Organic Food Myths

@mark:

I think it depends on the human.. Some label themselves as "vegan" but do not entirely follow the guidelines with fervor or in the strict sense. Maybe Cimm could speak more to the issue.

Honestly, I just think of buying food as close to the grower and for the meal I'm going to prepare.

Not really a vegan or any of the other types that might be related. But what does concern me, is the quality of the produce, manufacture of food and the types available. As such, I do like to try out many different foods, cooking styles (yeah, burned cook pan some times happens) and spices.

Even vegan type dishes do interest me.

Now back to the discussion.. On your fist link Avagdu, there is one thing I can agree with. :-) Any thing promoted by a Hollywood Queen or King (I'll leave it to each person to determine the definition) who promotes a product on television of ANY kind probably does not have the best intentions or personal assurance of the users of said product. Including the Organicized Hollywood pop princesses who run around and tell us, we need to save the world by buying X product.

Sorry folks, I buy for other reasons, instead of what comes over the loudspeaker of the television OR market monitoring in the store.

Organic food to me is good because I usually trust the person who grows it, I grow it myself OR someone close to me has prepared it, so I trust they're word. Which is very unusual for me.

Had several isssues with that first piece. But it did give me some food for thought also.

From Link Two: "Fact seven: The demand for organic food is growing" Some of what was said in both sides of the argument sounded very much like marketing crap I have heard over the past few years at the local corporate organic stores. Do I agree with it or feel its worth to pay three or four times what I can buy at regular supermarkets for the same food and to "save the environment?" or the famous one from Seattle-Olympia-Portland Belt, "Can we SAVE the Puget Sound?" or "Can we save the Orca?" as an excuse.

Good, thought provoking.. But I had issues also during the reads... (Some of it hit my corporate marketing button, which in fact, the Pacific Northwest flows in quite nicely in..)