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.
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.
When there is such a high correlation between consumption of fruits and vegetables grwon using pesticides and Parkinson's disease, it only makes sense.
I thought organic food was grown, not processed....
I don't think it is necessary a "liberal" thing to eat organic food. Broken clocks are right twice a day and people who say that organic food is good for you are in fact right. As a matter of preference, I have no problem driving halfway across town to the organic market and paying more because I know I'm getting what I pay for. At our house, we now buy almost all of our meat and a majority of our vegetables at the Fresh Market. For things such as beer, chips, and other products which really don't vary from store to store, there's still Food World.
To tell you the truth, I'm willing to pay extra money for meat when I know that the animals were not shot up with growth hormones during their lives, and I'm much more willing to eat produce, even if more costly, which I know has not had some genetic engineer screwing around with it's DNA. At first I was skeptical about this organic food mess, but my in-laws turned me on to it, and I must say, I did feel better and more energetic then I have before.
I applaud Wal-Mart for their decision to start carrying organic food. Doesn't mean I'm going to buy it from them, but I do think it's better for you, and the more people you get to at least it, the better off we are. You know, when you hunt, kill the animal and bring it home, by theory, you're eating organic food, because the deer I assume, has not been shot up with growth hormone, and he's eaten natural food. The same for fish that you catch, scale then cook. For the same reasons that I like to eat venison I like to eat food from the organic market. I don't think that makes me uppity, or liberal or anything else, it's just a personal preference.
Organic farming and ranching is nothing new.
It is the way American Farmers used to farm and raise poultry and livestock more than 50 years ago.
So it is not a fad, it is a rebirth of traditional methods of farming.
I would like to see the single family farms come back and edge out corporate farms. There are places where this is happening and organic is the movement that helps the small farmer. For example as an organic basil or lettuce farmer, you can contract sell a whole years harvest to a coop of local restaurants. Organic produce, when farmed well, is tastier and texturally more pleasing to the palate than massed produced produce.
Small farms also have a beneficial social effect. It makes people more conservative in their political views and it teaches the young the value of hard work.
Regardless of what the name "Organic" implies, you can still get a case of E-Coli from vegetables fertilized from "organic" cow manure.
Here in the "granola belt" of Western Wash. State there has been a big proliferation of organic food retailers. No big surprise there. It's gotten to the point where one of the local yuppie/upscale supermarket chains was driven into bankruptcy. Even the "blue collar" supermarket chains here have two or three aisles for organic and "natural" foods. There is a second Whole Foods being built near me about 10 miles from where another one opened a year or two ago.
I prefer organic for certain produce...things like strawberries for example. Organic processed foods --- organic potato chips and tortilla chips, etc --- are overpriced and often funky tasting to say the least. I'd rather buy a quality locally-produced brand, whether it is organic or otherwise.
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Mother Nature has come up with some nasty chemicals all on her own. Just because it didn't come out of Dow laboratories doesn't mean it's good for you.