Organic 🚜 🌽

Words that come to mind when I hear organic – scam, woke, silly, waste of money.

Organic food comes about around the idea that traditional agriculture, based on science and other principals does a bad job of caring for the land, that it uses too many chemicals and toxins that get into food. Not that there is a whole lot of truth to that, but the marketers certainly want you to believe it.

Truth is there is very little nutriental differences between organic and non-organic food. If anything, the high price of organic foods can discourage people from eating healthy foods. Indeed, it seems that often the organic label these days is used to market junk food, and other items that are unhealthy for a wide variety of reasons – to much saturated fat or added sugars. Or not enough fiber or protein to be healthy. That said, if somebody avoids buying too much of unhealthy things like organic red meat, because of the price in favor of lower cost vegatables, then I guess organic food becomes healthier.

In many cases, it’s pretty hard to tell a organic and non-organic farm from a photo or even driving by. People think organic agriculture doesn’t use pesticides or chemicals, but instead they use a different set of pesticides and chemicals. So much of what is organic is just a label – something quickly tossed in the trash and turned into smoke and flame. I do sometimes buy organic tofu, but that’s only because that’s what’s avalaible at the grocery store, not because I have a strong desire to pay extra.