You know what I hate? When grocery stores don't give you the option of going non-organic. I'm a little iffy about the whole organic thing. I mean, yeah, pesticides suck but gross chemicals are everywhere. It's in the water, the air, clothes, carpets, shampoos, blah blah blah. It's environmental benefit is dubious at best. Yeah, pesticide is bad for the environment, but you know what's worse? All the CO2's being released into the air from shipping organic. That pestiside ridden apple might be from New York, that organic apple might be from Oregon or Washington State. I read that most organic milk isn't even from this country. There aren't enough hormone free cows in the US to meet the demand so a lot of it is from Europe where they process the organic milk into powder form and the powder is turned back into milk here in the US. Sure it's organic but it's not really what you think of when you think of organic...
I'm guessing grocery stores make more money off of organic. Sometimes it's hard to find non-organic at Trader Joe. I usually don't mind 'cause Trader Joe's organic produce don't cost that much more than non-organic at other grocers. Still, I can't help but think if they offered non-organic, I bet it would be cheaper. At Wegmans, I think they go out of their way to make regular produce seem unappealing. I needed to buy some zuchinnis. Regulars were $1.50 a lb, organics were $3. The organic zucchinis looked beautiful- green, shiny, blemish free- perfect. The regulars... oh my goodness, they looked like Wegmans dished them out of a garbage bin behind some restaurant. And you know, that pissed me off. So, my options were: A syphilitic looking zucchini at a fair price or a healthy looking one for double the price?!
Anyhoo... surprisingly, if you can't afford to go full on organic, you should go with organic ketchup. Huh. Ketchup.
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tomatoes are actually one of the most important things to have as organic because they totally mutate non-organic tomatoes and they have the worst amount of pesticides etc. added to them, so the ketchup thing makes sense...
the organic label does suck...
don't ever go fully organic, it's a pointless waste of money to do it with certain things, like grains, where it doesn't really matter...
natural/organic is important for meat products & produce (but not things with thick skins like bananas and oranges)...
the word organic is trendy
you should go local and natural...
you should probably move to oregon or washington state
or just eat local virginia food, most things travel so so far regardless...
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