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Do you eat organic food?

Do you eat organic food?

  • Yes all the time

    Votes: 3 5.5%

  • Yes most of the time

    Votes: 4 7.3%

  • Sometimes

    Votes: 18 32.7%

  • Not that often

    Votes: 18 32.7%

  • No never

    Votes: 12 21.8%
  • Total voters
    55
You left out my choice, which is "who cares?" Organic food is a scam. It's no more healthy or nutritious for you than any other kind, it wastes land to produce, is arguably worse for the environment than non-organic food and it generates a bunch of holier-than-thou retards who try to evangelize their ignorant ways to the world.

But there's a bunch of people out there getting rich off of it. Guess that goes to show that stupid sells.
 
Baralis said:
Thats not entirely true. While it may not have any nutritional benefits which should have been obvious you will not get alot of the harmful chemicals that are applied to non-organic crops.
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Entirely false. In fact, you're more likely to get sick due to the piles of germ-breeding manure that they spread over the crops as fertilizer than you will by the safe chemical fertilizers that modern-day, efficient farms use.

Organic food is a scam.
 
WI Crippler said:
I will say there is something to be said for picking out a cow/sheep/pig, and sending it directly to a local butcher. If you have a deep freezer, and a couple of buddies willing to go in with you on a cow, you can get alot of quality meat for cheaper(in the long run) than buying meat at a grocery store/farmers market. My boss used to send me to the county fair and had me buy a couple of animals, and split all the cuts up with his employees.
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I'll agree with you to some degree. My father-in-law used to own a dairy and they'd slaughter cattle, both dairy cows and better meat cows and fill up cold lockers that we used to get the pick of. You'd get every possible cut from the cow, from prime rib to hamburger and we used to have a freezer full of meat all the time, we couldn't eat it fast enough.

Of course, doing it that way, you start to get burned out on it pretty fast. At one point, we were eating steak 3-4x a week, then we got so tired of it that we stopped going up to the storage lockers at all.
 
Anima said:
Hhm, that just sucks. I'm in a biggish town surrounded by lots of little rural villages, and we have one every week.
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Same here, we have one every single Thursday evening and from what I understand, they're trying to do them on Saturday mornings as well. I can go and get fresh fruit and vegetables any time I want, I just couldn't care less if it was "organic" or not, frankly if given a choice, I'll pick the stuff that isn't.
 
Laila said:
I am very lucky
The old owners must have loved gardening because my garden is beautiful and i didn't put in years of hardwork to achieve it.

They must have planted a whole range of fruits. Cherry tree is my favourite one tho

I collect the apples and strawberries and give them to my neighbours and local school :)
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I've got 10 acres of oranges, does that count?

Actually, I have avocado, lemon, grapefruit and nectarines too. Any time I want fresh fruit, I just walk outside and pull it off the trees. I planted a couple of apple trees but they're not old enough to bear anything quite yet, still a couple of years on those.
 
Coronado said:
We give our daughter organic milk. I think it's probably more desireable to give her milk that is not infused with the sorts of hormones cows are given, perhaps to stave off unusually early puberty and whatnot.

Other than that, not usually.
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That's a complete myth. Cows have the same hormones no matter what they're given, we see the exact same early onset of puberty in Europe where cows are not permitted to be given hormones as we do in the United States. It has nothing to do with the cows.

If you want to stave off early puberty, don't let your daughter get fat. That's what causes it. The female body will not start menstruating until it's physically able to handle childrearing, that's why professional gymnasts often don't hit puberty until they stop competing and put on weight.

You ought to stop listening to the myths out there and learn the reality.
 
Cephus said:
That's a complete myth. Cows have the same hormones no matter what they're given, we see the exact same early onset of puberty in Europe where cows are not permitted to be given hormones as we do in the United States. It has nothing to do with the cows.

If you want to stave off early puberty, don't let your daughter get fat. That's what causes it. The female body will not start menstruating until it's physically able to handle childrearing, that's why professional gymnasts often don't hit puberty until they stop competing and put on weight.

You ought to stop listening to the myths out there and learn the reality.
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Come on. Enough with the myth busting. As I think you alluded to earlier, even scam artists need to make a living. :rofl

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TOJ said:
Come on. Enough with the myth busting. As I think you alluded to earlier, even scam artists need to make a living. :rofl

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as do politicians and wall street financiers....right?:shock:

Marketing/advertising is the real scam. They convince us we NEED things that we don't. Before WW1, they used the word propaganda openly to describe their jobs...

Question for all of you guys, where do you get fresh pecans? The packaged pecans in the stores are usually dark, and taste like they are years old.
None of them taste or look like the ones we used to get in east Texas when I was a kid. Our neighbors had a farm in the family and used to bring us burlap bags full of the best pecans, still in the shell, of course.
 
I think many of you NEED to see the movie, "Food Inc."

If this country did not spend so much money subsidizing the growth of corn, we would have a healthier food supply and a healthier population. Industrial corn becomes corn syrup, ethanol and corn fed beef, pork chickens.

Corn fed animals in close quarters will become diseased and must be dosed with anti- biotics to prevent illness. Corn is an unnatural food for most animals.

Corn syrup fed people become fat and sick with diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

Soil inflicted with industrial grown corn is soon washed away and must be augmented with large amounts of chemical fertilizers.

