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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
aps said:
I mostly buy organic when I'm buying fruit for my son. I have a book that points out the fruits that have the most pesticide in them. (Bananas and avocados do not have much pesticides in the fruit themselves because of the skin--same with oranges.) So I get organic blueberries, strawberries, and nectarines. I have noticed that they taste a lot better. It's not about nutrition--it's my not wanting my son ingesting pesticides.

Meat? I don't like like organic chicken. I think it tastes gross. I do buy organic filet mignon at Whole Foods--it's fantastic.

Eggs? I now buy eggs that indicate that they are laid by hens who are free to roam. Whether that's true or not, I'm with Anima. My conscience feels better.
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For fruit you should try pick your own places.
I got some strawberries a month or two back and they were delicious.

Organic can be hit or miss, as not all companies have to use farming procedures that you think are organic.
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
For fruit you should try pick your own places.
I got some strawberries a month or two back and they were delicious.

Organic can be hit or miss, as not all companies have to use farming procedures that you think are organic.
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Famer's markets are brilliant too, if anyone has one locally. Fresh, local fruit and veg, and all sorts of delicious home-made foods.
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
For fruit you should try pick your own places.
I got some strawberries a month or two back and they were delicious.

Organic can be hit or miss, as not all companies have to use farming procedures that you think are organic.
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I do need to go strawberry picking.

If I found out that what I was eating was not what I thought it was, I would be okay with it. I have been eating pesticide-ridden fruit since forever. I just became more conscious of it when I had a child. If I turned out okay, he will too if the fruit I have given him is not organic.
 
Anima said:
Famer's markets are brilliant too, if anyone has one locally. Fresh, local fruit and veg, and all sorts of delicious home-made foods.
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I've had a hard time finding the local farmers market and we live in a rural area. I hear about it from people but can't seem to locate it. :confused:

aps said:
I do need to go strawberry picking.

If I found out that what I was eating was not what I thought it was, I would be okay with it. I have been eating pesticide-ridden fruit since forever. I just became more conscious of it when I had a child. If I turned out okay, he will too if the fruit I have given him is not organic.
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I think blueberries are finally in season here, we'll make plans for it now.

I'll eat store bought it makes no difference other than taste. Farm fresh is way better with taste. If you grow your own fruit you can tell the difference.
The store bought doesn't get to ripen as much which makes a large difference in sugar content.
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
I've had a hard time finding the local farmers market and we live in a rural area. I hear about it from people but can't seem to locate it. :confused:
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Hhm, that just sucks. I'm in a biggish town surrounded by lots of little rural villages, and we have one every week.
 
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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The biggest town near me has about 30,000 people and that is were the Farmers market is.

We went visiting a historical site this weekend but I may go find that place this coming weekend with some blueberry picking. My kids love outdoorsy stuff as do I.
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
The biggest town near me has about 30,000 people and that is were the Farmers market is.

We went visiting a historical site this weekend but I may go find that place this coming weekend with some blueberry picking. My kids love outdoorsy stuff as do I.
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There's a hedge in my backgarden that grows blackberries, as well as a rhubarb patch. The nieces and nephews love picking when they come to visit, and it gets them out in the fresh air, so it's pretty much win-win that way.
 
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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Asheville's Earthfare, or was it the other one (Green Life, maybe?)



I, personally, prefer non-hydrogenated peanut butter. I don't eat lettuce (only cabbage), so I don't really care about the Organic lettuce.

To me, free-ranged chicken and turkey tastes better than it's alternative. Chicken is not chicken. Same goes for meat, a Happy Cow tastes better than a non happy cow-- just how it works.

If you give me the option between an "Organic" $5 pint of Chicken Broth vs a $2 pint of Harris Teeter Chicken Broth, then I will go for the non-organic one everytime.

I prefer non-brand-named almonds. I prefer fresh fruit instead of Dole's Pineapple. I prefer non-frozen items (unless it's ice-cream).

I am an "outside shopper". I shop for my groceries from the areas around the center Chips-Ahoy induced aisles... I prefer a Whole Foods over a Food Lion, but that's just me.
 
Anima said:
There's a hedge in my backgarden that grows blackberries, as well as a rhubarb patch. The nieces and nephews love picking when they come to visit, and it gets them out in the fresh air, so it's pretty much win-win that way.
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<Jealousy>

I used to have a pretty large garden and fruit patch at my old house.
I have to live in a town house now. :(

We're looking at buying our own home in about a year or so. I can't wait because I've had plans for asparagus, raspberries, blueberries and other things.

Blackberries grow wild out here. They're everywhere and practically a nuisance to some people. I love them though.
 
Anima said:
Famer's markets are brilliant too, if anyone has one locally. Fresh, local fruit and veg, and all sorts of delicious home-made foods.
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Farmers markets are just so good.
Excellent fresh vegetables and fruit.

I have a apple tree in my garden and pear. And strawberry bush :)
It is just the right time of the year and is beginning to grow so big
 
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Harry Guerrilla said:
<Jealousy>

I used to have a pretty large garden and fruit patch at my old house.
I have to live in a town house now. :(

We're looking at buying our own home in about a year or so. I can't wait because I've had plans for asparagus, raspberries, blueberries and other things.

Blackberries grow wild out here. They're everywhere and practically a nuisance to some people. I love them though.
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We live in a small village on the outskirts of a large town, so I've got the best of both worlds, really. I'm jealous that you actually have plans to grow things, though - we wouldn't have what we have now if the residents before us hadn't started them off, and the instability of the Scottish climate means you need pretty hard wearing plants if you want them to survive.
 
Laila said:
Farmers markets are just so good.
Excellent fresh vegetables and fruit.

