I agree, it’s largely a scam. I buy “organic” kale at Ralph’s, but only because, for some reason, it’s the only way they sell it, and it’s reasonably priced.
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I agree, it’s largely a scam. I buy “organic” kale at Ralph’s, but only because, for some reason, it’s the only way they sell it, and it’s reasonably priced.
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To a large degree it is a scam. Here in Europe the CAP funds pay farmers to bury produce to keep prices up (or as they would rather say “stable”). Ever since the USA and the EU stopped sending food to Third World countries the fact is there is massive over production. Hence “organic”.
I agree that sometimes the vegetable selection, or whatever, is more varied. Sometimes the produce is better. But usually “organic” or whatever it means isn’t the reason. I wouldn’t not eat it out of principle, its just food, but I wouldn’t pray a premium price unless I saw a good reason for it. Other than a word in a label.
The only thing that I buy “organic” is brown rice. Because pesticides can accumulate in the bran.
Other than that I’m saving my money.
This battle happened in the 70-80s too over the labels ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’.
Formic acid is a surfactant (makes things foam less).
Adding food grade purified formic acid to food preparation leads to “Artificial flavoring”.
Ground ant contains formic acid. Adding ground ant leads to “Natural flavoring.”
The “chemicals” have to go through validation processes that the ants do not. It is much like the “Medicine” versus “Vitamin” distinctions.
There was a PBS show (it may only have been the local PBS) about “Best methods to farm organically.” It was full of precisely the same sorts of silliness on steroids. “No, we can use the -processed- peat moss that has the heavy metals leached out – the leaching process is non-organic!” No, they didn’t say precisely that, but that’s the net result. The ernest expressions and beliefs of the people involved that hacking peat moss out of the bog -directly- and then using it was 1000x better than ‘factory peat moss’ were just boggling.
There is a man operating a street-side hamburger stand in Times Square who is watering down the soda fountain, adding more fat to the hamburger, and generally doing all he could to sell the least “product” for the most money.
The city health inspectors were “all over” his operation, but there wasn’t anything they could charge him with because everything he was doing was “inside” the regulations. Nevertheless, he got a phone call from De Blasio’s office demanding that he make full disclosure of what he was doing in his posted signs.
The man complied with this request and his business in Times Square soared. The sign read “All food and drink products served have been adulterated to the full extent possible.”
High fat burgers are tastier and healthier. More adulteration of that sort, please.
And (currently) cheaper as well. It’s win/win/win. I love to buy untrimmed tri tip, sous vide it, slice into steaks and sear, and render the suet for cooking the greens.
I deliberately avoid foods that advertise being “GMO free”.
With all of this Whole Foods “virtue signaling” of “organic”, “fair trade”, “free range”, “sustainable”, “internationally monitored elections” and “allows unrestricted immigration”, I want to buy and eat food that I can feel good about.
I want food that is labeled “NGO free.”
So, effectively “vice-signalling.” I’m on board, I’m all for vice…
All food is based on organic chemistry, whether it carries the USDA “organic” marketing label or not. If you don’t eat organic food, what do you eat?
Yes. Well, except for the drinks side.
I routinely ask for inorganic water.
There is always bafflement.