Never eat anything bigger than your head.
Posted on 05/18/2006 6:00:09 AM PDT by Momaw Nadon
Rule #1: Only ever eat foods from your native planet.
(Sorry, Moon Pie fans, this leaves you out. Except, of course . . . )
Translation "Damn now we have to cost compete with Wal-Mart, how ever will Whole Foods and other upscale grocers be able to continue selling produce at elevated prices?"
Never eat anything bigger than your head.
Organic is a huge scam. It was a big mistake for the USDA to wade into it.
Don't ever watch a farmer spread manure on his field.
Damn, that's nasty!
Be a patriot! Grow a lot of your own vegetables! I do & they taste better than the ones in the stores, they're cheaper & I know what's been put on them - also I know that I didn't help Mexico in the process.
I don't live out in the country, I grow veggies in my flower beds & containers on my deck - takes a little effort, but I enjoy piddling with the plants when I come home from work.
Grow your own Victory Garden!
You have *got* to be kidding me.
In respectful disagreement, I prefer my food without pesticides.
I would love to!
However, I have a very small backyard.
Me too. You would be surprised how many tomatoes you can get off of a potted tomato plant on the deck! Also, zucchini, cucumbers & green beans, I grow on a trellis over my deck rails - I get gobs of them. A couple of pepper plants will produce lots in very little space. Right now, I'm growing leaf lettuce on the deck (until it gets too hot), I just pick the leaves off every night for a small salad & the next day, it's like the plants have doubled in size again!
It's really lots of fun.
I buy a lot of organic cereal, not because organic-ness is a concern for me, but because they don't contain High Fructose Corn Syrup (my own private bugbear). The popularity of organic food has, by extension, made it easierfor me to avoid HFCS.
Americans need to get back in the habit of eating seasonally, for the area you live in. I try to support local farmers (what's left of them) in the summer at the local farmer's market & always ask them if the produce is grown locally. When it's harvest time, I go & buy what they have a bumper crop of & freeze bunches of beans, etc. Makes good soup in the winter.
"...others worry that the entry of corporate behemoths into the organic-food market will weaken standards or squeeze out small farmers..."
Competition. Oh, the horror. There will always be a local market for small producers who offer a good product at competitive prices.
BTW, top grade "organic" truffles sell at $16,000 a kilo.
yeah, I trust Corporate America when it comes to Organic.
I used to eat whatever. Not anymore. I hate paying the cost of Organic Food at Whole Foods; but Big Food Companies/Producers are a joke.
And as a previous poster mentioned, why does everything from Mainstream producers have to have hi sugar content?
In respectful disagreement, I prefer my food without pesticides.
We have recently switched to organic milk due to the hormones. There have been discussions as to whether the estrogen in the milk is affecting boys behavior...in other words making them more emotional. I'm a woman and want my boy to be a boy.
Sometimes it seems that "organic" only means relaxed standards for insect parts.
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