It's called 'the free market.'
If they want to waste their money on a myth, then I say:
Posted on 12/08/2020 10:10:02 AM PST by Pining_4_TX
In short, the organic industry knows that unless they can effectively demonize conventionally grown produce by creating a consumer misconception of superior safety and health of organics, using blatantly false and deceptive marketing methods, then the foundation of the whole organic food industry and its ability to enhance sales would be impossible. Consumers would simply be unable to justify the additional cost of the produce or products based upon the facts.
Over the next few weeks, we will consider organic vs. conventional food adapted from The Myths of Nutrition Science. We will consider five typical consumer misconceptions, which leads them to believe that they must spend roughly 40% more for their food.
Organic foods are more nutritious, which they are not. Organic foods are safer, which they are not. Organic foods taste better, which they do not if both products are picked equally ripe. Organics are inherently better for the environment, which is not true. Is it even organic in the first place?
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It's called 'the free market.'
If they want to waste their money on a myth, then I say:
The USDA would never lie to us./s
I hauled some organic chickens to the butcher once. They were so sick, half of them died on the way.
If I recall correctly, organic has pesticides and all, just stopped at an early date. End of day, I don’t see and have never read a single meaningful difference between the two except the price. I also recall how many so-called organic items are not at all, just packaged to sell as such for higher profit. It is a scam all around. I’ll save my money and spend it elsewhere, maybe on a new 9mm.
Like cage-free eggs. Makes soccer moms feel better about themselves.
Those birds’ existence is in an enclosed room with many other bored birds, all pecking at each other all day long.
I prefer my food to aromatic not just organic
More ‘organic’ food is sold each year than is grown.
There were some hilarious videos back in March in April showing empty grocery aisles and displays—except for the “organic” portions, which were packed to the gills!
Guess there are not enough suckers out there...
I rarely eat non-organic produce. I buy my meat and eggs from a local farm where they allow the animals to pasture.
Besides all the praying of chemicals, I hate the fact we have over-hybridized most of our common produce so that it no longer has any flavor. It becomes very clear how much we have lost whenever I am visiting relatives abroad. Even non-organic food bought from the local produce market, has exceptional flavor.
Reminds me of a wonderful episode of the Penn & Teller series, “Bu11$h!t”. It was all about the organic food scam/religion.
What’s the RDA for Benzene?
All food is organic. The term was first defined by Friedrich Wöhler in 1828. All it means is it contains carbon, and we humans are carbon-based life and must ingest carbon-laden food stuffs to survive. If it weren’t organic we wouldn’t get any sustenance from it. Therefore food remains organic even if grown with man-made antibiotics or petroleum-based fertilizers.
It’s just another term some nitwit felt the need to co-opt and redefine to his liking and to suit his ambition.
And whenever someone goes to the effort of “redefining” a longstanding term, it’s usually indicative that they’re up to something underhanded. Like when the Left conflated “gender” with “sex” when the fact is they are completely unrelated (one is a grammatical distinction and the other is biological). Or decided that Palestinian is an Arab ethnicity when until 1967, ALL Israelis were called Palestinian, even the ones who were Jewish or Christian.
All food is organic, regardless how it’s produced. Anybody says otherwise is having you on.
Big AG got the USDA to relax their standards. Organic doesn’t mean much anymore. There’s a 15 member board that controls what non organic substances can be added to the approved list which already has over 250 non organic substances on it. General Mills, Campbell’s, Whole Foods and other big names are on that board.
The same variety of tomato is going to taste pretty much the same no matter how it’s grown. Some heirloom varieties have a lot better taste but don’t ship well or produce as much. A good keeper/shipper/producer variety of tomato that tastes like cardboard is always going to taste like cardboard.
Well, no preservatives in organic food, so if you are buying to stock up for a few weeks, it’s pointless to get organic stuff, it will just go bad in a couple days.
Agree with you totally and prefer to grow heirloom varieties versus what is called produce tody.
Fresh from my chicken eggs fed mealworms or her forage of bugs etc is an amazing experience. Intense flavor even if a bit smaller but worth it. When I lived in Oklahoma we bought fresh from the cow milk unpasteurized and I never had a problem. Neighbors sharing what they were producing was great and they were not planting thousands of acres. I have grown many things and the quality and taste is undeniable. And last learn how to “put up” your own veggies etc (can or jar) and it is amazing what you can get from even a smallish garden.
Choose what you want but all of the other items on the ingredients in the can tell me all I need to know.
The whole concept that organic is inherently healthier and can keep you healthy is a scam.
While not using chemicals can prevent any damage that the chemicals might cause, eating organic does not *heal* you.
If that were the case, mankind would not have had the death rates it did from disease and illness that have plagued it for so many eons.
Jesus spent most of His time going around healing people of all manner of things.
They ate *organic* and unrefined diets and it didn’t seem to protect them much from physical affliction.
I’ve read stories of when missionaries go into virgin places where it’s their first contact with the outside world, and likewise, they are rife with illness and a horrific infant mortality rate.
“fresh from the cow milk unpasteurized”
Tremendous flavor. Grocery store milk could never be equal.
I prefer my food to aromatic not just organic
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There was a study done some time back on how the human body uses the food it intakes. Food like ripe tomatoes (without the cod genes and all the other stuff), smells good and it is the scent that tells our body to fully process the tomato for full nutritional value, else we gain only a little bit of value from the tomato without the scent.
That’s as close as I can recall the article - if it smells good, its good for you. If it has no odor, it is of little value, except fish and shellfish which should sell only of the sea and salt - ‘fishy’ smelling seafood is rotting seafood.
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