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.

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.

On July 17th, 2008 at 3:53 pm, MCGusto said:

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?

Gary Edmondson, Urban Harvest’s education director, suggests that Houston’s early adopters try arugula, yard long beans and suyu cucumbers right now.

I’d never even heard of arugula till Obama mentioned it.

…and selling organic Braeburns on the streets of New York from flex-fuel hybrid apple carts!

Brother, can you spare an iPhone?

Was it a mistake to get the huge bag of Dumpster Muffin Arugula at Costco? It was pretty cheap…

That was the hilarity that I need at the end of a long day, thank you. I can’t stop cracking up.

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.

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!

Silkyinfamous said: I guess thats the end of Organic Catfood.

I disagree. There are still plenty of these around.

Here’s a site where those interested can find out more.

http://www.localharvest.org/csa/