The Organic Food Fad is officially dead

Federal Review ^ | Sunday, June 04, 2006

[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?

[Cvengr]

Be careful about reading messages in your Cheerios. The spirits are always trying to spook me by writing their haunts while I eat them!

[at bay]

the taste and mouth feel of slow pasteurized milk can not be beat.

Tell us more! Where did you get it?

[Beagle8U]

Do you know what it takes to get your crops certified as "Organic"?

A state inspector comes out and looks at your fields before you get the certification, if they have been fallow for a few years and have a little weeds and brush in them, you're all set. Every year after that they don't even check. You sign to agree to use no chemicals on them. That it!

Certified Angus Beef?...Any cow that has lots of black on its hide can be sold as certified.

Its the biggest joke in the world for people to pay extra for that.

[Cvengr]

Someone told me if I planted Cheerios I could grow my own donuts. They NEVER came up! ;-)

Sometimes you have to add more confectioner's powder to the fertilizer before they take.

[cyborg]

ping

[brytlea]

As always, it will be up to the consumer to do their homework. I love Whole Foods, except here in Boca, it has the rudest clientele of any store I think I have ever been in (including Walmart!)
Used to love to shop at the one in Plano (TX).
susie

[cyborg]

Certain Whole FOods are better than others in terms of the tact of clientele.

[spectre]

I have a Fig Tree, Bob, and in abit, the fruit will be ready to eat. (You'd be surprised how few people enjoy fresh figs, but I love them).

I've yet to find a way to keep the birds from eating my Organic Figs. And that depresses me. If you had a helpful hint, I'd appreciate it!

sw

[RSteyn]

Care to try to define, in scientific terms, exactly what "organic food" is?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

From a small private dairy that sadly is no longer around.

The man packed his traps and moved to Arizona where hopefully he has gone back into the dairy business.

He would heat the raw milk to 145 degrees (IIRC) and hold it there for 30 minutes and then cool and sell it. He did not homogenize it.

Oh the lush sweetness of that milk. No need to bribe the small fry to drink that stuff.

Cost about twice what you pay in the store but worth every penny.

[brazzaville]

Good afternoon.

I'm always behind the time.

I start growing my own food and it becomes passe.

Michael Frazier

[Incorrigible]

Certified Angus Beef?...Any cow that has lots of black on its hide can be sold as certified.

So is it worth it to buy meat at Rush's favorite new advertiser or should I just stick with Stop and Shop?

http://www.absteaks.com/

[RedStateRocker]

You get what you pay for.
I believe in the right of anyone to put anything into their body, as long as they accept the consequences.

As for me and the wife we'll spend the extra to buy the most additive free, free range, non growth hormone and pesticide free food available; my money and my choice; someone else wants to eat glow-in-the-dark pasteurized process cheese food, that's cool, too; it's a free country. If the organics crowd often overlaps with the moonbat left I don't hold it against 'em any more than I do when there is overlap between my fellow economic conservatives/firearms enthusiasts and wackos expecting the imminent end of the earth via the tribulation, or black helicopters. Only facts are sacred.

[Beagle8U]

"I've yet to find a way to keep the birds from eating my Organic Figs. And that depresses me. If you had a helpful hint, I'd appreciate it!"

Get an old black garden hose, cut it into 4' sections and put several in the branches of each tree. They will think they are snakes and stay away.

[brytlea]

Well, I gotta admit, it's just a whole ruder place here in S. FL, but Whole Foods seems to be the worst. Maybe I'll just quit eating entirely! That way I know I won't be consuming anything bad.... ;)
susie

[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.

[Beagle8U]

Thats the truth. I have a friend that sells certified Angus beef. There may be some Angus in the bloodline somewhere, but they sure look just like the Holsteins he is milking to me...lol

[GladesGuru]

"Cheap" and "Organic" eh. Sounds like "jumbo shrimp", non-stop flight, etc.

If true, then the food was imported from the Turd World and costs were cut by using slave labor and what the inscrutable East liked to call 'night soil'.

[SamAdams76]

The limousine liberal set are going to be mighty dismayed that the hoi polloi will now have easier access to yet another facet of life that once only they had easy access too.

The self-annointed "beautiful people" (or "yuppies") used to lord it over the rest of us with their oh-so-trendy lifestyle only to have captalism commercialize it and bring it to the masses on the cheap.

For example, 10 years ago, you had to be a beautiful person to be able to order a "grande triple-shot skim milk latte" but now Joe Six-Pack can stroll into any one of 6,000 Starbucks outlets and order the same damn thing for under $3. Todd and Margo are simply horrified.

Used to be only the super-trendy would tool around in a Lexus or Infiniti sedan. Now not only can the average wage earner trade up to one of those models but fully-loaded "wage-slave" models like the Nissan Altima, Toyota Camry and Honda Preludes are looking mighty luxurious. Even Pontiacs and Buicks are looking pretty sharp these days and boy are the beautiful people pissed. Now they have to trade up to $80,000 cars to set themselves apart from the rabble.

They are selling sushi in (gasp) supermarkets! They are marketing Apple computers and iPods to mere clerks and laborers. Even cellphones are no longer the mark of a "yuppie on the move" for now even grandma with the housedress and senior citizen discount carries one in her purse.

And now Wal-Mart is going to be retailing healthier foods and the rank-and-file might not be snacking on Little Debbie cakes and Nacho Doritos for too much longer now. This is going to be another big setback for the limousine liberals. They just hate it when the common people are successful.