Organic Food
05-18-2004, 01:39 PM
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For all you people who care about what's in your food, take a good look in your fridge. Sniff a little, too. Clean that bitch out! You know it needs it!
The wife and I cleaned the fridge out last night, and I remember saying to her something about it's funny how much people care about how clean food packagers are, but I bet most fridges are filthy.
The wife and I cleaned the fridge out last night, and I remember saying to her something about it's funny how much people care about how clean food packagers are, but I bet most fridges are filthy.
05-18-2004, 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by FDRacing' date='May 18 2004, 01:42 PM
a little agent orange can put a kick in your weed, tho.
Might be good now, but what'll your brain look like in 20 years?
05-19-2004, 09:19 AM
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Originally Posted by defprun' date='May 19 2004, 09:08 AM
Weed as the kind that grown in your organic garden and choke up all your tomatos?
05-19-2004, 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by 1988RedT2' date='May 18 2004, 02:28 PM
How did this inane post escape my watchful eye? 
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.
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.
"Organic" farms surrounded by farms that use chemicals benefit from those chemicals, whether they admit it or not. If your weedy little patch of lettuce is 5 miles from the next weedy patch of lettuce, it makes it much harder for weed seeds and insects to move onto your crop. Once those chemical using farms change over, the spread of weeds and insects is far easier.
The chemicals and toxins you're concerned about are used, no argument, but when I see some retarded housewife picking through the sad looking produce in the "organic" section and then climb back in her Expedition to drive 3 blocks home it makes me laugh.
I'll generalize here from my own observations and point out that many of these same people buy bottled water, paying up to $2 per litre. BOTTLED WATER IS TAP WATER!!! There are no laws governing what is in bottled water unless they claim it is distilled, then it must be distilled. Yet they think they're getting some kind of health benefit from buying water.
If you:
drink alcohol
smoke ANYTHING
barbecue ANYTHING
drive a car
live in, or close to, an urban area
or use household cleaning products
you've got bigger health concerns than what was used to produce your food.
05-19-2004, 10:14 AM
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actually as of now, there are no proven health benefits of organic food.. i can post a couple links later if you guys want.
the only "advantage" is that some chef's think it tastes better..
and that is what a 12 page research paper got me... booyah.
the only "advantage" is that some chef's think it tastes better..
and that is what a 12 page research paper got me... booyah.