Eating organic foods help ward off cancer.

[Guest]

I gotta go with anger and stress .. Lord knows there is a lot of that in this harbor.

“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”

¯ Mark Twain

[PaulW]

All of my food is organic, is there any other kind?

"Organic" food on the other hand, I refuse to buy it or eat it. If the waiter asks for allergies, I say "organic" food. That usually gets a laugh, the professionals know the score.

Never had a serious illness.

[terracore]

"When I stand in line at the grocery store, people in line who buy organic or natural food usually have a cart full of food. Their purchases look like something our ancestors may have eaten, and what our bodies have evolved to metabolize and absorb most efficiently over tens of thousands of years."

When I check out at Walmart, 90%* of my cart is livestock feed. I bet the food on our plates looks a lot more like what our ancestors ate than those people with a cart full of soy drinks and "organic" food in little plastic containers. They do look cute loading up their groceries into their bunker-fuel powered "electric" vehicles though.

* (The other 10% is bacon, TP etc, and sundries.)

ETA: "Organic" is just labeling (read the regulations). Being close to your food is more important than buying a Prada label. There are very few exceptions where I will pay more for "organic" food. "Organic" food has unintended consequences, like for example you don't preemptively treat your chicken flock against a disease you know they are going to get because it's not "organic", so many of them get sick. Many of those die. Most of them suffer. THEN you are allowed to treat them under "organic" regulations. If you want chemical and cruelty-free chicken, the only way to get it is to raise it yourself or know the farmer.

[Guest]

sorry rob .. just had to .. Ron Swanson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXhJPey3i_A

[kalakoa]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/...first-time

The small study examined eight participants from Europe, Japan and Russia. All of their stool samples were found to contain microplastic particles.
Up to nine different plastics were found out of 10 varieties tested for, in particles of sizes ranging from 50 to 500 micrometres. Polypropylene and polyethylene terephthalate were the plastics most commonly found.
On average, 20 particles of microplastic were found in each 10g of excreta.

[SBH]

You are what you eat.

[ElysianWort]

Thanks for pointing that out Kalakoa! Definitely alarming and probably needs more attention. Lots of us are pooping plastic particles! That could be a thread title in itself?

Edited to add:

And RWR that was freakin' hilarious!

Note that even though you may find those veggie bacon thingies in a Health food store, that is not the healthy organic food I'm talking about. Generally that fakie bacon stuff is too heavily processed. Therefore unhealthy.

Think macrobiotic and organic if you want to know what my idea of healthy is. Leafy greens, carbohydrates like organic sweet potato or kalo and organically raised red meat or poultry.

[PaulW]

"A macrobiotic diet (or macrobiotics) is a fad diet fixed on ideas about types of food drawn from Zen Buddhism.[1][2] The diet attempts to balance the supposed yin and yang elements of food and cookware." (from Wikipedia)

Is anything too foolish for you?

[Guest]

Time to give it a rest paulw.. seriously. People should be able to post opinions or even beliefs without being stalked or having they posts cherry picked and discected to minutiea. The above is my opinion too.

[Guest]

Yeah i know rob . But this is ugly. Ew cannot even post without getting attacked.