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Re: Organic Food
There are many things that are more important to me than organic. The first is real. I do not eat anything that has a list of ingredients, some of which I can not identify. If it can not be picked, gathered, butchered, etc, I am probably not eating it with a few exceptions. Second is fresh, the average apple in the grocery is 3 months old and that is just weird. Third is naturally grown/raised without chemical inputs, hormones, growth enhancers, etc. Next not genetically modified but the way God made it. I like heritage animals and heirloom fruits and veggies. Then there is in season and local. I do not expect to be able to get fresh citrus in the dead of winter because I do not live in the tropics. I do a lot of canning, freezing and dehydrating so we have plenty of food all year round (how I wish I lived where I could have a root cellar or cool storage) but blackberry cobbler is gonna have to do in season... cherries don't grow well here.
Feeding the world organic, maybe not but we could definitely change the fact that more than 3/4ths of what people eat was produced more than 500 miles from where they live if we could teach them that one does not have to have bananas in January. And we could cut a lot of the chemicals but we would not be able to make our food budget so small that we can all afford to have 1,000 sq ft of living space per person and a new car every 4 years.
The truth is that Americans spend a paltry 6-8% of their incomes on feeding their families if you take away restaurant food. We know it's not healthy, we know cancer of all kinds are at an all time high but we don't seem to be able to make the changes necessary to fix it... Like in so many other areas (energy use) we are lazy, spoiled and entitled.
So while no one will live forever, treating how we eat as if it does not matter is just stupid.
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