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SuburbanalCuts
post Nov 6 2004, 01:16 PM
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ok, homies. Who agrees that organic food is freaking yummy? (and healthy)

It's dumb dat the shoprites and grocerie stores sell all the organic food at higher prices, when it takes less work to make organic food. (if you do it right)

My grams plants tomatoes and they taste so much better than the crap at Shoprite.

I advise everyone to make a small garden in your back yard. heh heh.

remember not to use the pesticides. laugh.gif
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post Nov 8 2004, 04:27 PM
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I'd always rather go organic than not. I agree, homegrown tomatoes are always much better than those watery store bought ones. *gag* Oh and something else this topic reminded me of, buying eggs from free-range chickens instead of the ones they keep in cages all the time. I don't know if they taste any different, some people swear by em, but I think it's important to support chicken freedom! no, really lol
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post Nov 8 2004, 10:51 PM
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post Nov 10 2004, 07:40 AM
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Personally I do not like the idea of organic food because, while I understand that those of you who buy it think it is better, what do you really gain from it?

The knowledge that maybe it is healthier than the stuff from say Safeway or Albertsons? Or the knowledge that maybe you just might live longer than some of us who don't? But what if you don't?
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post Nov 11 2004, 03:58 AM
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Its just a chance that you have to take. And organic food is better. I don' think inserting chemicals and stuff to make the products bigger and juicier is healthy at all. Maybe to some degree of nutritional value.
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post Nov 11 2004, 04:54 PM
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I always preferred organic foods, but I can't always afford them. One gallon of organic milk can run as high as $6, while the regular is $2.35, though the regular tastes as cheap as it costs, even worse.
Once you try organic, you will never want to go back.
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SuburbanalCuts
post Nov 12 2004, 12:22 AM
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QUOTE(iwuvcookies @ Nov 11 2004, 03:58 AM)
Its just a chance that you have to take. And organic food is better. I don' think inserting chemicals and stuff to make the products bigger and juicier is healthy at all. Maybe to some degree of nutritional value.
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it's not. now everything has pesticides and all dat crap. and it's dumb that organic food costs more. It takes less work to make organic food if you grow it right, so why should it cost extra?

anyway, organic food makes you live longer and less likely to die, if you know whats i mean.
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post Dec 29 2004, 02:15 AM
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Sigh....being a vegetarian I'm dissapointed when I see people not see what the meaning of organic is. You realize the FDA and USDA define organic something to the effect of "containing, comosed of, or based upon carbon". In fact, this definition is what it should be; since organic really means: "Of, relating to, or derived from living organisms" (The American HeritageŽ Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition). Thus, since we don't know of any non carbon-based life form, the definition works either way you go.

So....organic vegtables should not be trusted anymore then the cheaper one next to it unless you know the source of growing.

One last thing: the reason your grandma's vegtables taste so much better are not because they're "organic". They taste better due to freshness. Store bought vegatables were picked ranging from a week to several weeks ago depending on the season. Your grandma's crops are picked, then eaten. They are not sorted, stored, and the shipped countless times.

(By the way, it's much more labor intensive to grow thousands of acres of crops without pesticides then with them).
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post Apr 22 2005, 05:29 PM
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QUOTE(ThoughtVoid @ Dec 29 2004, 02:15 AM)
(By the way, it's much more labor intensive to grow thousands of acres of crops without pesticides then with them).
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well if people actually tryed out different things and found ways to get the same yield as with pesticides we wouldn't need them anymore. And it's been done a lot of times before (look up masanobu fukuoka as an example). Besides, lots of the insects are already developing resistances to pesticides so sometimes it doesn't even have a good effect.

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