People Eat Less Organic Food; Great Depression must be imminent
Have you seen the price of organic arugula at Whole Foods?
To stretch their food dollars, people are changing the way they shop. For some, that means buying fewer organic products or taking them off the shopping list entirely.
“Consumers are going from national brands to private labels and from more expensive produce, and that would include organics, to lower-priced produce,” he says.
Yep, and Hoovervilles are springing up at suburban farmers’ markets across the fruited plain! Weimar-Republic level inflation means we need to bring a Smith and Hawken wheelbarrow full of worthless scrip just to pay for a single shade-grown rambutan! Stockbrokers are jumping from windows and selling organic Braeburns on the streets of New York from flex-fuel hybrid apple carts!
What we need is a Messianic statist to nationalize the economy, pronto! But…wherever could we find someone like that in George Bush’s Amerikkka? Someone who represents hope, and change? And who understands our concerns?
(thanks again to Tennyson for that)
I just explained all this to my four-year old, who commented, “You know, life is tough.”
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You know if you look hard enough for a great depression, you will find one.
Don’t worry. Obama’s health-food squad will make sure we don’t dare try to save money by buying cheaper produce.
Man, I’m loving this new patriotism more and more… /sarcasm
Wouldn’t it be nice it everybody had the innate wisdom and sense of a four-year-old? Or would that be asking too much?
Its not like it hasn’t happened before.
Brilliant!
Maybe folks have decided that eating ‘organic food’ that is fertilized in Mexico with human waste is not really that good for you - let alone being worth higher prices.
Wisdom beyond his years c-dub. Very bright child.
You mean to tell me that the enviro-nitwit soccer moms who downsized from their Escalades to the new Prius aren’t spending their ‘green’ savings at Whole Foods? Tell me they actually had the nerve to invest or bank their tax incentive check rather than spend it on organic oatmeal and brown rice. Don’t tell me they figured out that the word ‘organic’ on food translates into ‘the license to overcharge snobs who fell compelled to have the upper hand with their peers’.
In an economy as stretched as it is now by rising fuel and transport costs, fad of overpriced produce will go the way of the ‘Chia-pet’
…in communist america, you don’t eat organic food….organic food eat YOU!
Whenever I see the label “organic” on products, I can’t help but visualizing Al Gore, and all the other climate change phoneys out there, profiteering on fear. That label is misleading and dishonest, as is Gore and the company he keeps.
Don’t think I’ve ever tried arugula. Heck, iceberg lettuce is splashing out for me - any money I have goes on taxes to feed criminals (the ones in jail AND the illegal alien ones), and to keep the politicians’ lunches healthy apparently (fat lot of good that seems to be doing).
Arugula again?
As an Italian American, I say again —
WILL YOU DAMN YUPPIES STAY AWAY FROM OUR FOOD!
Last night even Bill O’ was spewing the kool-aid drinkers refrain about we spoiled Americans using too much when we are so few. What a dope.
The only organic food that I eat is what either comes out of my garden or I buy from my friends at the local farmers market.
Of course none of that stuff actually has an “Organic” label affixed to it, so it’s about 80% cheaper.
When organic leaves tastes as good as a large pizza with pepperoni, hamburger, sausage and extra cheese, I’ll eat more organic leaves. Until then, I’ll stick with $20 pizza on Fridays.
I steer clear of organic I don’t like what they represent. Besides, with the way that everything is turned upside down these days many organics are probably grown by some hippies that recycle their human waste into the fields through a mickey mouse experimental apparatus. That would explain why many organics taste like $#!+.
Was it a mistake to get the huge bag of Dumpster Muffin Arugula at Costco? It was pretty cheap…
The same people that insist “organic” is better are the same people that believe in the hoax about man-made GW and climate change.
I believe that intelligence and rational thought have been suppressed. That feels depressing.
Out of the mouthes of babes….
I believe that intelligence and rational thought have been suppressed. That feels depressing.
Not suppressed, just thrown out the window.
AlohaGuy,
I don’t know about that but when I go into my local produce market I say real loud, got any stuff from Hawaii? They say, sure, but why Hawaii in particular? I tell them, it’s a long way off and it takes a lot of carbon to get it here. They ask, wont that contribute to GW? I say you bet, but I believe the world is getting colder so I’m just doing my part to keep it warm.
Can’t wait for the snow to arrive at North Shore.
Am I the only one who thinks that Obama-arugula jokes are lame and tired now? It was funny at first, but it’s just old now.
I still get a good chuckle out of them.
I’m surprised they have any. Most fuit has to be irradiated or dumped in hot water I think, to kill fruit flies - so we keep and eat all the mangos (heh). We do export a huge number of empty containers to China…
mmmmmmmm…..salmonella! Just a little added protein!
I guess thats the end of Organic Cat food as well. Poor things.
Aw c’mon guys. Don’t be reverse snobs. I like organically grown foods because they taste like food used to taste before everything was grown to survive long-distance shipping, flavor be damned.
I don’t buy anything that isn’t certified as organic by the state of California, which has very strict standards. A few years ago the big agri-complexes, seeing the money to be made in organic farming, muscled in on the business, lowering the standards in the process. So if something is labeled “organic” it ain’t necessarily so.
Caveat: Never buy produce that comes from Mexico, for the reason a couple of people have already stated.
