Posted on 08/26/2012 4:29:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Cue the Gallagher geico commercial
So, non-organic food is inorganic?
I always thought the way to tell if produce is organic was to be sure it is small, pest damaged, and swarming with e-coli from all the s*** they dump on the fields. It should also cost 2 to 3 times more than the nicer looking and nutritionally identical produce grown with modern agricultural practices.
I recently went to a lecture on grape/vineyard production and someone asked a question about organic.
The guy giving the lecture said “organic” is just a label to make the consumer feel good, and that’s it.
He went on to say that food production in the US is so tightly control there is nothing that is not technically organic but most people don’t want to go through the process of applying for the certificate because it cost so much.
So that’s one/his opinion, I am not a farmer so I can’t say for sure but it sounded reasonable.
Well, most regular supermarket vegetables are subsidized by illegal immigrant labor. People are angry about paying a tiny bit more for vegetables, but then they don’t like illegal immigrants, which they are causing.
Fools eat organic. And free range and whatever else. Fools.
You support completely unfettered illegal immigration?
Getting fleeced by the faux ‘Organic Grocer’?...Yeah, there’s an app for that..
Uh, unless you eat rocks, your food is organic.
I agree. Raise anything you want and when you take it to market, put an “organic” sign on it, and up the price.
Yes, I said so for years.
I ALWAYS choose inorganic foods, only eat organic when the real stuff isn't available.
Most all food is organic. Besides sodium chloride and water, what common food substance is not organic?
Organic means “wormy”
Have you ever had a supermarket tomato? They were picked green three months before, gassed to make them red, and bred for transportation. Why would pay any money for something that tastes awful? I wouldn’t.
Someone gave me a couple of home-grown tomatoes recently. I made them into sauce. Boy was that sauce good! So sweet!
LOL!!!
I remember reading these usenet sites years ago where the liberals were discussing ways to take the wind out of America's sails. They agreed that our food is too inexpensive and that if we were made to spend more on food we'd have less left over to destroy the Earth (or whatever). I have a real problem with that notion. I don't want to go back to the days where food was so damned scarce that oranges were given away as Christmas gifts. I think it's great that a much smaller percentage of our population is needed to grow our food. Just my take.
All food is organic; the stuff fertilized with shit is just more expensive and more likely to kill you.
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