The organic food thing

Thought this might be the best place to put this:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/08/the-psychology-of-distrusting-gmos.html

The upshot: Fear of GMOs is all in our heads.

 

Amen! Reading about some people's wives on this thread makes me thank God for my wife even more.
We each have things we like and don't like and we don't try to limit that person in their lifestyle.
I'm also glad she is not a Organic nazi. We buy a mix of stuff. Organic kale chips along with the Funions. Bagged Tyson chicken and organic eggs. NASCAR (her) and NHL (me). We work opposite schedules, and have, since we met. So the time I spend with her (which amounts to two week nights and weekend afternoons) we aren't going to force shit on each other.

 

Haven't read this entire thread but has anyone defined what "organic" means?

Labeling of a lot of food as organic is a marketing scam because the rules are so lax, thanks to, guess what, corporate lobbying.

We try and buy locally wherever possible.

HC & I buy almost all of our meat--beef, pork, lamb and chicken-- from farm stores because we know who raised the animals. Free range chickens raised without antibiotics are significantly healthier and tastier than chickens raised in a factory. We have a 9 lb chicken that spent its life pecking around outside. It will be an event to cook and eat.

We love spring, summer and fall because we can buy all fruit and vegetables from farms or farmer markets.

We pig out on asparagus for the six weeks or so it's available in Ontario. We could buy asparagus from Peru in December but we don't.

The great advantage to buying locally is that everything tastes better.

 

I do some organic, but not all and I don't obsess about it. Always organic apples, though, because, they just taste better, like apples I used to pick off the tree in our yard growing up. Organic milk because the content of non-organic milk seems disgusting with hormones and antibiotics and, from what I've read, traces of blood.

 

One day, I'm going to die. So I might as well have that Whopper and quit worrying so damn much.

 

Well, that's what my dad said about smoking. Sure, he was going to die some day. I'd have liked to have seen him live past 61, though.

Anyway, Slate piece today, "Organic Schmorganic," makes a pretty convincing case that organic food is a waste of money:

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/the_kids/2014/01/organic_vs_conventional_produce_for_kids_you_don_t_need_to_fear_pesticides.html

 

Shit. I've always thought that, but now that I see it in Slate I might have to reconsider.

 

I don't care about where it ran. But I do care about some of the information in there about synthetic and natural pesticides, safe amounts, and so forth.

 

Slate also made a "pretty convincing case" that puppies suck and that teaching toddlers to share was a bad thing.

 

What are your specific objections to the supporting facts in the Slate column on organic food?

 

None, but A) I don't have time to do the research to see if there's other evidence the author ignored and B) there are other reasons for buying organic than just the concern about chemical-laden fruits and veggies.