Organic Food
05-12-2004, 08:23 PM
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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 ?
so.. anyone have a spare one lyin around ?
05-13-2004, 07:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Nan da yo!' date='May 13 2004, 02:25 AM
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.
I'm a bit of a health food proponent and I own shares in a natural foods retailer called Wild Oats.
05-13-2004, 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by 1988RedT2' date='May 13 2004, 04:06 AM
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.
I'm a bit of a health food proponent and I own shares in a natural foods retailer called Wild Oats.
05-13-2004, 03:00 PM
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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.
Doing it in your own garden is a little different scale from trying to feed the general public.
Food grown "organically" is a joke. Let me pay extra for food that looks like it's already half rotten.
Doing it in your own garden is a little different scale from trying to feed the general public.
05-18-2004, 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by TYSON' date='May 13 2004, 03:00 PM
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.
Doing it in your own garden is a little different scale from trying to feed the general public.
Food grown "organically" is a joke. Let me pay extra for food that looks like it's already half rotten.
Doing it in your own garden is a little different scale from trying to feed the general public.
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.