In the old days there were produce checkpoints on every road at the Ca border but they don’t do that anymore. Can you imagine, we used to police the inner border for illegal produce now we can’t even secure our outer border. We already have the fruit fly invasion, along with fire ants, and killer bees so maybe they just don’t care anymore. That wouldn’t be unusual, the other day I heard a report that LAX was cleaning their restrooms with nothing but water as they cant afford genuine cleanser, bleech. Lately I have seen some bugs I have never seen before. One I identified as an asian tiger mosquito, big nasty thing, probably came over from China within the bamboo of a crate. Are you positive those containers are going to china it could be that ahnuld is importing them to store banned trans fats in. Others are still a mystery to me, they all seem to be big, well bigger than your average Ca bug, excepting lefties of course. Those Maui onions are some good ones, sweet, like I’ve never tasted.
You’re right about Mexico Little Ma, and don’t drink the water! But I suppose if you eat the fruit you are drinking the water in a roundabout way.
I’m all for organic but I usually just buy whatever is on sale and it’s usually just the staples. However, Whole Foods is nicknamed Whole Paycheck for a reason! I do most of my shopping at Trader Joe’s..much cheaper!
On July 17, 2008 at 3:39 pm, Marshall Russ said:
“The same people that insist “organic” is better are the same people that believe in the hoax about man-made GW and climate change.”
LOL! Honey, you sure don’t know me!
The problem with “Organics” is that for most people they are overpriced foods with the same nutritive value as the non-organics in my book…
Barack Obama gave $100,000 in state money to a campaign volunteer who failed to deliver on a plan to create a garden in one of Chicago’s most blighted neighborhoods. http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1050869,CST-NWS-garden11.article
Being a smart capitalist, I grow some of my own and I get great organic produce at great prices via consumer supported agriculture. Its win-win I support a local farmer and get good prices, and the farmer gets more for his goods then a wholesaler would pay.
Here’s a site where those interested can find out more.
http://www.localharvest.org/csa/
you know how much arugala could have been planted on that sight damn you BHO
I disagree. There are still plenty of these around.
Organic - what a hoax!
JT, thanks for the link.
I wish I could grow my own. There’s a little market, about a 30-minute drive from my house, that has good organic veggies and fruit from local farmers. The produce isn’t pretty but it sure tastes good.
I miss plain old white field corn. It’s almost impossible to find it any more - organic or not. It makes the best creamed corn. I don’t like sweet corn, no matter how it’s cooked. Guess all the field corn is being turned into an alternative fuel. Sigh!
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, cdub! My 8 year old assisted eith a yard sale today. In order to finance her new bike, it was necessary that she part with some of her beloved items, and squeeze fruit for the lemon-aid stand. Soup line can’t be far off!
We make it a point to never buy organic. I refuse to pay more for produce that doesn’t look or taste as good as the stuff that is allegedly bad for me. One hoax down now if only we could finally kill the “Gorebull Warming” fad.
Boomer,
The stuff I get looks and tastes great. And its costs less than the non-organic prices at the grocery store.
A lot of “corporate” organic is a hoax. But straight from the farm or out of my garden it isn’t.
That was the hilarity that I need at the end of a long day, thank you. I can’t stop cracking up.
Scientific studies have proven that ‘organic’ foods are not any healthier than other food, and indeed, may have more harmful bacteria and parasites. The amount of pesticides were not found to be lower, or higher. The fertilizers (artificial) were generally healthier than the ‘natural’ fertilizers. Finally, more acreage was required to grow organics, at a higher price, than regular crops.
Brother, can you spare an iPhone?
The arugula just won’t go away.
An editorial in the Houston Comical about the Pain of gas prices creating some gains and behavioral changes. Local gardeners talking about “keyhole gardens”. And the recommended crops?
I’d never even heard of arugula till Obama mentioned it.
What always cracks me up is the fact that “Organic” foods are so bad for the environment. You are NOT eating green if you eat “organic”. Here’s why, since they don’t use pesticides and good fertilizer, to get the same yield you have to plant MORE crops. By planting more crops, you must then water them with MORE fresh water. And since you’re using “organic” fertilizer (Ie, dung), you increase the risk of spreading disease.
So, organic means waste more land, waste more water, spread more disease. For something -I- couldn’t tell any difference in taste and the scientists say is no different nutritionally.
Gee, it’s almost like there’s a reason farmers and scientists invented chemical pesticides, fertilizers and genetically engineered crops.
As a side note, asking my geology professors about organic foods is a fun way to make them explode.
At some point one must consider what pesticides do to a body. I’ve done a lot of reading and decided I wasn’t going to put that in my body if I had a choice.
I pick and choose what I buy organic though so it doesn’t cost me much. I stick with sales which makes the prices competitive with the pesticide grown produce. A rule of thumb is anything that sits in or on the ground absorbs more pesticides than something that hangs.
It also is a fallacy that organic crops spread more disease. An awful lot of “contaminated” food recalls have been from pesticide food.
Some things you can’t see the immediate effect of. Case in point some people end up with lung cancer that do not smoke or are not even around smokers. It generally isn’t talked about but a lot of air fresheners have nasty things in them as well as some household cleaners. That stuff is sprayed nearly daily in some houses and does get into the lungs. Some people work at jobs where certain things get into the air and later they can develop lung disease. So one can’t say that pesticides aren’t bad for the body because they don’t see the immediate effect.