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Post by daylilydude on Jul 30, 2018 4:00:01 GMT -5
Do you buy organic produce at the store when you are not able to grow your own?
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Post by farmerjack41 on Jul 30, 2018 4:53:32 GMT -5
Yes, depending what it is. Certain produce is known to absorb pesticides greater than others.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2018 5:37:06 GMT -5
No, some of the allowed organic things are just as bad, in mho, as the conventional. Plus the organics here are priced quite high.
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Post by brownrexx on Jul 30, 2018 6:15:20 GMT -5
Yes, depending what it is. Certain produce is known to absorb pesticides greater than others. Same here. For example I always buy organic apples but don't worry about onions or carrots.
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Post by octave1 on Jul 30, 2018 7:58:26 GMT -5
Not necessarily. I buy organic apples because I like to eat them unpeeled. I also buy organic carrots and celery, both very affordable. This is about it.
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Post by paulf on Jul 30, 2018 9:05:31 GMT -5
I think organic is a marketing scam. I feel that the label "organic" is basically meaningless and overused or misused. We have always washed fruits and vegetables anyway. My opinion is that country of origin is more important than whether it is labelled organic. We forgo purchasing anything from Mexico or China.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Jul 30, 2018 9:43:26 GMT -5
Like others have said, it totally depends on what I'm buying and where I'm buying it. If I don't grow my own and it's this time of year, I like to find a farmstand. When I find that farmstand, I don't really care if it's organic or not, I'm happy to support my local farmer.
During the winter months, if it's in my budget I've been known to gravitate towards organic.
Local is more important to me though.
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Post by spike on Jul 30, 2018 9:44:30 GMT -5
I totally agree with paulf, Now we are fortunate that there is a cattle farm behind us, a chicken farm up the road, local butcher around the corner, MANY Amish farms and orchards also close by. We even get out Thanksgiving turkey from the Amish. Seriously goldfish crackers were recalled for botulism. That is why I garden, can and buy little at a grocery store. The older I get the more untrusting I become.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Jul 30, 2018 11:17:41 GMT -5
Apples, Carrots, & Berries I do.
Taders I don't worry about.
Like Paul said the country of origin is important as I've read some countries still use DDT.
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Post by brownrexx on Jul 30, 2018 11:45:45 GMT -5
I tend to agree with you guys about the country of origin HOWEVER didn't we have recent outbreaks of salmonella in eggs and e.coli in spinach and Romaine lettuce, and listeria in melons? All were grown in the USA.
I am not saying that buying organic would have prevented these outbreaks but I don't think that a product is necessarily safe just because it is produced here!
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Jul 30, 2018 12:58:21 GMT -5
I tend to agree with you guys about the country of origin HOWEVER didn't we have recent outbreaks of salmonella in eggs and e.coli in spinach and Romaine lettuce, and listeria in melons? All were grown in the USA. I am not saying that buying organic would have prevented these outbreaks but I don't think that a product is necessarily safe just because it is produced here! Oh yeah, I'm sure if we were a fly on the wall and saw half the stuff that is done to our food, we wouldn't eat nothing. LAUGHIN! i was reading an article several years ago about the acceptable amount of rat feces that are allowed in peanut butter. My thoughts were "none", but apparently so many PPM are perfectly acceptable. It seems we can send a man to the moon, but keeping rat crap out of peanut butter is impossible. Go figure.
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Post by Gianna on Jul 30, 2018 14:22:03 GMT -5
I try to buy as little produce as possible, esp when I have good stuff in the yard. I'd prefer to eat zucchini or tomatoes for a few days running as opposed to buying a different store veggie - organic or not - just for variety.
I've been skeptical of 'organic' grocery items for years. Sorry to say, when you can charge more for an item with a specific label on it, there is greater possibility for deceit. And if it comes from another country - forget it. Each country makes up it's own rules for what they can consider 'organic'. The older I get, the less I trust people when it comes to telling the truth.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Jul 30, 2018 14:32:26 GMT -5
Why tell the truth when a good lie will do. Laughing.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Jul 30, 2018 15:26:35 GMT -5
I buy Organic when the price is reasonable. I can buy organic apples locally that aren't Certified but they are chemical free. I prefer Organic strawberries because they are one of the worst pesticide laden crops according to the Environmental Working Group, as are the aforementioned apples.
Otherwise it really depends on price and where it comes from.
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Post by september on Jul 30, 2018 16:50:16 GMT -5
I think organic is a marketing scam. I feel that the label "organic" is basically meaningless and overused or misused. We have always washed fruits and vegetables anyway. My opinion is that country of origin is more important than whether it is labelled organic. We forgo purchasing anything from Mexico or China.
I don't see that there can possibly be enough federal or industry inspectors out there to see that organic guidelines are being followed 100% of the time in the whole chain of production, field through to packing and labeling and sale in the store. Who's to know when and where the organic labels are stuck on. One would like to think that people are honest, but past experience has shown that when there is an extra buck to be made, and little chance of being caught .......... yeah, I'm a skeptic.
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Post by Gianna on Jul 30, 2018 17:42:53 GMT -5
I do think there are a good number of really good organic growers out there. But when one has a mortgage payment to make, and the worms are in the corn, and your customers like things unblemished...
I've seen expose type programs that follow so-called Farmer's Market sellers, not necessarily claiming to be organic, back to their wholesale sources, and they are not actually selling what they are supposed to be growing themselves. If there is deceit in this, there will be deceit in organic labels at Farmers' Markets. All it takes is a magic marker, an index card, and writing out 7 letters to get, what?, a 30% increase in profits? And no realistic way for the ordinary customer to really tell.
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Post by whistech on Jul 30, 2018 22:11:57 GMT -5
I agree with Paul and I don't buy organic anything other than milk and that is because the use buy date on the half gallon cartons of organic milk where I live is at least 30 to 40 days away from the time I buy it. I have found the milk to still be drinkable at least 10 days past the use by date.
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