[dalereed]

I refust to buy or eat the garbage.

[Armedanddangerous]

I am waiting for organic, free range beer and snickers bars.

[cyborg]

Why is organic food garbage????

[bigfootbob]

I sort of agree with you.

All of the commercially produced "organic" is inferior in both presentation, shelf life and taste to conventional commercial food.

However, as a person with two 2500 square foot hobby/commercial quality greenhouses and an additional 10000 square feet of raised beds and 20 years work of crop rotation and proper soil amending, organic growing can produce some tasty delights. However, I grow using what I call a modified technique.

My soil amendments are organic plant biomass compost and composted grazing animal poop, fish and a super secret ingredient. I use Methaldehyde around my growing beds to control slugs. Shotguns to control deer and various synthetics to control other critters and pathogens on my fruit trees, ornamental gardens and areas surrounding my beds when required.

I try and keep the growing medium for my vegetables free of chemicals, the rest is nonsense, IMHO.

Genuine organic farming is just not profitable. You can sell at your local farmers market, I did that for a while, but the kool-aid all the vendors drank was offensive to me. Or you can hustle restaurants, but where I live it is too time consuming and there are too few to far between to make the effort worth while. Now, I donate all of my extra to the food banks and friends. And can & freeze like crazy.

The nutritional claims made by the granola heads are as out there as their political beliefs on average.

[nickcarraway]

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

[TrogdortheBurninator]

Granted that the people that chant for this stuff are usually freaks... you can't deny the actual benefits from organic foods. Look at how we live now, with our overly processed foods, and look at the rise in obesity, hyperactive kids, depression and other metal problems (don't anyone get offended, I realize these are real problems, I'm not trying to put them down!) Look at the overly chemicalized world we live in, compare it to the 'simpler' life of generations before, with higher immune systems and better standards of living. You can't deny that eating habits have a big role in this downward slope.

[Tokra]

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.