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?
As one who is using diet as "complementary medicine" to fight cancer, eating organic food has nothing to do with being "elite".
Lotsa luck telling that to the presstitute at the NY Slimes. Condescending elitism is their stock in trade.
It exists and is very good.
Your loss, fellas and more for me.
When there is such a high correlation between consumption of fruits and vegetables grwon using pesticides and Parkinson's disease, it only makes sense.
I did hang some CD's from the tree, but the kids stole them..no kiddin.
Bob, I've always wanted my own Cherry Tree, but wondered if the birds wouldn't eat those as well. I guess I know NOW..I'm sorry about your cherries. Bummer :(
Thanks again, sw
They eat organic to counter all the dope, crack, and acid they do.
Organic Oreos rock! They are unbelievably good.
"Worse yet, those people are allowed to vote."
Not to worry. Those nuts also won't allow their irrupting population of couguar to be killed. So the cats are killing and eating them.
Arguably, not fast enough, though. And the last one killed and eaten was a high school boy. So much for feline fairness.
http://www.laurelwoodbrewpub.com/brewery_freerange.php
Here you go... Free Range Red organic beer
We gave a friend some Christmas specialty ale that was also labeled free range organic. I wish I could remember the brand. It had Santa on the label.
I thought organic food was grown, not processed....
I understand that cauliflower, broccoli and asparagus absorb almost no pesticides at all, so buying them organic isn't much of an advantage.
Apples, grapes, and strawberries soak em right up.
"I was counterculture when counterculture was still counterculture."
Paul Newman's company makes a chololate sandwich cookie like Oreos. I think Newman's are organic, but I may be mistaken.
I can tell you nothing about hippies, but regarding hippi-esses, I can tell you this about Woodstock hippi-esses on good authority - mine. Dip 'em in a swimming hole at the base of a waterfall on a moon lit night and they can look quite nice.
As Nugent would say, "strip 'em and dip 'em".
I am awaiting the onslaught of flaming replies from outraged Femi-Nazi's.
;-)
Certified Angus Beef is nothing but an advertizing gimmick cooked up by the Angus Beef Association. Angus cattle tend to be slightly smaller and put on more fat than do some other breeds, and as a result their meat is slightly more marbled and will occasionally grade higher.
They are bred and born and raised in the same pastures as any other breeds. They are shipped to the same feedlots, fed the same feed rations and killed at the same packing plants. They are sorted off in the coolers for the extra profit from the marketing gimmick. They are no more organic, nor are they any more nutritive than any other steer killed that day on the line.
If it makes you feel good to spend more money for your meat, then go ahead. You will only be gaining a small amount of fat for the difference.
I'll look for it next time I want to catch organic trout. LOL
Bait is all I ever buy Velveeta for.
For the ultimate in rude customers, try the Publix in Hallandale , the one near the Intercoastal.
The bluehairs there will run their cart over your feet and then take you to task for being in their way. Their bad mouth secession will escalate to accusing you of deliberately bruising the fruit they selected because their cart bounced passing over your toes.
You can take the bluehair out of the Lower East Side, but you can't take the Lower East Side out of the bluehair.
Yes, it would be horrible if you had to eat something that wasn't supoorted by illegal immigrant labor.
Talk about condescending.
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Condescending. Perfect description.
The horror is that most Lieberals don't even realize they are that.
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