Organic Food - Page 3

Titus2woman · #21 09-14-2012, 06:37 PM

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.

Titus2woman · #22 09-14-2012, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by RandyWayne

From the article:

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.

Fresh is seriously important. I can eat an ear of corn grown in my own garden raw... and it's delicious! Try that sometime with corn from the store! But I am not sure why you are under the impression that organic food does not keep... fresh produce only lasts so long whether it was sprayed or not... Organically grown produce behaves the same way when canned or frozen as non-organic.

Things like breads that have to be altered in ways that would freak you out if you only knew to sit around 10 days... Well they should be made/bought more often.

And if you don't believe that real food tastes better I'll mail you a dozen free range eggs. After eating that tasty deep orange globe shaped yolk you will never be able to taste the flat pale yellow thing that passes for an egg yolk again. And just a few glasses of fresh milk will forever ruin you for the cooked, bleached, spray dried from China milk added white water that is store bought milk again.