10-23-2018, 01:30 PM
"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.
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.