anyone by chance have a research paper on organic foods ? i am takin some food marketing class and i have to do a research paper.. i chose organic foods.. i thought it might be easy



so.. anyone have a spare one lyin around ?

man.. you guys suck.





no health nuts here.. maybe beer nuts

My grandpa is an organic farmer. Its a bitch to grow stuff since you can't use pesticides and the damn bugs like to eat everything, so they rely on a lot of predators to eat the bugs.

Yah. Predator. Set Ahnold loose on dose bugs!



I'm a bit of a health food proponent and I own shares in a natural foods retailer called Wild Oats.

Is that where you sow your wild oats?

Not for a while now. Married, with child. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png

we went to europe last summer and the wine makes in france laugh at us because we are allowed to water our grapes. they plant thiers and let nature take its course, very different from us

All foods are organic. Unless you have an unusual digestive tract, your not going to find to much nutrition from other sources.



Food grown "organically" is a joke. Let me pay extra for food that looks like it's already half rotten. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...>/rolleyes.gif



Doing it in your own garden is a little different scale from trying to feed the general public.

How did this inane post escape my watchful eye? https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png While I generally feel that TYSON is a very intelligent person and find myself agreeing with most of what he posts, I must vehemently disagree with him here.



The "food industry" in the U.S., if not everywhere, is using pesticides, herbicides, growth hormones, and god knows what other chemicals in order to produce a profitable crop. Some of these substances are already known to have widespread negative ecological impact; others will doubtless be found to be dangerous at some point in the future (remember DDT?). No less important are the effects these substances may be having on the people who eat this chemical-laden, genetically distorted food.



Pesticide residue, mad-cow disease, BGH, irradiation, foot & mouth, salmonella, etc. etc. The list of concerns regarding our food supply is long, and I can't believe that too many people are completely unconcerned about the quality of the food that they eat. The explosive growth of "organic" foods retailers drives home this point.



I agree that some low-volume retailers stock produce that shouldn't even be offered for sale. But there are other stores that sell a lot of "organic" foods and stock very nice looking and tasting produce. Is it worth the extra cost? Who knows for sure.



The buying public should seek to be informed about what they are eating and demand that food producers discontinue the use of chemicals and practices that produce food that causes disease in humans. The best way to do this, in my opinion, is to buy "organic".



And yes, I do have a garden. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png

does my organic pot garden count?