Posted on 06/02/2012 1:24:50 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Does eating organic food make you a jerk?
By Dr. Dale Archer
Published June 02, 2012
| FoxNews.com
Jerk.
What image does that word conjure up? Is it your uncle Joe, who lives in a McMansion, complete a large staff to serve his every whim while never saying, "thank you"?
Perhaps your sister’s boyfriend who drives the Bugatti Veyron and talks about it to anyone who will listen?
Maybe a friend of a friend who dons thousands of dollars of exclusive designer clothing to go to the grocery store?
Or, perhaps, it's your next-door-neighbor who buys and eats organic food.
Whaaaat?
A new and very provocative study, "Wholesome Foods and Wholesome Morals? Organic Foods Reduce Prosocial Behavior and Harshen Moral Judgments," by Dr. Kendall J. Eskine from Loyola University New Orleans, indicates that buying and consuming organic foods can actually induce self righteousness and selfish behavior.
In other words, it can make you a jerk.
What influences someone to go organic? Organic foods in general cost more than conventionally grown foods, so why pay more for already expensive food?
Some controversial explanations are provided by the author of the study:
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Thaaanks!
You could also look at Gibbons’ books as essential reading for survivalists.
Years ago, after reading one of Gibbons’ books, I dragged my wife along on a camping trip. We took no food — just Gibbons’ book. We managed to find all sorts of yummy stuff to eat. (Some of it needed to be boiled twice to remove toxins — but that's no weirder than Japanese eating blow-fish.) I've lived in remote areas most of my life (not now) & every year there were stories of people nearly starving to death, after getting lost in the bush. I had absolutely no sympathy for them. They were lost in the middle of an enormous salad bar.
LOL! I don't know. Personally, my hatred of the fraud runs pretty deep. But Monsanto, muslims, barney frank, chicoms, goldman sachs and brussels sprouts are right up there.
Sure explains a lot, doesn’t it?
One of the first lessons in Organic Chemistry is how to make an organic molecule in the laboratory from carbon and hydrogen.
Someone told me once that the definition of organic has changed because of legislation the redefines it. Kind of like how the government declared pi to be 3 and marriage to be a union between any two (or more?) people.
Truthfully, there are more sprays that are applied on so-called organic produce than on conventionally grown produce. The products labeled for application on organic fruit fill a booklet that is at least 35 single-spaced pages.
So the idea that there are less chemicals applied to organically grown produce is a fallacy. It is just that the chemicals that are applied are approved by whatever government agency that controls that area of agriculture.
Finally, most growers go into organic growing because of capitalism. That is, they perceive that their profits will be greater than if they were conventional growers.
But, as far as there being more or better nutrition in organic produce than conventionally grown produce, that argument is specious. Studies have proved otherwise.
Hilarious!
Diatomaceous earth is also excellent for ridding one’s home of bedbugs. I first heard about it because I had the misfortune of living at a place last year that was infested.
Around here, gunpowder-grilled tomatoes are considered a delicacy.
Its used as an anti caking agent in food. I rub it into my dogs hair after giving them a bath to prevent fleas and ticks.
Its completely natural and is a common ingredient in many pesticides. It works especially well on soft bodied critters like snails and slugs.
The only real threat is inhaling it in quantity.
My way is 80% organic for my fruit trees. I maintain the soil humus at a high level. I do not spray anything. Fertilizer...I am not using horse or cow poop. I use the more expensive high quality NPK fertilizers where the nitrogen is coated and time release... that also include minor trace elements like zinc and iron.
I despise the eco-scammers at the EPA, the job killers who give organic and ecological a bad name
I understand the science of the definition of the word “organic” but the new commercial definition, as different as it is today, has meaning. There are less neurotoxic ingredients in USA ogrganics than in non organic.
One can read the convoluted rules from the USA government here:
But even after seeing how complex the laws actually are, one can see that LESS CRAP is on the organic crops that the nonorganic. It’s not a question of perfect.
Also, there are individual farms that are truly concerned about healthy produce or animals and you can visit them and see how they don’t just try to loophole their way around USDA laws; they go farther than the laws to grow and raise food tht is as natural and healthy as they can.
It makes a huge difference.
To me, it’s like have two bowls of strawberries before you and your hostess sprinkles round up over one bowl. Which one do you wish to sample from? Even if the hostess says you can have MORE from the round up bowl (cheaper price)? Even when you know Round Up causes Alzheimer’s?
I manage to understand the difference without needing to constuct stawmen, but that's just me.
I think my mom feels about like you do re our diet. But people should be allowed to eat and ESPECIALLY feed their kids as healthy as possible. They should have shopped with their own money on their own for the things they wanted. The polite thing for them to do is to laugh, shrug, and call themselves crazy So as not to offend you, her hosts.
Liberals are self righteous jerks. I don’t care what other people eat but I want to eat for my health. I like freedom where everyone can choose their own diet.
Oh, and you are right to avoid some of the larger organic milks. You might like this organic dairy report. Pretty cool.
Drink a glass of organic crude oil and see if it doesn’t leave you feeling jerky.
Whenever I see a one in traffic I act like I am surprised, then I mimic as if I am busting out laughing. If someone is riding with me I point at the car as if I am showing them something hilarious. Which isn't hard.
I would fear getting t-boned by a 49cc motor scooter if I drove a smart car.
Otherwise, “smart” cars = thin the herd.
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