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dusty117 73M

7/12/2017 11:08 am

Most people involved would say the reason for eating organics is the quality of their own life .. not saving the planet. Cancer, organ failure, etc. etc. no fun.

I don't buy organics is because I don't trust any of the stores or the producers. If you know a grower of organics lucky you, and maybe you can get a down to earth price.

And really, again with the moral preening Rush Limbaugh? Why does it have to be political? It's a personal food choice .. are you often scolded by greenies?


starwomyn 70F
8871 posts
7/12/2017 11:49 am

I have also worked Produce at Sam's Club. Explaining the two blueberry seasons was always fun. Blueberries either came from California or Chile depending on where the growing season was happening at that time. There is a window of time between the two seasons where nothing was growing. I would explain this to the irate customers and suggest they buy frozen blueberries which were picked and frozen at peak season thus sealing in the vitamins and nutrients which get lost in travel time for the fresh blueberries. I am sure it is not the same but it did increase overall sales.

Abracadabra


Nileyears 71F
4206 posts
7/12/2017 11:59 am

I have always eaten organic foods, that's how I was raised, but the word "organic" wasn't used back then. We raised our own food, cattle lived on grasses, not grains, and free roamed on 400 acres of land, the gardens were never sprayed with pesticides, fertilizers were cow, horse and chicken manures. Chicken manure can be used without composting, horse and cow crap, composted the year before it was used. Gardens were also rotated so nutrients can be absorbed into the earth, GMO crops never give the earth time to build up the soil, spray some chemicals on it and grow some nutrient dense veggies. Then spray some Roundup and pesticides on those veggies for good measure. I buy my meat from a local butcher, all grass fed Black Angus, no hormones, no antibiotics and never fed GMO grains. The meat never has a bad smell like grocery store meats, in fact, it doesn't smell at all. I raise and eat my own chickens, which may gross some people out, the killing of an animal, but I know my birds are healthier than what you buy in the store and so are their eggs. They may not get shot up with water to make the meat look plumper, but at least I know what I'm putting on the dinner table.


shuel2002 65F
5537 posts
7/12/2017 1:26 pm

Thanks for the informative post, Maisie. I haven't been buying organic but I felt I should. Now it seems that I should just continue doing what I have done all my life.

Elaine Shuel


hermitinthecity 70M
1691 posts
7/13/2017 3:54 am

The organic I have is in fresh in my garden. The rest I try to by 'Australian' if I can but the sneaky merchants mean the sticker or the can/label is made in Australia, not the product.

Judgment Day will be interesting - and all paths lead there.


Shartaun03 81F
6169 posts
7/24/2017 1:11 am

Maisie I am a late comer to your posted subject. Interesting take on organics. I guess I grew up on organics as we didn't use pesticides and the chickens were range free although they did get with a grain type for chickens which my parents made up. The eggs were wonderful and were a bright colored yellow. We probably an acre for a garden. I spent my summers working in the garden and then helping my mother to can all of the vegetables as there were no freezers around in those days. She also dried the corn, peas and the green beans. So I guess we were organic farmers back in the day.