Posted on 03/21/2016 6:33:08 PM PDT by MtnClimber
I don’t buy organic foods. In fact I specifically avoid doing so. It’s not my place to tell anyone else what to do, but I’d like to lay out three, seriously considered factors that have shaped my personal stance on organic: 1. Informed confidence that we are safe buying “conventional” foods 2. Recognizing that some of the best farming practices from an environmental perspective are not always allowed or practical under the organic rules 2.An ethical problem with the tactics that some organic advocates and marketers employ which seriously misrepresents their “conventional” competition...... As for the safety issue. When most people hear the word “pesticide,” they imagine something scary in terms of toxicity to humans and the environment. The reality is that modern agriculture employs an integrated suite of non-pesticidal control measures, and the actual pesticides used today are mostly relatively non-toxic to humans. Organic farmers also use pesticides, and the products they are allowed to use are constrained with few exceptions by whether they can be considered “natural.” That is not a safety standard since many of the most toxic chemicals known are “natural.” Like all pesticides, these natural options are subject to EPA scrutiny, and so the pesticides that organic farmers are allowed to use are “safe when used according to the label requirements” which is the same standard for synthetic pesticides allowed on conventional crops.
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I Wonder if Chipotle has learned about safety of organics?
imho I agree with you. When I order vegetables & other “stuffs” from my local market I specifically tell them “non-organic” & they deliver,too!
Thanks for your posting
Today I bought a large can of mashed peas.
Forgot how tasty that is.
Going to add it to my prepper stockpile.
#4 When 1/3 of the world is starving I have no right to purchase foods that are produced by methods that reduce yields by as much as 2/3’s.
Buying organic increases starvation
I avoid ‘organic’ because it is a marketing fluke. If I want organic I grow it myself or go to the farmer’s market. I usually don’t have to. We are blessed with neighbors who bestow their veggie bounty on us. Boy, I love it. Especially ‘maters. And I return my awesome ‘mater soup back them. :)
Toadstools are organic.
Eat the least amount of neurotoxins possible. Today. That’s organic, especially if the produce is thin skinned. If not for yourself, for your families. Neurodegenerative diseases when you age are very hard on your kids.
The one most important fact about what to eat, barring not having enough, is EAT CLEAN. Eat healthy animals, and produce grown in the healthiest soils and least amount of pesticides and herbicides.
Don’t be fed a bunch of bull. Organic right now is better than non, unless you know the farms. Thick skin, don’t worry about it being organic. (Potato, onion = thin skin, all berries = very thin skin, avocado, orange, banana = thick skin)
Organic = Bugs.
My cousin is a pathologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering. When I told her I had cancer, the second thing she told me was eat all organic. Luckily, we can grow a lot in our back yard.
I don’t buy organic vegetables either. If they are truly organic they are fertilized with poop! I don’t eat poop!
“Organic right now is better than non”
No, no it is not. You keep telling yourself that, but you don’t know it. It is why liberals believe the crap they do: Ignorance and arrogance. Ignorant of the facts and arrogant enough to believe everything they think.
Thanks, but no thanks.
I can afford it and I buy what I want for health reasons of my choosing.
Plus the reasons are silly. If there was no market for organic food, no one would grow it.
If someone else wants to consume massive amounts of neurotoxins and glycophospate, I support their decision to destroy their health. And it is their money, after all.
Complete bull crap. Worked on an organic farm. Is Forbes being paid by monsanto to run this due to the new labeling laws.
Including horse droppings.
I agree with you. It’s hard to tell if “organic” is really safe to eat.
My local grocer uses local farms, and I’m always happy with the produce they sell me.
I feel a lot better eating organic foods.
Organic just means carbon based. All our food is organic. The term has been coopted by wannabe hippies.
Organic is one tool in the tool boc. Input ag is another. Holistic is yet another.
Give it a rest, folks, and go buy whatever you want to eat.
Feeding billions of people will require mutiple tools to meet varied conditions and requirements.
Well stated.
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