Thread: Organic vs. Not

Do you buy organic food or do you not buy organic food? Curious. (Not looking for a debate just a poll).

JT

If I could afford it I would buy nothing but organic.

We buy any fruit that we don't need to peel in organic, and a few various vegetables. I would like to make the move to hormone-free, grass-fed beef too, but don't have the money or the space, as it tends to be sold in half-cows.

We buy organic food when possible. We also participate in a Community Supported Agriculture program that gets us locally grown organic produce, eggs and some cheese all season.

That said, we don't insist on organic food, but we like it when it's available.

it's a pretty complex thing.. organic means no pesticides or chemicals were used in growing or cultivating.. some fruits and vegetables you are safe with buying conventional anyway.. i've worked off and on for whole foods for several years and i can say it gets confusing.. there is a list of about 14 items that you should always buy organic and the rest really doesn't need to be bothered with.. i'll try to find it..

also .. buying organic t-shirts seems a bit reaching for me.

I have in the past but gave it up. I don't want to live forever, can't afford to. Here is the organic "cheat sheet".

I grew up on a dairy farm. Most of what we ate when I was a kid was grown on the farm. I had a vegetable garden that was 35' x 140' and I kept it packed full. We canned and ate stuff from the garden year round. We raised raised and butchered 100 chickens every year. We peeled our own apple and froze apple pies. We drank our own milk and we ate our own beef.

I miss that. I live in town and have a garden in my yard. Because it's so shaded, I can't grow much so I've got two plots in a community garden. I buy what I can from the farmer's market. I compost everything possible, and that includes everything I learned from the Humanure Handbook. I do what I can for health, for our finances, and for our planet. Organic is the only way that makes sense.

I always buy organic when possible. "Detoxify or Die" by Sherry Rogers M.D. convinced me.
Namaste,
Morty -_-

I prefer to buy organic. Most of our veggies are grown organically in the garden. Tomatoes and other fruits are often canned. We freeze most of the veggies. I also pay close attention to the compost pile.

We buy our meats, dairy, fruits and vegetables as locally as we can. There are lots of farms in this area of Florida and there are a few community-support agriculture (CSA) farms which we support both directly and by frequenting the restaurants that they supply.

We also avoid the corn-fed meats and corn syrup-based products as much as possible. So by those definitions we do get a lot of organic stuff, but I don't buy the organic ketchup because it has an organic stamp, I buy it because it's the only stuff without high fructose corn syrup.

Watch Food, Inc. -- it's really a great documentary about the U.S. food supply.

EDIT: Jimmy, it's not just healthy (rather, the alternatives are unhealthy) but, IMHO, it tastes better -- especially the meat.