Chemical fertilizers are made from petroleum. It is only a matter of time before oil prices go up dramatically and our industrial food system starves rather than nourishes.
 
I eat is it sometimes, but it's another business like anything else. It is no more or no less bull**** than any other business.

Processed food is what adversely impacts health anyway, whether it's organic or not.
 
American said:
Processed food is what adversely impacts health anyway, whether it's organic or not.
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Yeh, that is where the corn syrup comes in.

Also, some foods have a heavier chemical load than others. If you ever read how California strawberries are grown, you would never again buy a pint.
 
Cassandra said:
Yeh, that is where the corn syrup comes in.

Also, some foods have a heavier chemical load than others. If you ever read how California strawberries are grown, you would never again buy a pint.
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Maraschino cherries are my favorite story about processing....no cherry is naturally that color, so they add food coloring, but first they have to "bleach" them to take the color, and the bleaching process takes out flavor and sweetness, so they add flavor and sugar back in.
Damn things could have started out as grapes or olives for all we know...:lol:
 
UtahBill said:
as do politicians and wall street financiers....right?:shock:

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What do politicians and wall street financiers have to do with organic food? Would you be so kind as to make the connection so we know what the hell you are talking about? :confused:

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TOJ said:
What do politicians and wall street financiers have to do with organic food? Would you be so kind as to make the connection so we know what the hell you are talking about? :confused:

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YOU said, even scam artists need to make a living, and I responded to include other charlatans.
Advertisers/marketers/politicians/Wall street types and organic food producers, all are intent on selling us things that most of us don't need. They charge quite a bit for their services, which are seldom in our best interests financially.
A few years back a consumer group tested organics vs. regular at several stores, and even some farmer's markets. Those touting their organic methods were no less polluted with chemicals than the regular stuff.
Amazing what you can learn from Television news....
 
UtahBill said:
YOU said, even scam artists need to make a living, and I responded to include other charlatans.
Advertisers/marketers/politicians/Wall street types and organic food producers, all are intent on selling us things that most of us don't need. They charge quite a bit for their services, which are seldom in our best interests financially.
A few years back a consumer group tested organics vs. regular at several stores, and even some farmer's markets. Those touting their organic methods were no less polluted with chemicals than the regular stuff.
Amazing what you can learn from Television news....
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I was referring specifically to those that hawk organic food with all the claims of it being healthier.

Most of the high dollar marketing is not going to organic food or free-range chicken. When's the last time you saw a TV ad for free-range chicken eggs? Again, what do politicians and wall street financiers have to do with organic food?

If someone is stupid enough to buy seomthing they do not need simply because some marketing type tell they should, they got just what they deserve.

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UtahBill said:
Maraschino cherries are my favorite story about processing....no cherry is naturally that color, so they add food coloring, but first they have to "bleach" them to take the color, and the bleaching process takes out flavor and sweetness, so they add flavor and sugar back in.
Damn things could have started out as grapes or olives for all we know...:lol:
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I always wondered why they tasted absolutely nothing like cherries, and now I know.
 
WI Crippler said:
She had some peanut butter that was ground up right in front of you, that was supposedly organic. Like you pull a little lever, and it grinds up or squeezes out peanut butter. It did taste different. Bad enough I told her to never buy that **** again.
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Just have to add some sugar and/or salt like the brand names do. Otherwise, it tastes like - peanuts. Remember to stir it before each use because the peanut oil seperates quickly.
 
I only eat organic when I am at my mom's house, as that's the stuff she gets.


And for someone who fed her children all kinds of junk and crap, she sure is on some kind of high -organic food- horse, preaching to me about not feeding my child organic.
 
TOJ said:
I was referring specifically to those that hawk organic food with all the claims of it being healthier.

Most of the high dollar marketing is not going to organic food or free-range chicken. When's the last time you saw a TV ad for free-range chicken eggs? Again, what do politicians and wall street financiers have to do with organic food?

If someone is stupid enough to buy seomthing they do not need simply because some marketing type tell they should, they got just what they deserve.

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That's right

For those of us who try to eat locally grown food from small farmers, it is also about supporting the community, eating things that have not traveled all the way from California and knowing that animals have had a humane existence while they lived.

The marketers ARE clever, though. As Michael Pollan observed , with a few exceptions, a person should run the other way if a box of food makes health claims. The broccoli bin is not festooned with nutrition claims.

Since Pollan published his books and people are slowly learning about the health hazards of H.F. corn syrup some drinks advertise "real sugar"- like it is a healthy substitute!
 
TOJ said:
Come on. Enough with the myth busting. As I think you alluded to earlier, even scam artists need to make a living. :rofl
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Actually, I think scam artists of all kinds ought to be strung up by their testicles, but that's just me.
 
Cassandra said:
For those of us who try to eat locally grown food from small farmers, it is also about supporting the community, eating things that have not traveled all the way from California and knowing that animals have had a humane existence while they lived.
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Except that unless you are buying everything you eat exclusively from the local people who grow it, you never know where it came from. There is no packaging requirement to print where any food, organic or otherwise, was produced. For all you know, the "organic" food you buy in the supermarket came from Canada or Brazil or China.
 
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