I have a apple tree in my garden and pear. And strawberry bush :)
It is just the right time of the year and is beginning to grow so big
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Strawberrys and apples? I'd kill for them in my back garden. I'd never stop eating them. My auntie used to have an apple tree, and the apples were always totally fresh and totally different to the ones you could buy in shops.
 
Its for suckers

Organic food 'is a waste of money' - Environment - The Independent

"Sir John Krebs, chairman of the government-appointed body, said there was no evidence that organic food was healthier than conventionally grown produce. He said he believed that people were only getting value for money if they wished to pay for the holistic approach to farming.

"They're not getting value for money, in my opinion and in the opinion of the Food Standards Agency, if they think they're buying food with extra nutritional quality or extra safety. We don't have the evidence to support those claims," he said."
 
Anima said:
Strawberrys and apples? I'd kill for them in my back garden. I'd never stop eating them. My auntie used to have an apple tree, and the apples were always totally fresh and totally different to the ones you could buy in shops.
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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 :)
 
Anima said:
Strawberrys and apples? I'd kill for them in my back garden. I'd never stop eating them. My auntie used to have an apple tree, and the apples were always totally fresh and totally different to the ones you could buy in shops.
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You can do strawberries in hanging planters, they are really easy to maintain that way.

Can't you grow anything on your property?
 
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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That's lovely, Laila. I'd love to have a nicer garden, and to actually plant some of my own fruit and veggies but I don't know anything about gardening, so, yay for the farmer's markets.
 
Anima said:
That's lovely, Laila. I'd love to have a nicer garden, and to actually plant some of my own fruit and veggies but I don't know anything about gardening, so, yay for the farmer's markets.
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Ty love

Neither did i but i realised i needed to learn maintain them and i absolutely love it.
Its my equivalent of reading, very relaxing.

Can you not grow fruits in your backgarden? Too cold in Scotland?
 
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partier9 said:
Simple question and explain why.
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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.
 
Its just part of the left wings woo.
 
Laila said:
Ty love

Neither did i but i realised i needed to learn maintain them and i absolutely love it.
Its my equivalent of reading, very relaxing.

Can you not grow fruits in your backgarden? Too cold in Scotland?
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Well, we have the rhubarb and the blackberries, they do fine. Strawberries too! Just maybe I could grow less than an American could, with their warmer climate. I've never managed peppers, which I think might have been due to the weather.

We've got the Gulf Stream current on the West coast, so it's not too cold, but the weather's kinda erratic up here sometimes. Although there's bamboo and palm trees growing on some of the Scottish islands, believe it or not. The ones that are directly in the path of the Gulf Stream get pretty good weather!
 
I'm seriously craving garden fresh green beans, peaches, pears and strawberries now. :yes: :doh
 
Middleground said:
So what? That is not surprising.

But it's NOT the reason most (myself included) buy organic. What I don't want to ingest is pesticides. Also, it's better for the environment. Do you realize that there are--most likely--persicides in your drinking water?

Pesticides in Drinking Water

So yeah, I try to buy organic.
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You do realize that pesticides are good right? Without them we couldn't feed everyone, this is a very important reason to why organic food is bad.

Organic food exposed | COSMOS magazine

Norman Ernest Borlaug, the American plant geneticist who won a Nobel Peace Prize for breeding the high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties (triggering agriculture's 'Green Revolution'), is despairing of the organic fad. "This shouldn't even be a debate. Even if you could use all the organic material you have – the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues – and get them back on the soil, you couldn't feed more than four billion people."
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TO GET HIGH YIELDS from food crops requires disturbing nature to deliver just what the crops need. First off, crops need fertiliser, which is often nitrogen in the form of nitrate and ammonia, because most plants can't draw nitrogen directly from the atmosphere. (Legumes are a famous exception – their root nodules hold bacteria that turn atmospheric nitrogen into nitrate.) Second, there has to be a way of stopping all the other robust plant and insect species from competing with or consuming your crop.

Non-organic farmers make use of chemicals to achieve these goals. Just prior to World War I, German chemists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch learned to make ammonia synthetically. Their chemical reaction is still used today to produce more than 450 million tonnes of artificial fertiliser per year, and sustains the agriculture which feeds about
60 per cent of the Earth's population.

Organic farmers source nitrate from manures, gradually broken down by soil organisms. They use only naturally-occurring products to control pests, such as the elements sulphur and copper; pyrethrins and rotenone (both made by plants); BT spray and Spinosad (both made by bacteria). However, these natural pesticides are not harmless. For instance, sulphur irritates the lungs, and rotenone has been shown to cause Parkinson's disease in rats.
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Anima said:
There's a hedge in my backgarden that grows blackberries, as well as a rhubarb patch. The nieces and nephews love picking when they come to visit, and it gets them out in the fresh air, so it's pretty much win-win that way.
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I love warm blackberry pie....with vanilla icecream on it..
or leftover cold pie for breakfast.
Have to be fresh or frozen berries, tho. Canned berries taste awful...
where I grew up in east Texas, we had Dewberries in the spring, and blackberries in the summer. Dewberries are almost identical to blackberries, except they grow on low bushes instead of tall canes.
 
UtahBill said:
I love warm blackberry pie....with vanilla icecream on it..
or leftover cold pie for breakfast.
Have to be fresh or frozen berries, tho. Canned berries taste awful...
where I grew up in east Texas, we had Dewberries in the spring, and blackberries in the summer. Dewberries are almost identical to blackberries, except they grow on low bushes instead of tall canes.
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That sounds pretty good, we usually just eat them off the cane here.

Wild blackberries are way better than cultivated varieties as far as I've tried.
 
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