Posted on 04/26/2022 6:16:06 AM PDT by Kaslin
P4L
“Claims that organic food tastes better or is more nutritious are not supported by evidence and certainly don’t justify the far higher prices.”
The Organic food is non-bio-engineered food that’s been protected from contact with GMO from farm to table. That, you can count on. It’s the law.
https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2013/05/17/organic-101-can-gmos-be-used-organic-products
So where are this dude’s sources?
Good info .
As someone with a ag background I know there is a huge amount of misinformation out there about modern agriculture from the greenies.
That’s the reason I go for Organic food or anything non-GMO.
I eat one banana a day.
I was skeptical about organic food until I mistakenly purchased organic grown bananas. I immediately knew the taste was superior. It reminded me of eating bananas as a child 60 years ago. At least for banana’s I’m willing to pay extra.
One interesting thing that I have noticed shopping at Kroger, which I have to shop that because the only other thing in my town is Super Walmart, the next closest town being 25 miles away and the primary grocery chain there is Kroger.
Anyway Kroger has a house brand called Simple Truth which is supposed to be more or less organic. What I’ve noticed is that while I don’t care about the organic aspect, quality of the product is a little bit better. So if the simple truth brand is the same or almost the same price as competitive brand for that product I buy it.
Organic bananas do taste better.
There are quite a few links in the original article, which did not come through to freerepublic.
Indeed, a hallmark of Deplorables is a preference for subsidiarity whereby local trumps global (pun intended). I've found that my local farmer, local food stands, etc vastly outdo the ConAgra/ADM industrial complex.
Do I pay more? Yes. Does it taste better? After years of "going natural" I can DEFINIETLY taste the difference in meats and milk. Is it better for me? I haven't dropped dead (yet). I haven't yet planted my victory garden (last time I did it was more like the bay of pigs) but Diana's threads are the way to learn.
Sure, at Whole Foods you'll definitely find masked Karen's and Fauci fans. But if you talk to the employees you'll find a bigly number of libertarians and people who think masks etc are BS. And independent grocers carry organic and gluten-free products nowadays. But you gotta do your homework on which brands are suspect.
Thus, anytime I see some anti-organic article, I suspect the writer is confused as to just who is the Enemy.
“The #1 irrigated crop in the US is lawn grass, using over 10 trillion gallons of water per year.”
Do they think water is “used up” by watering lawns? Thoughts like that make them feel altruistic when it should make them feel stupid.
Science has largely been replaced by Political Science.
Today, “Science” means — “I want to manipulate you to behave a certain way, because social control of others is my religion.”
I like organic bananas and strawberries for the very reason you stated. The flavor seems much like it was 50+ years ago (for me). Way way better than the regular fruits. For that difference, I’m willing to pay the higher prices on these items.
If it's wrong to eat genetically modified foods, but it's right to force people to take experimental gene modifying jabs ... you might be a Democrat. LOL
:shrug: As best I can tell, all of the food that I consume is organic. Well, maybe not salt. Salt is inorganic.
Love their simple truth & private selection brands.
What is the difference between a genetically modified vegetable and a hybrid vegetable?
Thanks—and my apologies.
The irony is that often the organic bananas are the same price as the regular, more often little more than 10 cents/pound higher otherwise.
I try to purchase local organic, but price/availability preclude that most seasons.
The local Farmer’s Market at one time was a reasonable choice, but has degraded to a rip-off, catering primarily to local elites and the hippie vegan community.
The other irony is that despite organic/non-gmo, browsing such markets gives one keen insight to the unhealthy nature of veganism, an observation impossible to ignore (at least in our state).
Substitute an evening snack for a small banana to make it 2/day. Your gut will thank you for it (you’ll notice, too).
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