organic - GMO
Doh!
Technically, all vegetables are ‘organic’
There is no pesticide-free food. The self-labeled "organic" farmers use pesticides--they just have a list of so-called "natural" pesticides, just as toxic, but deemed okay for "organic" use.
The whole "organic" foods thing is nothing but a scam.
The food I grow in MY garden is pesticide-free. Herbicide-free too.
I don’t care if it’s organic or not, but I do draw the line at GMO Frankenfood. If they engineer a tomato to resist or kill white fly larva, why would they think humans can eat the same thing without consequences?
I agree. I buy organic as well.
Buying organic food is sinful? What if you buy it because you think it tastes better? If you pay for it you aren’t stealing. I live in the middle of the country where many organic foods are produced by small local farmers and ranchers. I like supporting their businesses.
Organic vegetables are fertilized by Jose & Manuel & Miguel. Out in the fields when you gotta go, you gotta go.
Because humans can?
The resistance to GMO food puzzles me. Because virtually all food grown for human consumption is the product of extensive hybridization.
And a GMO variety is nothing but a hybrid arrived at in the lab rather than in the field.
Read the book “Wheat Belly” hybridization isn’t good for humans either. The hybridization of wheat is contributing to obesity and chronic disease.
I don’t buy organic because here it is a scam to increase the price. I am very selective about any produce I buy in a supermarket though and buy nothing not grown in the US except bananas.
Any pesticide that kills bugs will kill people so in my garden I use natural products, soap, peppermint oil, Epsom salts, Diatomaceous Earth, etc.
I will not buy or eat corn, I grow my own and freeze it. If birds, chickens and squirrels won’t eat GMO corn unless nothing else is available, I don’t need to eat it either.
Sorry, but I haven't seen a food "expose'" in thirty years that wasn't paid-for (or politicized) propaganda.
This book may be the exception. But I also know that if wild wheat had not been hybridized, it couldn't serve as a cultivated food source. The entire world isn't facing starvation because food grains are hybridized.
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