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Re: Eating Organic [Re: demiu5]
#6565346 - 02/14/07 12:47 AM (16 years, 11 months ago) |
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I think eating organic free range meat and eggs is important.
In a recent argument with a cynical ex-roommate, he was bugging me about it. Maybe im just paranoid by conspiracy - but i feel that there's a direct correlation between what we eat and "getting bigger, developing younger, and being less immune/more-sick and diseased.
I think that hormones and preservatives put into commercial meat have a great impact on our lives.
Also, organic meat usually looks better, is bigger, and tastes 10 fold better than its steroid laden, food deprived, drugged up imitator.
With fruits and veggies, i don't care so much - but i do like organic avacados and tomato's, i find their taste and consistancy to be especially better. I prefere non organic banana's..
I also think its important to recognize that.. yes, even i.. feel better about eating organic. I am not alone.. Regrettably this is a relative effect of the "pro organic" marketing, and the movement as a whole. Its a similar psychology to "the charity effect" - when someone gives to a cause and feels better through placebo - even if the charity is mostly administration fee's.
We feel better because we're brainwashed through the industry to.
This isn't entirely true, but.. is something reasonable to think about.
What do you guys think?
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We've got a local farmers market twice a week, in the summer. Everything from organic local honey, to corn, soap, carrots, potatoes, rubarb, salsa, etc. -- really good values too.
We also have local organic poultry, beef, and buffalo (and Elk) at the local grocer!
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Re: Eating Organic [Re: zathan]
#6587563 - 02/19/07 10:18 PM (16 years, 11 months ago) |
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There was an interesting article in the paper yesterday, Actually about a lecture i sadly missed, at the university.
it was.. SO+SO vs. Monsanto.
Basically he was an organic canola farmer, and his fellow farmers GMO'd canola seed/pollen was carried by the wind into his field, where it was fertilized and obviously took over..
Anyways, Monsanto sent their *patent police* into the fields of this certain area, and sued the farmer for copyright infringement from stealing their "superior" seeds... which actually ruined his crop.
Apperently now Monsanto is working on two different technologies regarding GMO - basically making their seeds eliminate the competition in nature, and then overtaking the current crops of the same seed. (if that makes sense.)
Shitty shit to think about..
The more GMO we eat, the more chemicals we aren't informed about - the more our chemistry will change.. and alot of people suspect that there will be (and already are) correlations of disease rates.
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