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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
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To: spectre
I have a fig tree that produces in my Northwest patio garden. You're right, they are very good, especially when you can get one fresh off the tree in the morning. Siting is a key, but since that won't help in this instance, I'd try a fabric netting.

Some orchardists over East of the Cascade curtain use shiny tape hanging from trees and a directional motorized fan above the tree canopy to hinder the birds landing. Kinda expensive for one tree, but a person with ingenuity may figure out a cheaper alternative.

I have a Rainier cherry tree that requires NOTHING to produce a bountiful supply of cherries. However, because of its size 30', mechanical means of protection is out of the realm of possibilities. Consequentially, I haven't harvested a single cherry from the tree for over 10 years.

Crows.

Did you know America has more Crows and Deer now than since the Audubon Society started keeping records years ago?
81 posted on 06/04/2006 12:18:49 PM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: Magic Fingers

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.


82 posted on 06/04/2006 12:19:53 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon Liberty, it is essential to examine principles, - -)
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To: Armedanddangerous; dalereed
...organic, free range beer...

It exists and is very good.

Your loss, fellas and more for me.

83 posted on 06/04/2006 12:21:48 PM PDT by SquirrelKing
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

When there is such a high correlation between consumption of fruits and vegetables grwon using pesticides and Parkinson's disease, it only makes sense.


84 posted on 06/04/2006 12:27:02 PM PDT by Rockitz (This isn't rocket science- Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: bigfootbob
" Consequentially, I haven't harvested a single cherry from the tree for over 10 years.

Crows."

If the problem is crows. Just shoot a few and hang them upside down in the trees where they can see them.

Crows are very smart, and they know that something wrong in the area when they see that. They WILL stay away.
85 posted on 06/04/2006 12:27:11 PM PDT by Beagle8U (Juan Williams....The DNC's "Crash test Dummy" for talking points.)
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To: bigfootbob; Beagle8U
Thank you both for the suggestions. I am going to try the hose, or buy some rubber snakes :) And hang some shiny tape off the tree. (My neighbors will LOVE that! It's in my front side yard..LOL.)

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

86 posted on 06/04/2006 12:29:11 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife (Thank you, Minutemen)
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To: bethtopaz
When I shop occasionally in my neighboring town of Davis, California at a food coop where all the tree huggers/enviro-nuts and vegetarians shop, I can't help but notice they all look like there unhealthy, pale and about ready to fall over.

They eat organic to counter all the dope, crack, and acid they do.

87 posted on 06/04/2006 12:30:02 PM PDT by Rockitz (This isn't rocket science- Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: digger48

Organic Oreos rock! They are unbelievably good.


88 posted on 06/04/2006 12:31:17 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (My donation to the GOP went here instead: http://www.minutemanhq.com/hq/index.php)
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To: Concho

"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.


89 posted on 06/04/2006 12:32:08 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon Liberty, it is essential to examine principles, - -)
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To: Armedanddangerous

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.


90 posted on 06/04/2006 12:33:32 PM PDT by kalee (Send your senators the dictionary definition of "amnesty")
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
the organic Cocoa Puffs and Oreos

I thought organic food was grown, not processed....

91 posted on 06/04/2006 12:36:59 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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To: khnyny

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.


92 posted on 06/04/2006 12:37:08 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (My donation to the GOP went here instead: http://www.minutemanhq.com/hq/index.php)
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To: Mr. Mojo

"I was counterculture when counterculture was still counterculture."


93 posted on 06/04/2006 12:39:31 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Reaganesque; Behind Liberal Lines

Paul Newman's company makes a chololate sandwich cookie like Oreos. I think Newman's are organic, but I may be mistaken.


94 posted on 06/04/2006 12:40:08 PM PDT by kalee (Send your senators the dictionary definition of "amnesty")
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To: Armedanddangerous

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.

;-)


95 posted on 06/04/2006 12:40:08 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon Liberty, it is essential to examine principles, - -)
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To: Incorrigible

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.


96 posted on 06/04/2006 12:41:32 PM PDT by Concho
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To: Cvengr
Almost as good as 'organic' Velveeta

I'll look for it next time I want to catch organic trout. LOL

Bait is all I ever buy Velveeta for.

97 posted on 06/04/2006 12:50:49 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (DeportaciĆ³n por los todos ilegales ahora: Si, se puede!)
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To: brytlea

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.


98 posted on 06/04/2006 12:52:25 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon Liberty, it is essential to examine principles, - -)
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To: dalereed

Yes, it would be horrible if you had to eat something that wasn't supoorted by illegal immigrant labor.


99 posted on 06/04/2006 12:53:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: NYCynic

Talk about condescending.
______________________________________________
Condescending. Perfect description.

The horror is that most Lieberals don't even realize they are that.


100 posted on 06/04/2006 12:54:26 PM PDT by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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