Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The Organic Food Fad is officially dead
Federal Review ^ | Sunday, June 04, 2006

Posted on 06/04/2006 11:08:53 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

The New York Times reports that Wal-Mart, the bane of all limousine liberals and aging hippies, has entered the "crunchy granola" market:

Beginning later this year, Wal-Mart plans to roll out a complete selection of organic foods — food certified by the U.S.D.A. to have been grown without synthetic pesticides or fertilizers — in its nearly 4,000 stores. Just as significant, the company says it will price all this organic food at an eye-poppingly tiny premium over its already-cheap conventional food: the organic Cocoa Puffs and Oreos will cost only 10 percent more than the conventional kind. Organic food will soon be available to the tens of millions of Americans who now cannot afford it — indeed, who have little or no idea what the term even means. Organic food, which represents merely 2.5 percent of America's half-trillion-dollar food economy, is about to go mainstream.

With organic food about to become as "mainstream" and "middle America" as Ford Explorers, Kraft singles and "American Idol," how long before the so-called "elites" find it no longer has the same "counterculture" appeal as Volvos, brie and NPR?


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agriculture; fads; food; grocery; organicfood
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 181-200201-220221-240241-249 last
To: Ditter

I hadnt' thought about the ethanol thing, but yeah, it would be great. I think corn sweetners may be far worse for us than sugar. Of course, we eat too much of all of them!
susie


241 posted on 06/05/2006 9:31:08 AM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 240 | View Replies]

To: Incorrigible

242 posted on 06/05/2006 9:33:44 AM PDT by GSWarrior
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: dalereed
I refust to buy or eat the garbage

So, you like your milk and other dairy products full of female hormones? Because unless you buy organic milk - that's what you're getting, along with pesticides and antibiotics.

They pump the cows full of artifical female hormones to get them to produce more milk. Those hormones are in the milk that you drink.

If you're a man who drinks that hormone-laden milk, you might want to keep an eye on your breast size.

243 posted on 06/05/2006 9:43:34 AM PDT by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Tokra

"If you're a man who drinks that hormone-laden milk, you might want to keep an eye on your breast size."

Total BS, I drink over 2 gallons of whole market milk every week and have for over 60 years plus at least a gallon of ice cream a week and have no ill effects.

I won't eat their crappy grass fed beef either.


244 posted on 06/05/2006 11:57:33 AM PDT by dalereed
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 243 | View Replies]

To: mtbopfuyn
...grow your own

yes, buddy...!

245 posted on 06/05/2006 12:05:41 PM PDT by martin gibson
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: brytlea

I have a bread machine that I use for mixing and the forst rising, then I switch to glass pans. I do the second rise out of the machine, and bake it in the oven. I don't like the big square size the machine makes...


246 posted on 06/05/2006 12:10:24 PM PDT by sissyjane (Don't be stuck on stupid!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: sissyjane

YOu must have the same kind of bread maker I have. I used to love to knead it myself, but I have arthritis in my hands now, and it's hard to get thru the entire process.
susie


247 posted on 06/05/2006 12:23:10 PM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 246 | View Replies]

Well I don't know about completely organic but we just finished off beef our friend raised for us up in Lake County.

Now my freezer is full with two hogs we recently had butchered.

Yea they were fed commercially bought food to fatten them up but no extra BS to contaminate them. Great food.

When the kids were younger we had a herd of dairy goats and lots of whole raw milk and yogurt. (When we had milk cows for a year or so we made butter too.) Not to mention young bucks to eat also.

Now we have eggs from free range chickens (they just won't stay in the enclosure!) The yokes are dark orange. It's amazing the difference between these eggs and store bought ones. I would like to eat the young roosters (some of the eggs hatch) but the milkmaid won't hear of it. We didn't let her name the pigs...

In a month or so we will have lots of produce from the gardens also.
248 posted on 06/05/2006 5:45:14 PM PDT by Syncro
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 247 | View Replies]

To: dalereed
Total BS, I drink over 2 gallons of whole market milk every week and have for over 60 years plus at least a gallon of ice cream a week and have no ill effects.

It isn't BS. They only started using female hormones on dairy cows recently - not while you were in your formative years. If you are 60, then when you were growing up - it wasn't a problem. At your age those hormones probably aren't going to affect you much, but for a young boy - pumping him full of estrogen and other female hormones during adolescence is not a good idea.

Researchers say that female hormones in milk have caused American girls to hit puberty much earlier than in the past. It is not unusual for 9 and 10 year old girls to start menses.(old enough to bleed - old enough to breed) It can be directly blamed on hormones in our dairy products.

249 posted on 06/12/2006 11:19:57 AM PDT by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 244 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 181-200201-220221-240241-249 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson