Organic Food

[BeenThinkin]

Two things I've learned from this post.

1) Some new words from the video! Wow, Randy, glad you notified us about the words. I listened closely!

2) It looks like none of us are going to get out of this world alive, especially if we eat non-organic foods!

By the way, I didn't listen to all of the video!


Been Thinkin (a lot! about what I'm fixing to eat! Is fixing a good word to use in this sentence?)

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by BeenThinkin

Two things I've learned from this post.

1) Some new words from the video! Wow, Randy, glad you notified us about the words. I listened closely!

2) It looks like none of us are going to get out of this world alive, especially if we eat non-organic foods!

By the way, I didn't listen to all of the video!


Been Thinkin (a lot! about what I'm fixing to eat! Is fixing a good word to use in this sentence?)

Fixin' to is proper English. Use it!

[BeenThinkin]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

Fixin' to is proper English. Use it!

Thanks! I'm fixin' to!

BT

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by BeenThinkin

Two things I've learned from this post.

1) Some new words from the video! Wow, Randy, glad you notified us about the words. I listened closely!

2) It looks like none of us are going to get out of this world alive, especially if we eat non-organic foods!

By the way, I didn't listen to all of the video!


Been Thinkin (a lot! about what I'm fixing to eat! Is fixing a good word to use in this sentence?)

One of the bigger, if not the biggest, point they make is the fact that it is impossible to feed the world using nothing but organic. This is totally believable considering the poor shelf life of organic stuff and the need to ship it to the four corners of the planet. Not every person is set up to have a garden.

[Bishop Cleatus]

Good, practical article I read on this topic the other day:

http://lifehacker.com/5941881/what-d...hould-i-buy-it

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by Bishop Cleatus

Good, practical article I read on this topic the other day:

http://lifehacker.com/5941881/what-d...hould-i-buy-it

From the article:

Taste: Obviously, whether organic foods taste better is a matter of, well, taste. Many people swear by the difference in organic eggs, dairy, meats, and some produce. Others say that when blindfolded, those same people wouldn't be able to tell the difference between organic and conventional. There's incredibly little data on this topic, so we'll have to leave it up to you and your palate to decide.

I would love to see a Double Blind test on this. I'm pretty sure what the results would be, but would still like to see it done.

Now having married the daughter of a Produce farmer, I do have my own thoughts on why Organic may taste better. My FIL's farm is NOT organic BUT eating stuff right out of his stand (or even the field) is MUCH better than anything found in the grocery store. The reason? It's all fresh! Stuff in the store has often been sitting warehoused for weeks or longer and most veggies lose a large % of flavor within days of being picked. Organic food, because of the fact it uses less pesticides in its cultivation, has a MUCH shorter shelf life and thus has no choice but to get from the field to your plate in a shorter period of time.

[ILG]

"You're getting promises and you're getting lies"....well, the same thing is true sometimes of medications.

I don't eat organic. But I try to eat a lot of fruits and vegetables and since I switched to almond milk rather than cow's milk, I have a lot less allergic reactions.

A lot of things are all about sales. Organic sales and pharma sales....

[RandyWayne]

Originally Posted by ILG

"You're getting promises and you're getting lies"....well, the same thing is true sometimes of medications.

I don't eat organic. But I try to eat a lot of fruits and vegetables and since I switched to almond milk rather than cow's milk, I have a lot less allergic reactions.

A lot of things are all about sales. Organic sales and pharma sales....

Better yet, stop drinking milk period. LOL I haven't had a glass (or plastic cup) of the nasty stuff for over 25 years. OK, I do eat ice cream, cheese, and enough butter to make Paula Dean proud, but nothing white that pours like a liquid.

[ILG]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Better yet, stop drinking milk period. LOL I haven't had a glass (or plastic cup) of the nasty stuff for over 25 years. OK, I do eat ice cream, cheese, and enough butter to make Paula Dean proud, but nothing white that pours like a liquid.

No, I looooove almond milk. And I drink coconut milk too. My favorite lunch is banana chocolate mint smoothies.

I eat too much butter. (I avoid margarine.)

[AreYouReady?]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

One of the bigger, if not the biggest, point they make is the fact that it is impossible to feed the world using nothing but organic. This is totally believable considering the poor shelf life of organic stuff and the need to ship it to the four corners of the planet. Not every person is set up to have a garden.

The point they make is moot. What did the world do when we did not ship products to the four corners of the planet? How did we ever survive to the 21st century?

We ate local and fresh! Neighbors sold fresh beef and pork to neighbors. People bought from the local farmer if they did not have their own gardens.

There were local dairies that collected milk from the public. My husbands mother and grandmother milked twice a day and sold it to the local dairy.

People actually had to work for their food. They had fruit trees in their backyard which produced good ripe fruit. They ate till their stomached pooched out and dried or canned the rest. People had grapevines in their yard. They made jams and jellies or dried them into raisins. What do we get now at the grocery store? I can buy peaches on sale for $1.29 a pound that are hard as rocks and tasteless. If they are tasteless...they are likewise nutritionless.

Most homes in the country 50 years ago had numerous chickens running the back yard. They collected eggs everyday and the eggs are much tastier than what is bought in the store. Now the USDA wants to make everybody with even one chicken put a chip in the chick to ID the animal and to notify them if you take it off your property.