(02-26-2018 10:15 AM)NIU007 Wrote:  

(02-26-2018 07:53 AM)BadgerMJ Wrote:  

(02-22-2018 05:30 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(02-22-2018 11:20 AM)arkstfan Wrote:  Foodie.

Oh so the effin skill you are most proud of is the ability to taste. Congratu-effin-lations you can taste and you really believe that organic carrots taste any different than the carrots grown in the field across the road? Guess what, your tasting skill isn't nearly as refined as you thought. Cut a big salmon in half serve half of it as grilled salmon and the other half as oak fired, wild caught, North Atlantic salmon and the foodie will beg you to charge $5 more for that better half.

The entire "organic" craze is one of the biggest scams ever perpetuated on mankind.

That's an understatement.

There's really no standards for what makes up TRUE organic. Anyone can "claim" so, but it doesn't make it true.

People go to a farmer's market and see all the marketing BS (locally grown, non GMO, organic, etc.) and think they're eating healthy. What they don't get is that farmer A could in fact practice "organic" growing, but that doesn't mean his neighbor does. There's no way to stop spray "drift", run off, and various forms of insects and wildlife from "infecting" those "organic" veggies.

Do I think that people should just stuff whatever down their gullets? No, but I also don't think people should fool themselves into thinking that paying 3X as much for something that may not be better, but has a better marketing slogan, is the way to go either.

For me, the term organic. It's produce - it's freaking ALL organic. Come up with another name for it.

That gets me like the term "free range".

Free Range = Animals are eating whatever sh*t they can forage regardless of whether it's good for them or not.

I'd ask those people who "swear" by Free Range, which is REALLY more healthy, an animal who's been fed a diet based on nutrition or one that eats something that happened to be laying on the ground.

If you don't want to eat "factory" food, I get it, I was raised on a farm, but just letting a chicken fend for itself isn't any healthier.